from PC World by Marc Ferranti, IDG News Service The Great Recession cast a shadow on all sectors of the economy in 2009. IT fared better than most, however, and the slump did not curb the dynamic nature of the industry. Acquisitions among big vendors continued to reshape the market, operating-system wars extended to mobile battlefields, microblogging became a powerful source of real-time information, [...]

Nowadays Internet has blend into our life. The Internet almost cover every aspect in our life from commerce, communication, politics and pop culture. The Webby Awards list of the top 10 most influential Internet moment of the decade. Craiglist online classified site expands outside San Francisco (200) The launch of Google AdWords The launch of online encyclopedia Wikipedia (2000) The shutdown of [...]

by Mark Walsh Google’s proposed $750 million acquisition of AdMob looks at first glance like a move sure to extend its online ad dominance to the mobile realm. But Google isn’t the first major Internet player to gobble up a mobile ad network to gain an early advantage in the space. In 2007, AOL bought Third Screen Media and Microsoft acquired European-based mobile ad company Screen Tonic. As [...]

by Eric Zeman Over the weekend, Sprint and a number of other companies agreed to invest another $1.5 billion into Clearwire, the growing provider of WiMax services. Notably absent on the list of financiers was Google, which has previously given cash to Clearwire. Clearwire needs more cash to continue building out and operating its slowly expanding WiMax network across the U.S. Sprint, its major investor, [...]

by Michael Arrington Last month Skype was in talks to acquire VoIP startup Gizmo5. It was a perfect backup plan in case all that IP litigation didn’t work out. Gizmo5′s SIP infrastructure could theoretically replace Skype’s proprietary P2P back end. After the Skype settlement, though, Gizmo5′s strategic value to Skype sort of plummeted. In the meantime, Google bought them, [...]