Clint Boulton

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 […]

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 […]