Clint Boulton

SAPs bid to purchase business intelligence market leader Business Objects for $6.78 billion Oct. 8 is reverberating throughout the industry and, for the moment, poses the question about the value of business intelligence without collaboration. BI includes software that supports business processes by collecting information about the relative health of a business, such as information […]

Earlier this week, Google opened an office in San Francisco and MySpace has started blasting out invites to the opening of its San Francisco office. Google set up its taco stand at 345 Spear St., where it is occupying several floors and around 200,000 square feet at what is known as Hills Plaza. Reports claim […]

An attorney for Google said the company has sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission urging it to stand fast against Verizon. The phone carrier is suing the regulatory body because it disagrees with the FCC’s rules calling for an open network for all devices and software for the 700MHz spectrum auction. The open […]

Is the noose tightening around social networking site Facebook? One week after N.Y. State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo subpoenaed Facebook for information about its safety controls, his New Jersey counterpart, Attorney General Anne Milgram, on Oct. 1 subpoenaed the social site for names and e-mail addresses of any convicted New Jersey sexual offenders who may […]

Less than three weeks after closing its purchase of security software maker Postini, Google said it is adding security and compliance features from that company to Google Apps Premier Edition, the search vendors hosted-collaboration software for enterprises. The tools could help make Googles SAAS (software-as-a-service) applications suite a bit more attractive as the company seeks […]

Google today added core security and policy management facilities from its purchase of Postini to the Gmail application in its Google Apps Premier Edition. Normally, such product adds are not a big deal, but this is Google. Everyone is waiting with baited breath to see how the search and software vendor is going to endear […]

Yahoo is following in the footsteps of its rivals by revamping its Yahoo Search platform, a product that is more intuitive than the companys previous search offering and that symbolizes Yahoos transformation. The technology, introduced Oct. 1, includes several new features that are intended to make it easier for consumers to find what they need, […]

IBM unveiled on Oct. 2 a new version of its electronic forms software that allows users to create, fill out, sign and submit forms data via a Web browser without downloading additional software. Lotus Forms 3.0, announced at the IBM Lotus Collaboration Summit, in Washington, employs an AJAX- (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)-based wizard for its […]

The revelation by a top Google engineer that the search company is planning to hire thousands of engineers in Europe is partly a political move to endear itself to the European Union. That was the assessment by some experts who believe Google wants to avoid the moves Microsoft made to draw the continents ire and […]

AT&T picked up Internet-based conferencing and collaboration software provider Interwise Oct. 1 and with it a bigger play in the video, Web conferencing and collaboration race against rivals Sprint, Verizon and Cisco Systems. San Antonio-based AT&T acquired privately held Interwise, of Cambridge, Mass., for $121 million, both companies said. Interwise offers VOIP (voice over IP), […]

I’m a little nonplussed by the way the Google-DoubleClick hearing with the Senate went yesterday. I mean, I expected some verbal jabs between Google counsel David Drummond and Microsoft’s legal eagle Brad Smith, and we got ’em. I especially enjoyed this serve and volley that made its way in just about every report. Analogies are […]

With the hullabaloo over its $3.1 billion bid for DoubleClick still fresh, Google is finding the time to make some small acquisitions. The latest buy is in the mobile space, continuing the search vendor’s torrid news pace for technologies and deals that will have an impact on the company position on our wireless devices. Google, […]