Clint Boulton

Orlando, FLA. — IBM served up a lot of technology for its 15th annual Lotusphere show here, but the uber vendor still has plenty of dishes cooking in its research lab oven. Software engineers from around the world showed off, for the first time, several wares in demonstrations for the Armonk, N.Y., company’s Innovation Lab […]

Orlando, FLA.-When IBM shipped Lotus Notes 8 in August 2007, its engineers were confident that the new user interface rendered its customers’ inboxes as valuable integrated workspaces, combining e-mail, calendar, instant messaging, office productivity tools and collaborative applications. The feedback was so positive that IBM is taking this integration up another notch in Lotus Notes […]

IBM has a new ally in its fight with Microsoft over share in the office productivity software market. Big Blue officials the week of Jan. 21 will unveil an e-mail package for Lotus Notes that runs on Apple’s iPod Touch music player and the smash hit iPhone, which just surpassed 3 million units sold. IBM […]

People are watching way too much YouTube. Google, led by YouTube.com, increased its video market share by more than two percentage points to 31.3 percent from October to November, as roughly 76 million Americans viewed 2.9 billion videos on the popular video site, according to a new report from market surveyor comScore. Fox Interactive Media […]

Google added another notch to its belt as good Samaritan, rolling out five areas it says will be the focus of its Google.org philanthropic front over the next five to 10 years. Today’s news includes $25 million in new grants and investments based on Google’s founders pledge to devote 1 percent of the company’s equity […]

Yahoo, the maligned Internet company looking to turn things around in 2008, said today it is backing the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework, allowing its 248 million users to access multiple Web sites with one ID. With the help of partners such as Plaxo and OpenID creator JanRain, Yahoo will support OpenID in public beta […]

Proving several analysts clairvoyant, or at least bullish about the demand for social tools in businesses, The Thomson Corporation, Jan. 15, agreed to buy social search specialist Contact Networks for an undisclosed sum. Thomson targeted Boston-based Contact for ContactNet, a search application that identifies colleagues who have the strongest relationships with a client or prospect. […]

MySpace’s Jan. 14 pledge to 49 states’ attorneys general to make changes on its social network that will better protect minors was not just a gesture of self-preservation. The act sets an important precedent for Facebook, Google, and any other Internet company that caters to consumers. Providing more stringent content and personal protection practices is […]

Oracle’s $8.5 billion bid to buy BEA Systems may help the database giant gain some ground against top middleware provider IBM, but some experts believe the opportunity exists for smaller rivals to capitalize on the fear, uncertainty and doubt associated with such a major merger. Stuart Williams, a Technology Business Research analyst, said in a […]

Practically duplicating a deal it made with Sprint last summer, Google inked a pact Jan. 15 to let wireless broadband provider Clearwire offer certain Google Apps to its roughly 350,000 consumer and business customers. Clearwire, looking for partners to help build out a global wireless network, will begin migrating its current customers to Gmail and […]

Startup Grayboxx is out of beta, launching a nationwide local search service Jan. 16 that recommends and ranks businesses through an algorithm rather than just through user-generated reviews, which is the modus operandi for competing services. Local search services such as Yahoo Local, IAC’s CitySearch or Yelp generate a list of businesses and let users […]

Just over a month after launching Google Apps tailored for the iPhone, Google celebrated the first day of Macworld in San Francisco by adding more speed and an improved user interface to its applications stack Jan 14. Google said in a statement the applications, including Search, Gmail, Calendar, Reader, Docs and Picasa, are easier to […]