Clint Boulton

IBM July 15 said it is adding instant messaging, VOIP, file transfer and several more options to its Lotus Foundations appliance, a Linux-based collaboration server the company makes for its business partners to sell small to midsize businesses. IBM next month will offer Lotus Foundations Reach for $70 per user for existing customers of the […]

Xobni has seen more than 2 million downloads since it was made available a year ago, and now the executives behind the Microsoft Outlook search plug-in feel the tool is ready to go commercial. Xobni, which users have installed for free to help manage the contacts and various e-mail threads in their Outlook inbox accounts, […]

Google Voice, which lets users route calls to their home, office and mobile phones via a single phone number, is in the process of rolling out to select invitees in the United States. But the Google Voice programmers aren’t resting on their laurels during the roll out. Google Voice product managers Vincent Paquet and Craig […]

Microsoft impressed some folks in the blogosphere when it configured its Bing search engine to index Twitter tweets two weeks ago. While Google and Yahoo weigh whether or not to index tweets, Microsoft moved to press its real-time search advantage with BingTweets, which fuses Bing search results and Twitter content. Microsoft partnered with media publisher […]

Google and the cloud computing model were the victims of some jibes from popular blog TechCrunch in the wake of a personal e-mail account hack at Twitter. The attack, centered on the security of Google Apps’ password system, rekindled the debate about whether it is safe for businesses to use the Internet to store sensitive […]

Corporate employees may fritter away nearly 1.5 percent of their office productivity by using Facebook at work, according to a new study from Nucleus Research. The research company interviewed 237 randomly selected office workers about their Facebook use and also found that the social network is being used as an alternative e-mail platform to Outlook […]

Google is proud to announce Tasks as the first graduate from its Gmail Labs experimental workshop, as well as the launch of Google Calendar Labs today. First, the Tasks graduation. The Gmail Labs group in December 2008 launched Gmail Tasks, a task management tool that lets users keep track of their agendas. Tasks pops up […]

Businesses whose IT administrators are searching for ways to keep employees off Twitter and Facebook have a new ally in Socialtext. The Socialtext Microblogging Appliance is designed to let businesses enable their employees to use the Signals enterprise microblogging tool and People social networking application on an appliance running behind the corporate firewall. The move […]

Google continued its assault on the e-mail incumbents July 14, introducing a new database program to help users of the popular IBM Lotus Notes e-mail application move their mail, calendar and contacts to Google’s Gmail application. Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes is actually a native Notes application, meaning it installs like a Lotus Notes […]

Google will report second quarter earnings July 16 after the market closes, with many analysts expecting the search engine giant to post a solid quarter in the face of the lumbering economy. Google does not provide financial guidance, though analysts from Thomson Reuters said they expect Google to notch $5.06 per share on sales of […]

We who follow SAAS suites have been waiting several months for Office Web, which Microsoft first introduced at its Professional Developers Conference in October 2008. We’ve wanted to know how it will stack up against Google Apps, Zoho, Adobe and other comparable collaboration suites in the cloud. We’re still waiting because although Microsoft released Office […]

Microsoft July 13 charged across the battle line Google, Zoho and other Web-based collaboration software makers drew with Office Web applications, browser-based versions of the company’s word processing, presentation, spreadsheet and note-taking applications. The Office Web suite includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote, and is a key subset of Office 2010, which Microsoft released to […]