Clint Boulton

Exalead is now reselling its enterprise search platform in an OEM capacity. The company Jan. 27 will unveil CloudView OEM Edition 5.0, the latest version of its platform for helping businesses search and organize structured and unstructured information.Enterprise search and information management are unheralded but necessary functions for businesses looking to corral copious amounts of […]

When IBM unveiled Salesforce.com as an integration partner for its forthcoming LotusLive suite of software-as-a-service collaboration enterprise applications at Lotusphere Jan. 19, the move was a bit of a head-scratcher for some who closely watch the cloud computing space.LotusLive includes Web conferencing, social networking, messaging and other tools to help enterprise users work together on […]

Google and NYC & Company, the official marketing, tourism and partnership organization for New York City, have partnered on a new local information Web site. Nycgo.com is a sort of what’s happening hub for tourists and adventurous locals to find hotels, restaurants, stores, theater and other stuff in the city’s five boroughs. In a proud […]

IBM unveiled LotusLive notes Jan. 19 and with that brand change obliterated the amorphous sounding Bluehouse moniker. What is LotusLive? LotusLive is the brand name for meeting, messaging and collaboration applications IBM intends to deliver to partners, who will in turn put them in front of their customers as a SAAS (software as a service) […]

Despite the spending dearth of the recession and reports that search advertising spending is down, Google Jan. 22 reported net income of $382 million on earnings per share of $1.21 for the fourth quarter of 2008. While this profit figure was down 68 percent from the $1.29 billion on EPS of $4.06 from the third […]

Granular Collaboration in IBM Innovation Labs at Lotusphere 2009 by Clint Boulton Vegemite No, it’s not that sandwich spread, but IBM hopes Vegemite will one day stick in Lotus as an application that lets users mash up data on multiple Web sites by pointing and clicking to move data from a Web page to a […]

IBM’s Lotus collaboration software continues to find purchase on mobile devices, as IBM announced sdeals with network operators Verizon and Orange and phone maker Samsung Jan. 21 to support Lotus Notes Traveler software on their mobile phones.Lotus Notes Traveler is the mobile device counterpart to IBM’s Lotus Notes desktop e-mail software. Traveler is an alternative […]

It was just before Christmas when nary a high-tech news mouse was stirring except for reports of an alleged T-Mobile G2 smartphone, the follow-up to the carrier’s G1 based on Google’s Android mobile operating system. Myth or reality? We didn’t know, but thanks to Gizmodo we have what is, again allegedly, pictures of the G2, […]

Google yesterday put the kibosh on its two-year-old program to sell ads in newspapers such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Time and The Chicago Tribune, among others. Marked for death Feb. 28, Google Print Ads started with 50 newspapers in November 2006 and grew to as many as 800 newspapers in the […]

One company’s wasted time is another’s opportunity. One week after Google said it was stopping work on its Google Notebook content repository application, rival AdventNet’s Zoho Jan. 21 said it had added an option to let users import their Google Notebook content to Zoho Notebook.As the name implies, Zoho Notebook is Zoho’s own SAAS (software […]

Wired has a well-researched piece on how Microsoft, AT&T, consumer rights groups and grandmothers (just kidding… Or am I?) are gunning for Google. It’s an exhausting four-page spread, which reads as epic online, but if you like stories that highlight sleazeball lobbying and pandering to win an argument, this is for you. Hint: There’s lots […]

Highlights of Lotusphere 2009 by Clint Boulton Blue Man Group Plays for Big Blue Crowd Blue Man Group drums out its own tune, getting the Lotusphere audience pumped to discuss serious SAAS (software as a service) collaboration. Dan Aykroyd Yes, that’s Aykroyd, who came on stage doing his Beldar Conehead impression, which may have been […]