Clint Boulton

Powerset, the semantic search company some called a Google killer until Microsoft bought it Aug. 1, has now been partially integrated into the software giant’s Live Search application.The features include Freebase Answers, better captions for Wikipedia results (eh) and new related searches that leverage the Factz engine. They are all being tested on Live Search, […]

In a move that spells out just how hot software as a service has become, IBM will soon offer a hosted version of Lotus Notes.Speaking by phone after delivering a keynote on Web 2.0 computing at Interop Sept. 17, Bob Picciano, general manager of IBM Lotus software and WebSphere Portal, told me the hosted version […]

Stat of the day for Google Watch: More than 1.93 million unique people — 73 percent of whom were males — visited the Google Chrome Web browser “Thank You” page between Sept. 1 and Sept. 7, according to stats published today, Sept. 17, by number cruncher Nielsen Online. Nielsen Research Director Jon Stewart added that […]

IBM is taking its social software efforts out of its own lab and into the more open IBM Center for Social Software, an incubator lab where IBM’s customers and partners, as well as university faculty and students, can create social software together that will aid in building enterprisewide collaboration among customers, partners and employees.Bob Picciano, […]

The cat is out of the bag regarding the Android-based Dream phone from T-Mobile, Google and HTC.We know for sure the Dream smart phone will be unveiled at an event Sept. 23 in New York. We know from specs and pictures the Dream has a slide-out keyboard. We suspect T-Mobile will begin selling it Oct. […]

It’s taken days of browbeating from media organizations and media-fueled hints that the Justice Department is going to contest its deal with Yahoo, but Google has finally come out blazing in defense of its search advertising practices. Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian denounced a July report from SearchIgnite, which concluded that keyword prices on Yahoo […]

Following my Google Android post earlier today, I just received an invite to easily the hottest high-tech ticket (at least on the so-called “right coast”) of the year, the launch of the first Android-powered phone from T-Mobile.The date is, as Reuters and the Wall Street Journal reported, Sept. 23. Unlike with the iPhone 3G, people […]

Update: IBM has agreed to license bandwidth management software from Avistar Communications to give its Lotus Sametime VOIP, instant messaging and Web conferencing software an infusion of life.The news, announced out of the Interop New York show Sept. 16, highlights IBM’s dedication to its UCC (unified communications and collaboration) software and strategy.UCC rolls applications such […]

The Wall Street Journal today is rehashing last week’s Reuters report about the Sept. 23 introduction of the HTC-built Dream, based on the Android mobile operating system, by Google and T-Mobile USA. This is an interesting twist because usually it’s Reuters who rehashes the Journal.That’s a warning; if you see Reuters issue a report rehashing […]

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Google continued its offline access march Sept. 15 by launching Google Gears for Apple’s Safari browser on the Mac OS X operating system.The upgrade means you can now access sites that support Gears, including Google Docs, Picasa Web Albums, Google Reader, Zoho office apps, WordPress and the YouTube uploader via Safari.Google Gears, which lets users […]

The New York Times over the weekend published a clever feature by reporter Joe Nocera on Google’s search advertising practices.Nocera chronicles how Sourcetool directory site proprietor Dan Savage is struggling to return his earnings from Google to form after the search giant jacked up Sourcetool’s AdWords minimum bid requirement from 5 or 6 cents to […]