Clint Boulton

ORLANDO — IBM is adding a Twitter-like tool, a new home page, its own wiki software and other features for the next version of its Lotus Connections social software for businesses.Lotus Connections is a suite of profile, blog, activity, social bookmarking and community tools that help business workers connect with colleagues regardless of where they’re […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-Bluehouse, the software as a service that IBM hosts for companies to connect their end users, was renamed LotusLive Engage and given some quick credibility with the integration of business partners Salesforce.com, Skype and LinkedIn at Lotusphere Jan. 19.When it officially launches in the first quarter, Engage will be the first of many integrated […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie celebrated the 10th anniversary of the company’s BlackBerry mobile communication devices by unveiling new tools to help IBM Lotus become more valuable to BlackBerry users seeking to tap into their enterprise data from the road.Speaking at Lotusphere Jan. 19, Balsillie said RIM has created a new BlackBerry client […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-Atlantic, the joint enterprise application initiative IBM and SAP announced last year, is coming to life this March as Alloy, IBM officials said at Lotusphere 2009 here Jan. 19.Alloy mashes up IBM Lotus Notes e-mail and collaboration software with SAP Business Suite, allowing enterprises to access SAP reports and analytics, procurement, data, and product […]

So Microsoft is again being called to the anti-competitive carpet by the European Commission (Wall Street Journal pay wall), this time over the bundling of its Internet Explorer browser with its Windows operating system. Shocking. In a piece detailing how Microsoft and the EC got to this point, my Microsoft Watch colleague Joe Wilcox points […]

Toward the end of 2008, Google’s Android mobile operating system was flying high. Reports were coming in from all corners of the world that handset makers and phone carriers were busy planning prototypes of smartphones based on the OS. Sprint warmed to Android while Motorola is reportedly planning to bow down to the Android altar, […]

Yahoo last year created SearchMonkey, a bid to open up its vaunted search platform to let programmers add additional context and visual improvements to the results.SearchMonkey, the first leg of Yahoo’s Open Strategy that rewires Yahoo’s Web services to provide users an irresistible experience, got a boost Jan. 15 when Yahoo said it has turned […]

While venture capitalist and private equity companies are moving away from entrepreneurs seeking funds to get their startups through the recession, a couple of investors are rewarding one young startup that is just hitting its stride.Software startup InsideView Jan. 15 said it banked $6.5 million in a second round financing from its current investors Emergence […]

Software-as-a-service pioneer Salesforce.com introduced Service Cloud Jan. 15, an approach to customer service that leverages Google search, Facebook social networking and other services for its hosted software customers.Service Cloud was created from the assets of the hosted CRM software provider’s $31.5 million purchase of InStranet. Customer services agents in companies such as 3M, Comcast and […]

Two weeks into the new year and the “dark matter” projects Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the company would eliminate have continued to come to the fore, paired with the layoff of 100 recruiters and the move of 70 engineers to other facilities.After shuttering its Lively virtual reality, SearchMash and Research DataSets late last year, […]

The number of monthly unique visitors for Google’s Gmail Web mail application grew a great 43 percent in 2008 to 29.6 million, according to TechCrunch’s Erik Schonfeld, cobbled new stats from comScore, and noted: In contrast, the much more massive Yahoo Mail grew 11 percent to 91.9 million uniques. AOL Mail finished in second place […]