Kenneth Corbin

Facebook Tuesday confirmed that it is preparing to further open its platform so that third-party developers will be able to create applications using its source code that will run on other environments. Facebook’s move toward open source follows a flurry of announcements from Web companies — itself included — talking up openness initiatives that would […]

MySpace is emerging the winner of a $230 million judgment against a spammer in what’s believed to be the largest antispam case ever. The ruling came after defendants Sanford Wallace — the notorious and self-appointed “Spam King” — and Walter Rines failed to appear in the U.S. District Court in the Central District of California […]

Google Friend Connect Source: Google Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has picked up the banner of the social Web by launching an initiative to bring features commonly found on social networks to Web sites of all kinds. Released in a limited preview, Google Friend Connect will enable Web sites to integrate social features such as blogging and […]

Thermal analysis tests “Green” configurations of iDataPlex. The right side of this picture shows an iDataPlex rack that has been so optimized. Source: IBM IBM (NYSE: IBM) has unveiled a new type of low-energy server designed to meet the power consumption crush straining the datacenters of the larger Internet companies. The announcement of the iDataPlex […]

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang Source: Reuters Web portal giant Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) reported solid first-quarter results, coming during a time of great uncertainty for the Internet pioneer as it faces a takeover bid from Microsoft. The company posted $1.35 billion in net revenue (excluding traffic acquisition costs), a 14 percent increase from the same period […]

Google yesterday took the wraps off a new hosted software platform offering developers access to Google’s scalable infrastructure. The company’s App Engine service — which will be offered free to developers during a preview period — includes a software development kit, enabling developers to write Web applications and upload them to the company’s servers for […]

IBM planned to announce Wednesday that it will bring the latest version of its portal software to the market this quarter — a release that aims to satisfy what it sees as a growing need for Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise. WebSphere Portal 6.1 is a refresh of IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) current portal offering, […]

Though it didn’t win any licenses in the Federal Communications Commission’s recent multi-billion-dollar spectrum auction, Google said it is pleased with the results — and vows to continue pressing for greater network openness. The comments come as the first from the online giant following the end of a federally mandated quiet period that now leaves […]

A lot of industry heavyweights are chasing the Enterprise 2.0 market, but a small, fast-growing company called Jive Software thinks it’s got the inside track. Today Jive plans to launch Clearspace 2.0, a significantly overhauled version of its “social productivity platform” designed to introduce social features like blogging, wikis and collaborative project management into the […]

NEW YORK — Listening to a keynote about how the The Wall Street Journal has adapted to the onset of a Google-driven Internet leaves the impression of a reluctantly evolving hominid marching into the future, dragging behind it a formula from another century. Speaking here at the Search Engine Strategies conference, Gordon McLeod, president of […]