Clint Boulton

AP and Reuters are among several news outlets reporting that NTT DoCoMo will enlist some Google Apps, including search, e-mail and photo-sharing services on some of its handsets, marking another notch on the leading search engine’s wireless belt. Securing Japan’s top mobile phone carrier as an ally in its quest to help its Internet services […]

The New York Times Friday published several documents Microsoft used to make the case that a Google purchase of DoubleClick would give the search engine powerhouse several competitive advantages in the online advertising market. Microsoft was hoping the documents, which include a three-page diagram (PDF) of the so-called online ad “pipeline” Google would control should […]

The Federal Trade Commission has cleared Google’s $3.1 billion bid for ad provider DoubleClick, greasing the wheels of Google’s online ad engine in 2008. Acquiring DoubleClick will provide digital ad and search leader Google with plenty of new firepower: the ability to serve graphical display ads in addition to the company’s text-based links. DoubleClick’s technology […]

Microsoft has landed Viacom as a major online ad customer for its Atlas AdManager platform in the United States and managed to license the media giant’s short-form television and theatrical content from MTV, Comedy Central, BET and Paramount Pictures, for MSN and Xbox 360. Microsoft will also buy advertising on Viacom broadcast and online networks […]

Google Apps Premier Edition is not even a year old, but the enterprise flavor of the company’s collaboration software suite is getting some rave reviews from customers along with a dash of constructive criticism. More than 2,000 businesses a day are signing up for Google Apps. Customers who want the extra security and support can […]

IBM’s Almaden Research Center is cooking up new search software that unearths the most relevant information in a search query to help people find information buried in their e-mail applications. IBM calls OmniFind Personal E-mail Search—or IOPES—semantic, or “smart” search, because it uses special algorithms that can rationalize incomplete queries to retrieve information such as […]

NEW YORK—Google is often portrayed as the technology hipster, rolling out Web applications almost at whim. But unseen to the public, IBM is rolling out Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, mashups and virtual reality technologies to help its employees be more productive. Inside its firewall, Big Blue looks pretty hip. IBM officials, led […]

A lot was made of Facebook’s Beacon snafu, largely because, well, the media and the blogosphere wouldn’t give it a rest. I stand guilty as charged on that score, but I don’t think anyone following the online ad space will disagree that, along with mobile, social networking ads (social ads really) are a major green […]

Determined to lead the market in creating social networking tools for the enterprise, IBM introduced a new set of social networking visualization and analysis tools for businesses. IBM Atlas for Lotus Connections helps users answer questions about key experts on given topics and how they are connected. The software also gives users access to other […]

Google is getting into the knowledge-sharing game, testing a Wikipedia-like service that lets authors publish articles on areas of their expertise and potentially make money from their content. Offered by invite only in its first phase, the service is called Knol, a term that doubles as a unit of knowledge and the name of a […]

Google executives are prone to preaching about technologies from the consumer market that cross over to the business side of the house to become business productivity tools. As Vice President and General Manager of Google’s Enterprise business, Dave Girouard stands at the intersection of this crossroad for Google, and knows all too well about the […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.- Sometimes it’s the little things in life that lead to great epiphanies. Vic Gundotra, a vice president of engineering, has one such story to tell, and his daughter to thank, for his joining Google. It happened at a dinner party. When one of his friends asked him a question he didn’t know […]