Clint Boulton

Google next month will add technology to its AdSense program that detects domain kiting, a practice many experts in the domain registration space view as questionable as it is profitable. Domain kiting is a practice some domain registrants use to game the five-day grace period at the beginning of the registration of an ICANN-regulated domain. […]

If Christos Cotsakos has his way, the future of social networking will flow through West Palm Beach, Fla. That is where Cotsakos, a serial entrepreneur who spent six years as the CEO of E*Trade, is basing Moli, a social networking site where professionals can manage their social, business and family profiles in one account. Moli, […]

Visual search provider Eyealike Jan. 28 joined the raft of companies battling online copyright infringement with its new Copyright software. Intended as an alternative to content protection software from Audible Magic and others, Copyright automatically analyzes hundreds of images, motion and still to find video content that is being aired illegally online. YouTube, MySpace and […]

Google struck a deal with NTT DoCoMo Jan. 24 to market ad-laden search and applications to users of I-mode, a popular Internet service used by nearly 48 million people in Japan. Beginning this spring, Google will serve search results for mobile and PC Web sites via the I-mode portal search box, which will sit on […]

ORLANDO, FLA. — Business users hungry for taking disparate pieces of data and creating applications to get more business value may get their appetites satisfied when IBM’s Lotus Mashups hits the market later this year. Lotus Mashups will let users “mash up” various software feeds and widgets to build more valuable applications. Business users will […]

10 New Technologies IBM Is Cooking in Its Innovation Labs IBM Lotusphere 2008 is the setting for the introduction of new collaboration technologies, but it also affords IBM the opportunity to show off software from its research labs around the world. Here are 10 new technologies that have promise, but don’t get too excited! Some […]

Office productivity experts are frothing at the mouth over the convergence of online collaborative work spaces and enterprise social networks, which, ideally, would let users leverage profiles and online communities to work together more efficiently. Huddle.net, a London-based startup, does just that, merging online collaboration and a social network with the launch of free Facebook […]

Here at Lotusphere, I have access to scads of IBMers who love to talk collaboration software. For kicks, I took an informal poll about what IBMers think of the cool new big company on the block, Google. Is Google an IBM competitor, or an ally? IBMers said it’s too early to tell, and so the […]

Orlando, Fla.-IBM this year will add new layers to its Lotus SameTime instant messaging and Web conferencing suite in an effort to improve the way people work together, company officials announced, jan. 22, at Lotusphere here. Lotus Sametime Advanced will include persistent chat, allowing users in a workgroup or department to conduct a continuous discussion. […]

Analysis: Microsoft’s play on Jan. 8 to buy Fast Search & Transfer ASA for $1.2 billion is an attempt to grab a leadership position in the multi-billion-dollar market for enterprise search, as much as it is a gauntlet thrown at the feet of Google, IBM and others. Lamenting the state of the enterprise search market […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-IBM plans to announce commercial mashup software and a version of its Lotus Connections software for Research In Motion’s popular BlackBerry smart phones, according to a company press statement obtained by eWEEK. Jeff Schick, vice president for social computing software at IBM, will announce the Lotus Mashups and BlackBerry Client for Lotus Connections during […]

Orlando, FLA.- IBM introduced a software-as-a-service offering and line of servers designed to serve the multimillion-vendor SMB market at its 15th annual Lotusphere show Jan. 21. Ready now in managed beta, Bluehouse is a platform that provides extranet services to make it easy for small and midsize businesses to securely collaborate beyond their organizational boundaries. […]