Clint Boulton

It’s official. Google has sealed the deal for Internet security and compliance software maker Postini, which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the search and software maker, according to a blog post published yesterday by David Girouard, Google’s Enterprise guru. Google made some serious waves when it announced the $625 billion bid July 9, […]

Google, which has weathered fierce criticisms for the way it harvests and retains data on users Web searches, called on Sept. 14 for world governments and fellow tech companies to support the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Privacy Framework. APECs goals are aimed at striking a balance between sharing information over the Internet and protecting users rights […]

You know it’s a slow news day when news sites and bloggers everywhere are dishing about the Google Jet co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page use to scoot around the world, or, as Danny Sullivan wrote, to “sales and business meetings.” Apparently, for $1.3 million a year, Page and Brin can “park their customized wide-body […]

BSG Alliance, one of a number of nascent on-demand software enablers, said Sept. 13 it will acquire software-as-a-service collaboration specialist Kalivo for an undisclosed sum. BSG, of Austin, Texas, also appointed former Microsoft executive Steve Douty president of its applications and infrastructure division, BSG Applications, which provisions, manages and secures software for on-demand environments. Douty […]

In a move that further underscores Google’s quest for the the online ad dollar, the search company has quietly noted that it is moving AdWords onto its Google Mobile Search product. “If your text ads are eligible to appear on Google Mobile Search pages, they will run for free through November 18, 2007. You can […]

The booming mobile search advertising will grow 112 percent within five years, making it imperative for market leader Google to take steps to defend itself against a search-hungry Microsoft, according to an analyst from The Kelsey Group. The slowdown in traditional search engine growth is one of the reasons mobile search advertising sales will balloon […]

Adam Bosworth, a noted computer programmer who joined Google in 2004 to run the company’s Health project, has left the company. A Google spokesperson said: “Adam is a great talent and was instrumental in starting Google Health. He is now on vacation and has decided to pursue other opportunities after that. Marissa Mayer is taking […]

Its official: Blogging is mainstream. Responding to customer demand, market researcher comScore Sept. 11 said it would start counting the audiences for blogging sites in what it is formally calling a Conversational Media Report. The report will tally the number of readers of blogs both popular and obscure, as well as some social networking sites. […]

Facebook on Sept. 5 made its member listings searchable by outside users and public search engines, and in a seemingly innocuous move to help its 40 million users find each other, threatened its hard-won reputation for strict privacy practices. The adjustment means a query of a Facebook members name on search engines such as Google, […]

Microsoft has always been dismissive about Google Apps, but yesterday’s FUD blast raised the bar. Responding to Capgemini’s pledge to sell Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) as part of its desktop services package, Microsoft released a top 10 list of questions aimed at shredding Google’s credibility as a provider of enterprise software. Microsoft Watch’s Joe […]

Capgemini has agreed to provide Google Apps Premier Edition, Googles enterprise applications suite, to its vast client list, giving Google a potential giant boost in customer adoption. Financial terms of the deal, to be announced Sept. 13, were not made public. But the deal is a sign that the broader business market is set to […]

Some programs just wont die. Eudora 8.0 is a mail and news application from Qualcomm based on the open source Thunderbird client from the Mozilla Foundation. After abandoning Eudora as a commercial product in May, six Qualcomm programmers have released the product to Mozilla for further development under the code name Penelope. A beta of […]