Clint Boulton

Google came out swinging Sunday with its opposition to Microsoft’s overgenerous $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo, a sinister piece of Orwellian FUD designed to make us all believe that Microsoft is trying to control the Internet the way it does desktop software. “Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions,” wrote David Drummond, senior vice […]

With task management on the wish list of customers for Google’s Apps portfolio, one startup’s technology may be what the search giant needs to fulfill its customers’ desires. LiquidPlanner officials demonstrated at Demo 08 the week of Jan. 28 their brand of project management software, a SAAS (software-as-a-service) application that combines advanced estimation and scheduling […]

If Yahoo accepts Microsoft’s $44.6 billion purchase offer, the combined entity could help slow Google’s march in the Internet market, but Microsoft will have to rationalize several disparate software products while competing with Google in search, online ads and software-as-a-service applications.IDC analyst Karsten Weide said a merger of Yahoo and Microsoft would create a stronger […]

Microsoft’s decision to shell out $44.6 billion for a company worth less than half that much is a mistake that can only crumble the software giant’s fortress. In making such a bid, Microsoft is telling the world that it can’t make its way in this rapidly evolving market for Internet-based software and that its software-plus-services […]

A handful of search engines are making their debut or introducing new products here, in Palm Desert, Calif., at Demo 08 this week: Circos.com, Delver (formerly Semingo), HealthPricer, Silobreaker, Jodange and Eyealike, all of whom have varying degrees of attractiveness to Google. I believe some have more appeal than others.

10 Technologies that Stood Out at Demo Social search. Unified Communications. Collaboration. Social networking. Demo 2008 is a hotbed for many new technologies. With 77 presenters in two days, the companies and their products can blur together. Here are 10 products that stood out- 10 Technologies that Stood Out at Demo – Iterasi Toolbar Iterasi […]

PALM DESERT, Calif. — Emissaries from Google, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Yahoo and other large vendors are checking out new technologies at Demo 08 here. So what are Google and Microsoft, competitors in search and collaboration software, interested in? Michael Pearson, principal of corporate development at Google, declined to comment Jan. 30 due to the sensitive […]

Mathematical algorithms are the secret sauce behind top-line search engines, so some vendors who realize it’s almost impossible to take market share from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft head-to-head are using human behavior to augment search results. One start-up in this space is Lijit Networks, which offers a free software tool called a Search Widget that […]

Yahoo’s pledge to cut 1,000 jobs is the latest move for a company beset by financial problems to improve its position as it seeks to combat Google and Microsoft in the market for online advertising. As expected, the company announced the cuts during its fourth-quarter conference call Jan. 29. News of the pink slips, which […]

PALM DESERT, Calif. — Communications technologies constituted the bulk of the relentless barrage of presentations — 19 companies at six minutes a pop — at the launch of Demo 08 here on Jan. 29. If there is a thematic current running under the show, it’s that vendors are looking to leverage the Internet fabric as […]

Businesses will leverage blogs, wikis, mashups and social networking tools to help make their employees’ collaboration efforts more efficient and productive in 2008, according to a Forrester Research report released Jan. 28. Though most IT departments have resisted Web 2.0 technologies because they believed them to be frivolous consumer tools, Forrester analysts expect half of […]

Google’s latest Doodle is an homage to the Lego, the multi-colored plastic building block that snaps together, allowing children to test their construction mettle by building fire trucks, police cars and even little people during recess and play times all over the world. Many people may have heard that Google has Legos scattered all over […]