Clint Boulton

I love it when old stories resurface like so many TV spin-offs and movie sequels. Rumors that Google is creating a Web browser are again afoot thanks to some healthy speculation from Netconcepts Search Strategist Chris Silver Smith. Smith theorized that the search engine may be cooking up the ole Gbrowser after reading Ryan Naraine’s […]

AT&T doesnt usually come to mind with regard to storage innovation, but the company said it has come up with a way to let businesses tap into a storage-area network using optical technology. The telecommunications service provider has created storage software interfaces that let businesses efficiently tap into SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) rings, a type […]

A lot is being made in the high-tech press about Google pulling the plug on Google Video. The site itself isn’t going the way of the dodo bird — it’s the download-to-rent/download-to-own feature Google has been fooling around with that will disappear starting tomorrow. For those who haven’t heard, users will no longer be able […]

Customer satisfaction and financial results may not always be in step. One sign: Yahoo placed ahead of Google in the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), which measures customers opinions about products and services in the United States. The report comes as search engine portals Google and Yahoo, along with Microsoft and to a lesser degree […]

VMwares initial public offering may be getting the lions share of attention, but it isnt the only vendor to buck up the courage to go public. Storage startup EqualLogic has registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for its own initial public offering of common stock. The moves comes as the explosion in data […]

In a continuation of what it calls its quest to make ad serving as pain-free as possible for its customers, Google said it is testing new privacy features designed to make using Google safer for third-party advertisers. The experiment comes as the European Union is criticizing the search engine vendor and rivals Yahoo, Microsoft and […]