Clint Boulton

IBM Lotusphere will kick off in earnest Jan. 18, with thousands of high-tech customers, partners, press and analysts flocking to Orlando to discuss the state of collaboration software viewed through the Big Blue lens. More than 145 million corporate employees are using IBM’s Lotus Notes e-mail software, which is now used in more than half […]

Google Jan. 14 launched a reseller program to let technology providers sell and support its Google Apps Premier Edition suite of collaboration applications to other businesses, a sign that the cloud computing ecosystem is maturing in the enterprise. The GAPE reseller program has actually been live for several quarters for 50 pilot partners, including IT […]

“Yahoo is fundamentally sound. All it needs is someone who kicks some ass. The stories that I read about her from her previous job, I think she is the person to do that.” That comment was told me by an industry analyst, who in talking about Yahoo’s appointment of Carol Bartz as CEO yesterday asked […]

The rumors proved true and former Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz was picked to succeed Yahoo founder Jerry Yang as CEO for the beleaguered Internet company Jan. 13, the latest step in the company’s turnaround plan.Bartz was CEO for Autodesk, a computer-aided design software maker, for 14 years, where she boosted sales from less than $300 […]

Google Pitches GAPE to Resellers by Clint Boulton How the Program Works Google provides sales and marketing, product training, support and other tools to resellers, which can market and promote GAPE to customers, setting commercial terms and billing them directly. Resellers Can Provide Services Services may include, but are not limited to, e-mail and data […]

Two weeks into the New Year and it’s time to dispense with the niceties and get back to corporate bashing on Capitol Hill. The Center for Digital Democracy and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG) asked the Federal Trade Commission to scrutinize and halt mobile advertising practices that may be violating the privacy of […]

My peers fell all over themselves to cover the tweet that del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter is joining Google after leaving Yahoo in June. Schachter confirmed the news. Read the blitz of briefs on TechMeme here. What’s the surprise that a talented programmer left Yahoo for another Web services power in Silicon Valley? Criminy! Stop the […]

Think back a week, a month, a year or almost five years ago to when you started using Facebook or MySpace. It seemed like such a harmless, simple social transaction as you were friended by a friend, colleague or significant other. Folks, it’s not so simple anymore because a lot more is at stake. Facebook […]

A Harvard University physicist told the Times that executing two Google searches on a computer can generate almost the same amount of CO2 (carbon dioxide) as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea.A search generates about 7 grams of CO2, while boiling a kettle of water generates about 15 grams, concluded Alex Wissner-Gross, the […]

While Web services providers are still hashing out how to securely open up their walled gardens to let their users share data with other Web sites, Google extended this notion to bloggers, an integral part of the Web 2.0 ecosystem.Google Jan. 9 unveiled the Google Blog Converters project, an open-source effort to let bloggers shuttle […]

Matt Cutts, who appears omnipresent online and rarely misses a chance to defend Google’s honor, is at it again. I’m beginning to wonder if he isn’t running a 20 percent time project in the metaphysics of good versus evil corporations when he isn’t cracking down on Google search gamers and entertaining ideas on how to […]

Google’s Chrome Web browser, which the company launched from beta Dec. 11, on Jan. 8 released a developer-driven version of build 2.0 with a new version of WebKit and a long-sought-after form autocomplete feature.Officially billed as build 2.0.156.1, the version has all of the code changes from the main line of the source code since […]