Clint Boulton

LAS VEGAS — Google knows almost everything connected to the Web, but there is one major source of untapped data the company has scarcely touched to date. Can you guess that area? If you cried “e-commerce transactions” you would be right, according to analysts at the Gartner Symposium ITexpo 2008 here April 10. Thanks to […]

Yahoo, as part of its bid to test strategic alternatives that would keep it out of the clutches of Microsoft, said today that it will run Google ads alongside its own search results. Yahoo said in a statement the test using Google’s AdSense for Search service will apply only to traffic from Yahoo.com in the […]

Should Facebook Be Banned from Work? By Clint Boulton Should Facebook Be Banned from Work? – Facebook Threatens Intellectual Property If organizations let their employees spend time on Facebook, argued Drakos, they may reveal confidential information, perhaps even revealing tips that would help rivals gain competitive advantage. Should Facebook Be Banned from Work? – Blame […]

LAS VEGAS-The evolution of parallel programming in software will lead to new modes of computing over the next several years, according to Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie. Mundie discussed the future of computing and what his research team at Microsoft is doing to contribute to it during a keynote interview at Gartner’s […]

LAS VEGAS-Google Apps is like a “fog rolling into the harbor,” permeating businesses quite possibly at the expense of Microsoft and IBM, Gartner analyst Tom Austin said. Google just isn’t doing it by coddling the enterprise market the way its rivals do. Austin, in a presentation at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo here April 9, said […]

Surprise: The European Commission has said Google’s policy to anonymize data after 18 months is still too long. Shocker: Google’s privacy guru disagrees. Folks: I’m linking to this with the understanding that this is a really dense document, stuffed with the Platonian polemics of an organization that treats the definition of search engines as though […]

LAS VEGAS-Is green IT anything more than a buzzword when it comes to producing real reductions in carbon emissions or significant cost savings? This was the issue debated April 8 at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo here. Gartner analysts Simon Mingay and Martin Reynolds argued that green IT is indeed important, while French Caldwell and Charles […]

LAS VEGAS-Companies who don’t already employ presence, universal clients or multichannel notification technologies will have to adopt some form of UCC tools if they want to hire and retain the sharpest talent, an analyst said at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2008 here. Gartner analyst Bern Elliot made the claim during his overview on the UCC […]

Even as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang are sparring back and forth about Microsoft’s acquisition offer, Yahoo managed to introduce an ad management platform as the new model for how to let companies buy and sell ads on the Internet. Unveiled April 7 and built with some of the assets Yahoo […]

Google April 7 launched the test version of Google App Engine, a tool designed to let programmers build Web applications on top of Google’s infrastructure. The tool, launched at a developer event on the company’s Mountain View, Calif., campus after speculation by TechCrunch and other blogs, is an alternative to cloud computing infrastructure from Amazon […]