Clint Boulton

Google Apps Premier Edition is not even a year old, but the enterprise flavor of the company’s collaboration software suite is getting some rave reviews from customers along with a dash of constructive criticism. More than 2,000 businesses a day are signing up for Google Apps. Customers who want the extra security and support can […]

IBM’s Almaden Research Center is cooking up new search software that unearths the most relevant information in a search query to help people find information buried in their e-mail applications. IBM calls OmniFind Personal E-mail Search—or IOPES—semantic, or “smart” search, because it uses special algorithms that can rationalize incomplete queries to retrieve information such as […]

NEW YORK—Google is often portrayed as the technology hipster, rolling out Web applications almost at whim. But unseen to the public, IBM is rolling out Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, mashups and virtual reality technologies to help its employees be more productive. Inside its firewall, Big Blue looks pretty hip. IBM officials, led […]

A lot was made of Facebook’s Beacon snafu, largely because, well, the media and the blogosphere wouldn’t give it a rest. I stand guilty as charged on that score, but I don’t think anyone following the online ad space will disagree that, along with mobile, social networking ads (social ads really) are a major green […]

Determined to lead the market in creating social networking tools for the enterprise, IBM introduced a new set of social networking visualization and analysis tools for businesses. IBM Atlas for Lotus Connections helps users answer questions about key experts on given topics and how they are connected. The software also gives users access to other […]

Google is getting into the knowledge-sharing game, testing a Wikipedia-like service that lets authors publish articles on areas of their expertise and potentially make money from their content. Offered by invite only in its first phase, the service is called Knol, a term that doubles as a unit of knowledge and the name of a […]

Google executives are prone to preaching about technologies from the consumer market that cross over to the business side of the house to become business productivity tools. As Vice President and General Manager of Google’s Enterprise business, Dave Girouard stands at the intersection of this crossroad for Google, and knows all too well about the […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.- Sometimes it’s the little things in life that lead to great epiphanies. Vic Gundotra, a vice president of engineering, has one such story to tell, and his daughter to thank, for his joining Google. It happened at a dinner party. When one of his friends asked him a question he didn’t know […]

I spent the day at Google’s headquarters Dec. 12, meeting a handful of senior executives from across the company’s broad product portfolio. This was my first time at the sprawling Mountain View campus, and it reminded me of my college orientation freshman year. Is this what it’s like to be a Noogler on the first […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin get all the fame and glory for launching their search engine nine years ago. But these aren’t the guys you generally associate with educating the public about Google’s search and various other products. For that you have to turn to Marissa Mayer, vice president of search […]