Clint Boulton

IBMs Unified Communications and Collaboration Quest IBMs Unified Communications and Collaboration Quest – UCC Good for You, Me and IBMs Wallet Citing IDC figures, IBM claims UCC will top $17 billion by 2011. IBM plans to capitalize on the growth potential with products such as Sametime Advanced, a product that adds social networking tools and […]

Yahoo said it will soon provide APIs to its Search platform to let third party developers tweak search results with structured data and make them more useful for users. The program will allow programmers overlay their own algorithms to determine how the Yahoo Search index is used. To make programming on Yahoo’s search platform more […]

Google wasted no time turbo-charging its online ad delivery two days after closing its $3.1 billion deal for DoubleClick, unveiling a free software service that lets Web publishers sell ads and monitor how well they do. Ad Manager, launched in beta March 13 and hosted by Google, is not a quick-and-dirty offering from DoubleClick, whose […]

The New York Times is reporting that Yahoo is considering joining OpenSocial, an effort spearheaded by Google and MySpace that leverages open-source APIs to enable social networks to share data with one another. OpenSocial was created as an alternative to walled-garden networks such as Facebook, where data is not shared for privacy safeguards as much […]

Zoho, the software-as-a-service productivity and collaboration alternative to Google Apps, has fashioned a human resource management application for SMBs that want to run their businesses online. Launched as a free beta March 10, Zoho People is geared for small and midsize businesses of 50 or so employees to help HR managers better juggle information about […]

As expected, the European Commission today cleared Google’s $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick, paving the way for the search giant to close the deal hours later and clearing the EC’s plate to focus on the impending Microhoo merger. The watchdog concluded the deal would not harm “consumers, either in ad serving or in intermediation in […]

SOMERS, N.Y.- As the leader of IBM’s $20 billion software business, Steve Mills, senior vice president of the company’s software group, has his hands in a lot of software pies. Perhaps none is as hot right now as IBM’s unified communications and collaboration strategy, an technological mashup that involves sprucing up traditional instant messaging applications, […]

Spam and virus threats to enterprise messaging security and compliance may level off this year compared to 2007, but social engineering techniques are evolving to challenge businesses and security software providers, according to a new report released by Google’s Postini team. The report, released March 6 after Google’s Postini team commissioned the study to survey […]

SOMERS, N.Y.-IBM has unveiled new Lotus Sametime Advanced software and pledged to invest $1 billion to fortify its unified communications and collaboration strategy in the next three years through acquisitions, internal development and new services. Detailed March 10 at a small press event at the company’s offices here (after an informal mention at Lotusphere Jan. […]

The European Commission has an April 2 deadline to render judgment on whether or not Google’s $3.1 billion bid for ad tool provider DoubleClick is anti-competitive enough to hurt the industry. However, reports from Reuters suggest the organization’s competitive watchdogs could actually let Google pass go and collect $200 as soon as next week. The […]