Clint Boulton

SAN FRANCISCO—The future of work will include real-time collaboration, said officials from Google, Microsoft, SAP and other vendors participating in the kickoff keynote panel Sept. 6 at the Office 2.0 Conference here. Panel moderator and blogger Om Malik led the panelists in a broad discussion of how the workplace is evolving to become an online […]

Is it me, or does the deck seem increasingly stacked against companies trying to nail Google for trademark infringement? Last Friday, Google quietly put to rest a four-year-old trademark infringement case triggered by ABWF (American Blind and Wallpaper Factory). The cost? Purely legal, according to the settlement statement. Google must abide by its current trademark […]

Its an example of how social networking sites can go horribly wrong. Quechup is being accused of sneaking into members address books and spamming their contacts. Quechup, owned by Las Vegas-based iDate Corporation, is part of the social networking mix that includes MySpace.com, LinkedIn, Facebook and Flickr. The site enables users to connect with others, […]

Yahoo on Sept. 4 agreed to buy online ad network BlueLithium for $300 million in cash, in a move to fortify the companys position versus Google and Microsoft in the competitive market for placing ads on the Internet. BlueLithium, of San Jose, Calif., snaps up banner and other graphical ads from Web publishers and resells […]

Spies arent generally anxious to share information, but the Director of National Intelligence and the United States government are encouraging them to do so and to use a secure social network, “A-Space” to do it. “A-Space” (A is for analyst), modeled after MySpace and Facebook, will open in December for U.S. spies and covert operatives […]

With billions of dollars at stake in the market for unified communications, Microsoft on Aug. 29 agreed to acquire enterprise group chat software maker Parlano for an undisclosed sum. Chicago-based Parlano makes MindAlign, which allows several employees to communicate and collaborate in real time on projects that persist over time. Since Parlanos inception in 2000, […]

If Google plans to unleash a mobile phone, industry analysts agree it wont be a solo effort, but a collaboration with multiple hardware and software vendors. Rumors have abounded since a blogger for CrunchGear reported August 27 that Google is working on mobile-tailored versions of Google Maps (with built-in GPS), Gmail, Google Talk and Calendar, […]

A few weeks ago, rumors of a Google browser captured the public’s imagination, but that’s a rumor that’s been going around for a few years. The latest rekindled rumor, propagated yesterday in a blog post by Engadget’s Ryan Block, is that Google is inching ever so closely to announcing the alleged Googlephone. Few in the […]

We can get as giddy as we want about Google taking on Microsoft in the applications market, but we’ve got a long way to go to get there, according to a new slide show on Baseline magazine’s Web site. Forrester claims Microsoft owns 95 to 98 percent of the market, while Google is struggling to […]

Google surprised the industry when it became accredited as a registrar more than two years ago, with analysts questioning whether or not it was planning to challenge the registrar incumbents. But Google insisted it just wanted to gain a better understanding of the DNS (domain name system) to support its Google Apps strategy. The search […]