Clint Boulton

IBM Jan. 18 used its Lotusphere 2010 conference as the launching pad for several mobile-related announcements, including the first applications for Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android platforms and social networking apps on RIM-based smartphones. Big Blue today released Lotus Notes Traveler Companion, its first application for the Apple iPhone App Store. Companion is a free […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-IBM Jan. 18 said it is working on a new effort to add social analytics to its Lotus collaboration software portfolio to help businesses filter out some of the noise in their social networks. Dubbed Project Vulcan, the initiative will appear in a developer environment beta in the second half of 2010 from LotusLive […]

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” is certainly a formula that can be applied to Google and Verizon Wireless’ approach to the Federal Communications Commission on network neutrality, the rules that prescribe that Internet providers treat all data equally. This is the specter that hovers over any company trafficking in digital data. Google […]

News Analysis: In the days that followed Google’s threat to cease operations in China after it discovered some Gmail accounts had been hacked, many experts mulled what effect the search engine’s exit from the country would have on its search business. Some look at Google’s current search market share and search revenues in China and […]

Google Jan. 15 pared the price of its Nexus One smartphone by $100 for existing T-Mobile subscribers, an olive branch for customers angered by dual early termination fees and sluggish customer service. Google sells the Nexus One sans wireless service for $529, or with a two-year service plan from T-Mobile. However, existing T-Mobile subscribers with […]

Google continues to fine-tune the fusion of location with its mobile Web services. The search engine Jan. 14 began offering search suggestions based on the current or last location of a user’s mobile phone. Using search suggestions is an efficient way of searching Google on Android-based smartphones and Apple’s iPhone. The user starts typing a […]

Twitter’s sphere of influence is growing abroad. The number of unique Twitter users has declined in the United States but grown overseas since June, particularly in Brazil, Indonesia and Germany. This finding comes from new stats compiled by social media researchers at Sysomos. Sysomos, which based its results on 13 million unique and active Twitter […]

Researcher comScore Jan. 15 said Google and Microsoft grabbed more U.S. search market share from Yahoo in December, with Bing ascending to its greatest search share since August 2007. Google, which earlier this week threatened to close its search operations in China, rose to 65.7 percent from 65.6 percent in November 2009. But Bing, which […]

When IBM revealed Jan. 14 that it had landed Panasonic as a new customer for its LotusLive collaboration software, it said it was partially replacing Microsoft’s Exchange e-mail platform at the Japanese electronics maker. Microsoft fought back Jan. 15, offering training vouchers to the first 500 Lotus Notes professionals who want to learn to use […]

The earthquake in Haiti, which notched a terrible 7.0 magnitude, had drastic consequences for the country and affected lives everywhere. Google, always socially conscious, took several steps to provide relief, as eWEEK noted here. The No. 1 search engine is promoting help relief on its homepage, the most valuable piece of real estate online: The […]

IBM has landed a major customer for its cloud computing initiative in Panasonic Corporation, with 150,000 employees of the Japanese electronics maker using IBM’s LotusLive hosted, Web-based collaboration software. When fully deployed this year, it could be the largest SAAS (software as a service) implementation ever. Panasonic employees will use LotusLive applications for e-mail, Web […]

Google executives spent precious hours in 2009 defending Google from the perceptions of its being evil, whether it was against claims that it freezes out publishers from earning revenues or builds so many new Web services that the long tail can’t possibly compete. Just two weeks into 2010, Google may have dispelled some of those […]