Clint Boulton

Google faces high expectations for its fourth quarter earnings Jan. 21, as the consensus among Thomson Reuters analysts pegs the search engine to post $6.45 per share and $4.9 billion in sales on the strength of a strong holiday shopping season. So confident are financial analysts in Google’s Q4 performance that Piper Jaffray analyst Gene […]

IBM’s Lotus Connections software, which company officials said will be a key backbone of Big Blue’s Project Vulcan, is getting several upgrades as it speeds towards a fourth version of its release, an IBM executive told eWEEK at Lotusphere 2010 Jan. 19. Scheduled for delivery in the second half of 2010, Lotus Connections Next (essentially […]

Google’s fourth-quarter earnings and sales trumped analysts’ expectations Jan. 21, with the search engine reporting a fourth-quarter 2009 profit of $1.97 billion, or $6.13 a share. The profit hike for the fourth quarter of 2009 was roughly five times that of the same quarter one year ago, when Google tallied $382 million on earnings of […]

If Microsoft and Apple are conspiring to make Bing the default search engine on Apple’s iPhone, it could put a fly in the thick ointment that is Google’s search engine and overall online dominance. That is, if you believe it. Do you believe it? If you do, then maybe you choose to believe hell is […]

Lotusphere 2010 Opens, Closes with Shatner, Project Vulcan Lotusphere 2010 Opens, Closes with Shatner, Project Vulcan By Clint Boulton Beam Him Up None other than William Shatner kicked off the festivities at the 17th annual Lotusphere event. His message was that collaboration is a means of opening doors, not that it’s the final frontier. Lotus […]

Google Jan. 19 said it has improved the way its search engine understands synonyms, a big step in the company’s effort to make its search services think more like humans, or artificial intelligence, in the parlance of the computing industry. Parsing synonyms is something that search engine startups such as Hakia, Yebol and Microsoft’s Powerset […]

IBM will release its Lotus Notes Traveler for Android application sometime in the second half of 2010, but the company is not sure whether it will charge for the Android application, an IBM official told eWEEK Jan. 19. Lotus Notes Traveler for Android will let mobile road workers synchronize and view their mail, calendar and […]

In the wake of the force 7.0 earthquake in Haiti last week, Google has donated $1 million, solicited donations from the public through its home page, offered satellite imagery via Google Earth and offered free calls to Haiti via Google Voice. Today, Google continued to build out its Haiti earthquake crisis response Website with the […]

Spigit, a startup whose social networking application helps enterprise employees work together on specific goals, is moving downstream. The company Jan. 19 launched WE by Spigit for SMBs of 500 employees or less to work on specific projects within the Spigit construct, which ranks contributors’ reputations. Spigit users create a community and begin contributing ideas, […]

That didn’t take long. Just two days after I explored the effect Google’s potential departure from China would have on the Android ecosystem, Reuters, the Associated Press and others said Google has postponed the launch of two Android phones. The AP wrote: ““It is postponed,” Google Inc. spokeswoman Marsha Wang said. She said a launch […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-There’s been a lot of discussion about IBM’s Project Vulcan, the next-generation collaboration platform the company demonstrated here at Lotusphere Jan. 18. How does one describe Project Vulcan? Yes, it looked like Facebook and business intelligence rolled into one. Some initially speculated that Vulcan is IBM’s answer to Google Wave. But it became apparent […]

Motorola Jan. 17 launched in Korea the Motoroi, a new smartphone based on Version 2.0 of Google’s Android operating system that combines some of the features of the successful Motorola Droid and Google’ new Nexus One smartphone. The device, supported by SK Telecom in Korea, boasts Motorola’s touch user interface and a capacitive touch sensor […]