Computer applications float in Internet cloud

September 26, 2008

When Merlin Mann is on the go and needs to access his computer information he steps into the cloud. Mann, a 41-year-old technology blogger, is one of thousands of Americans who are shunning packaged software in favor of programs served up as services available on the Internet.

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