Clint Boulton

Tour Microsoft Bing on Windows Phone 7, Safari by Clint Boulton Bing Homepage Check out how the Bing homepage on Windows Phone 7 mirrors the desktop version of Bing. Weather Forecasts Makers of Android phones like to tout how the weather widgets look. Bing isn’t too shabby on Windows Phone 7. Check Flights This tool, […]

Dear Google Watchers: Some 14 months after resuming my Google Watch post I’m taking my first full week of vacation from writing and posting for both eWEEK.com and this blog. Of course, like so many professional athletes these days, I’ve promised that before and proven myself a liar time and again. I’m going to try […]

When Deadline.com got the scoop that Groundswell Productions is making a feature film out of Ken Auletta’s book “Googled: The End of the World As We Know it,” media summarily claimed that such a film would be boring. I’ve read Auletta’s book. He does a fine job telling the story of how Google came to […]

Microsofts Stealth Attack in Enterprise Social Software by Clint Boulton Gartner on Social Software The Gartner Webinar covers trends for the enterprise social software market. Collaboration Desert Companies tend to have either simple e-mail or structured collaboration systems, such as IBM Lotus Notes or Microsoft SharePoint, to facilitate collaboration among employees and the people they […]

The Facebook Places check-in service should pose a strong challenge to Google Places once local businesses begin advertising through it, experts believe. The services ultimately share the same means to a financial end in making ad dollars from connecting local businesses to consumers using their smartphones to navigate city streets. Google Places is a local […]

Google confirmed Aug. 20 it has acquired Like.com, whose visual search engine helps people match clothes and other apparel online and purchase them from retailers. Financial terms were not disclosed, though TechCrunch said the deal is in the neighborhood of $100 million. Like.com CEO and founder Munjal Shah announced the deal on the Like.com home […]

Google and Apple are both making moves to ensure smooth financial transactions on their mobile platforms. Last week news bubbled up that Google and PayPal were brokering a deal to let the search engine use the e-commerce service as a payment option for applications purchased through Google’s Android Market. Apple, meanwhile, hired an expert in […]

Lost in the gloss of Facebook’s Places announcement and its impact on Foursquare and Gowalla is that Microsoft Bing is providing the mapping technology for the social network giant’s location service on Facebook.com. Yet Bing still stands to lose valuable traffic from Facebook Places to search king Google because Google Maps provides the mapping technology […]

Google has sold out of its Nexus One smartphone, making one inclined to think it was more popular among developers than it was among consumers. Three weeks after receiving its last shipment of Nexus Ones for consumers, Google Aug. 5 made its Nexus One smartphone its official phone for developers. Developers could purchase the device […]

Google Aug. 19 opened Chrome Web Store to developers in a preview, preparing for an October launch to the public. Developers can upload apps, package them and install them in Chrome using the latest Chrome dev channel. They may also integrate Google’s payments and user authentication technology. Google May 19 introduced the Chrome Web Store […]

Despite complaints from some consumer advocates about the privacy measures in Facebook Places, the Electronic Frontier Foundation called privacy controls for the location-based service a “substantial improvement” over those of earlier products. That praise from the EFF comes with the caveat that Facebook Places settings are only good if users understand them and judiciously use […]

Google Aug. 19 announced that more than 100 million people per month are using its Google Maps application from a mobile phone to get directions and find local businesses. The news about Google Maps for mobile came one day after Facebook unveiled its Places application, and many believe Google’s trumpeting of user numbers is no […]