Clint Boulton

1. Microsoft Bids for YahooIn high tech’s biggest story of the year, Microsoft Jan. 31 offered to buy the struggling Yahoo for $44.6 billion. The deal would give Microsoft the No. 2 position in search and enable it to challenge Google on the Internet. Yahoo declined the offer Feb. 11, triggering a mass of meetings […]

The year 2008 may be known as the year Microsoft truly tried to up the ante versus Google in the battle for Internet supremacy. Search engine market share Google, meanwhile, looked to extend its tendrils on the Internet.Microsoft tried to attack Google on the consumer Internet front, offering to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion Jan. […]

Unison Technologies has taken the gutsy step of offering its UC software suite free for small and midsize businesses.Startup Unison hopes to make money by serving business-to-business ads on its unified communications platform.Unison aims to win over customers tired of paying thousands of dollars per year for the classic Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes, […]

Net Applications made waves last week when it told reporters Google is masking origins of some of the traffic streaming out of its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.Google dumped fuel on the fire by unveiling Native Client, an open source runtime engine, browser plugin and compilation tool set to boost Web application performance on computing devices. […]

Remember last week when Net Applications told reporters Google is masking origins of some of the traffic streaming out of its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters? Google charged the notion this week by releasing Native Client, an open source runtime engine, browser plugin, and compilation tool set geared to boost Web application performance on computing devices. […]

When the Open Handset Alliance said it gained 14 new members Dec. 9, some industry watchers cocked an eyebrow at the participation of Vodafone.Google created OHA (Open Handset Alliance) in November 2007 to encourage the proliferation of smartphones based on the Google’s open-source Android mobile operating system as alternatives to the Apple iPhone and Microsoft […]

Google Chrome officially emerged from beta Dec. 11, roughly 100 days after the search engine giant unveiled its Google Web browser.Google is comfortable removing the beta tag from Chrome because the Web browser’s goals for stability and performance have been met, Google Engineering Director Linus Upson told eWEEK in an interview before the release.In its […]

Update:Back on Oct. 30, I wrote about Google expanding its chat feature in Gmail to include SMS messaging. The feature lets users send free text messages from their desktop computers to friends’ mobile phones. I raved about how great this service was, only to find out the following weekend that Google had run into a […]

Forrester Research’s Josh Bernoff released an interesting report about the trust factor associated with corporate blogs, or, rather, the lack of trust in corporate blogs, which ranked below even personal blogs and social network profiles in people’s perceptions. Ouch. Bernoff found: “Corporate blogs rank at the bottom of the trust scale with only 16% of […]

Update: Business Objects spent 18 years leading the market for business intelligence software, applications that help knowledge workers and executives gain greater understanding of the market behavior and business context of their users. Now part of SAP in the wake of a $6.8 billion buy, the BI company hopes to extend its lead in hosted, […]

The Open Handset Alliance, a group committed to creating and promoting smartphones and devices based on Google’s open-source Android mobile operating system, now has 47 members with the addition of 14 new member companies Dec. 9. Vodafone and Sony Ericsson lead the roster of new members, joined by AKM Semiconductor, ARM, ASUSTek Computer, Atheros Communications, […]

IBM made good on its October promise to roll out a new version of its hosted Web conferencing service, but it’s also getting marketing and sales help from conferencing services giant InterCall to reach more customers Dec. 9.Users can subscribe to the new Lotus Sametime Unyte, Version 8.2, which lets workers initiate Web conferencing sessions […]