Clint Boulton

Google and Microsoft compete in search, cloud computing and Web services, but their battles extend from boardroom bargaining with customers to the nation’s capitol. Google spent $4 million on lobbying in 2009, up from $2.84 million in 2008 and almost three times the $1.52 million it spent in 2007, according to figures compiled by the […]

IBM Feb. 4 said it has upgraded its free Lotus Symphony productivity suite, adding several features that make its word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications work with Microsoft documents. The entire code for Lotus Symphony 3 has been rebased on the current OpenOffice.org 3 code stream, which has enabled IBM’s programmers to add several capabilities, […]

Google is making its Google Apps suite more attractive to businesses that let their workers access their company data from the road, a growing trend thanks to the rise of smartphones equipped with full HTML browsers. Beginning Feb. 4, IT administrators who license Google Apps Premier and Education Edition will be able to dictate security […]

Facebook, which turned six years old today and has some 400 million users, is a major player in the way people consume news all around the world. That was the premise of a Feb. 1 post by ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick, who wrote in reaction to Facebook’s suggestion that users become fans of news organizations that […]

SAPs 12Sprints Collaboration Platform Could Challenge Google Wave by Clint Boulton 12Sprints Activity Users create an activity, which they will invite other users to join and fill with discussions and projects. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions … Users add a decision method to an activity to let the team know the decisions they’re being invited to discuss. […]

Google Wave has been in the wild for months, and Google has confirmed to me that more than 1 million people are actively using it. But enterprise adoption of Wave may well be predicated on how many extensions are built for the open source Wave platform that will help knowledge workers better collaborate. Wrike.com, which […]

Thanks to the influence of Facebook and Twitter, social network services may usurp e-mail as the main method for communications among 20 percent of all business workers, one of five social software predictions issued by Gartner analysts Feb. 2. Gartner’s Matt Cain said the rigid distinction between e-mail and social networks will erode by 2014, […]

Fresh pictures of Google’s Chrome Operating System running on a tablet computer are dominating high-tech talk today. Here’s a glimpse: People are anxious to see what Chrome OS can do. Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at Google, said Chrome OS is slated to appear on netbooks first in the November-December 2010 timeframe. There’s […]

Google Shows Off Chrome OS Tablet Mockup Google Chrome OS Running on a TabletBy Clint Boulton Chrome OS on a Tablet Google’s search engine sits above a virtual keyboard on this Chrome OS tablet to let people access the Web. Chrome Functionality Chrome functionality comes to life on the touch screen. Minimize Minimize the virtual […]

Google is adding a multitouch mechanism and a software fix to improve 3G connectivity on its Nexus One smartphone, fulfilling two of the most common customer requests from the device since the company began selling it one month ago. Google on Feb. 2 said it has begun pushing multitouch and other software updates over the […]

Google is expected to augment its existing applications store to let third-party developers sell software that hooks into its collaboration applications, according to the Wall Street Journal. Google Apps is a suite of SAAS (software as a service) applications the search engine offers in free and paid versions to let users create content and share […]

Google’s Chrome Web browser continued to gain market share through the first month of 2010, garnering 5.2 percent of the worldwide browser market, up from 4.63 percent in December 2009. This new data comes from researcher Net Applications: While Chrome share gains have in the past seemed to come at the expense of Microsoft Internet […]