Clint Boulton

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 […]

Google confirmed after the stock market closed today that Chief Financial Officer George Reyes will retire as soon as he helps the company find his replacement. The 53-year-old Reyes, at Google for the last 5+ years, said he will stay to help search for a new CFO, which Google expects will occur by the end […]

UPDATE: The cash cow keeps getting healthier. CNN.com has agreed to join Google’s AdSense advertising program, which has made the search vendor the multibillion-dollar Internet ad realtor it is. Neither the financial terms nor the duration of the deal were made public, but a CNN spokesperson confirmed for me that Google is replacing Yahoo as […]