Clint Boulton

Gartner analysts Anthony Bradley and Nikos Drakos say corporations should not ban social applications such as Twitter or social networks such as Facebook and MySpace in the enterprise. Their arguments come after banks such as Credit Suisse Group have stopped their employees from using such tools.Web collaboration tools are software applications that help users connect […]

Several Google users, some of them paying customers, found themselves knocked out of Google Apps and Gmail after an “access issue” knocked out the company’s software as a service suite for 15 hours.The snafu, spanning from 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday afternoon to nearly 5 a.m. EDT Thursday morning, came as an unwelcome shock to users […]

Google has sold its DoubleClick Performics unit, the albatross that many said would sink Google’s credibility for owning a search marketing business that tries to influence search engine results.Publicis Groupe will buy the Performics search marketing business for an undisclosed sum by the close of the third quarter of 2008.Performics is one of the top […]

Google today released a new General Search Appliance, a box that can index 10 million documents, or five times as many files as the previous GSA.Matt Glotzbach, product management director of enterprise for Google, told me Google is trying to change the way companies and users think of enterprise software.Traditionally, enterprise software companies, and this […]

Google Aug. 6 released Google Insights for Search, a neat little tool that can help advertisers better engage with their audiences. Good customer engagement will keep advertisers from taking their online ad campaigns to Yahoo and Microsoft. Google’s search analytics tools fuel advertisers’ campaigns and their clients’ enterprises, a sign that the Internet is a […]

Google isn’t waiting for Microsoft to scramble to improve its Fast enterprise search software.Google has retooled the architecture of its GSA (Google Search Appliance), making hardware and software changes that enable the enterprise search appliance to index as many as 10 million documents in one box. This is crucial at a time when businesses are […]

Google’s DoubleClick ad-serving unit, the group on which Google’s video ad hopes hinge, said it can now serve video ads on video platforms forged with Microsoft Silverlight 2.Silverlight, Microsoft’s Flash killer, is a programmable Web browser plug-in that lets users run animation, vector graphics, and audio and video media.With the new feature in DoubleClick’s In-Stream […]

Central Desktop, one of several Web collaboration software providers trying to compete with Microsoft SharePoint and Google Apps for a share of the SMB Web collaboration market, has added time tracking, support and help desk applications and a new database API that lets teams integrate data from other enterprise applications. The company, fond of saying […]

Elastra, one of a slew of startups creating platforms that host and run software entirely on the Internet, has just banked $12 million in funding from a pack of investors that includes cloud computing forbearer Amazon.com.Cloud computing is the new catch phrase for utility computing, where customers buy computing power from a provider that hosts […]

Following a well-publicized pact between Salesforce.com and Google, SuccessFactors has integrated its performance and talent management SAAS (software as a service) suite with the Google Apps SAAS collaboration software and other tools.SuccessFactors, which boasts 4 million users in 2,000 customer businesses, offers Web-based software that helps gauge employee performance, including skill sets, interests, career aspirations, […]

The LiMo Foundation unleashed seven new Linux-based mobile phones Aug. 4, pressuring Google and the Open Handset Alliance to create handsets based on the Linux-based Android mobile operating system. The phones, forged from the open-source LiMo Platform, are: Motorola’s Motozinet ZN5; FOMA N906i, FOMA N906i, FOMA N906iL and FOMA N706i from NEC; and the FOMA […]

LiMos New Linux-Based Smart Phones Mobile phone vendors Motorola, NEC and Panasonic have unveiled seven Linux-based smart phones for the LiMo Foundation. Review a sneak peek of all seven LiMo Linux smart phones in this eWEEK slide show. LiMos New Linux-Based Smart Phones – Motorola Motozine ZN5 Motorola Motozine ZN5The ZN5 is Motorola’s newest LiMo […]