Clint Boulton

Google wasted no time turbo-charging its online ad delivery two days after closing its $3.1 billion deal for DoubleClick, unveiling a free software service that lets Web publishers sell ads and monitor how well they do. Ad Manager, launched in beta March 13 and hosted by Google, is not a quick-and-dirty offering from DoubleClick, whose […]

The New York Times is reporting that Yahoo is considering joining OpenSocial, an effort spearheaded by Google and MySpace that leverages open-source APIs to enable social networks to share data with one another. OpenSocial was created as an alternative to walled-garden networks such as Facebook, where data is not shared for privacy safeguards as much […]

Zoho, the software-as-a-service productivity and collaboration alternative to Google Apps, has fashioned a human resource management application for SMBs that want to run their businesses online. Launched as a free beta March 10, Zoho People is geared for small and midsize businesses of 50 or so employees to help HR managers better juggle information about […]

As expected, the European Commission today cleared Google’s $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick, paving the way for the search giant to close the deal hours later and clearing the EC’s plate to focus on the impending Microhoo merger. The watchdog concluded the deal would not harm “consumers, either in ad serving or in intermediation in […]

SOMERS, N.Y.- As the leader of IBM’s $20 billion software business, Steve Mills, senior vice president of the company’s software group, has his hands in a lot of software pies. Perhaps none is as hot right now as IBM’s unified communications and collaboration strategy, an technological mashup that involves sprucing up traditional instant messaging applications, […]

Spam and virus threats to enterprise messaging security and compliance may level off this year compared to 2007, but social engineering techniques are evolving to challenge businesses and security software providers, according to a new report released by Google’s Postini team. The report, released March 6 after Google’s Postini team commissioned the study to survey […]

SOMERS, N.Y.-IBM has unveiled new Lotus Sametime Advanced software and pledged to invest $1 billion to fortify its unified communications and collaboration strategy in the next three years through acquisitions, internal development and new services. Detailed March 10 at a small press event at the company’s offices here (after an informal mention at Lotusphere Jan. […]

The European Commission has an April 2 deadline to render judgment on whether or not Google’s $3.1 billion bid for ad tool provider DoubleClick is anti-competitive enough to hurt the industry. However, reports from Reuters suggest the organization’s competitive watchdogs could actually let Google pass go and collect $200 as soon as next week. The […]

Now that Google has released its Android mobile operating system stack, the fun part is developing applications to run on it. A Google software programmer has created Apps-for-Android, an open-source project released under the Apache 2.0 license to share sample applications for the Android platform. Apps-for-Android launched March 4 with a collaboration application, WikiNotes for […]

In December, eWEEK polled customers and analysts about what features they wanted to see in Google Apps, the search vendor’s popular collaboration software suite. One of those features included the ability for Google Calendar to work with other calendaring applications in the market. Google March 5 answered the bell, releasing Google Calendar Synch, which synchronizes […]

Google scored a goal for team data portability March 5, unveiling a Google Contacts Data API to let programmers provide access to users’ contact lists shared among Google applications such as Gmail, Reader and Calendar. The Google Contacts Data API allows programmers to request a list of a user’s contacts, edit or delete content in […]

Ask.com is retooling its business strategy to be a destination that helps users find reference information, such as online dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias and area codes, as well as answers to health and entertainment questions. Responding to reports that portrayed the company’s goal as a move to become a search engine for women, Ask.com spokesman Nicholas […]