Clint Boulton

Yahoo is well into its integration with Microsoft to make Bing its algorithmic search engine, but the Internet company is still responsible for the search user interface. Yahoo Aug. 6 said it is previewing Infinite Browse, a new module for Yahoo News that adds relevant search content, such as images, videos and slide shows below […]

Motorola will upgrade its popular Droid X smartphone to Google’s Android 2.2 operating system in early September, the phone maker said on its support forums. A Motorola Forums Manager named Matt made the revelation in response to a concern about the lack of e-mail notifications for people using Microsoft Exchange 2003 on the Droid X. […]

Google Wave may have crashed on the beach of consumer indifference, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the real-time collaboration platforms will be lost at sea. Novell Systems, battling Google, Microsoft and IBM over enterprise software contracts, said it will continue working to bring its Novell Pulse real-time collaboration platform to the market despite […]

Google Aug. 6 said it agreed to acquire social application provider Slide, a move that strengthens rumors the search engine is gearing up for a major social networking assault versus Facebook. Google did not say how much it paid for the private company, but TechCrunch claimed the deal was worth $228 million, including $46 million […]

So Google Wave is on life support, as many of you must have seen if you follow Google as closely as I do. In the spirit of taking up Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s claim that Google “celebrates our failures” (newly minted in the department of positive executive spin), Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan couldn’t resist […]

A good way to determine how smartphone use is picking up in the corporate workplace is to look at the uptick in software purchased to manage mobile devices. Good Technology, which competes with Research In Motion as a maker of software for securing and managing e-mail on mobile devices, said it has tacked on more […]

Google August 5 made its Nexus One smartphone its official phone for developers, three weeks after receiving its last shipment of the device from HTC. Google has offered unlocked phones to registered Android developers to test the operating system and applications since launching Android more than two years ago. Now developers can buy the Nexus […]

The Federal Communications Commission on Aug. 5 broke off broadband policy discussions with Google, Verizon, Skype and AT&T, citing too much disagreement. “We have called off this round of stakeholder discussions,” said FCC Chief of Staff Edward Lazarus. “It has been productive on several fronts, but has not generated a robust framework to preserve the […]

Google and Verizon Wireless Aug. 5 said they are not striking a deal to accelerate online content to Internet users more quickly for fees. The New York Times stated that Google is working with Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are willing to pay for such […]

Roughly two weeks ago, media (and Microsoft, quietly) jeered when Google missed its implementation deadline with the city of Los Angeles for its Google Apps contract. Google last year positioned this contract, which is supposed to provide the city’s 34,000 workers with e-mail and other collaboration applications, as a shining example of how the Google […]

LinkedIn Aug. 4 agreed to buy recommendation software startup mSpoke to boost its social network of more than 75 million users. Financial terms for the deal, LinkedIn’s first purchase, were not disclosed. mSpoke makes three core products for content publishers, research analysts and individuals: mPower, mTrend and mSense. mPower includes widgets and personalized e-mails that […]

Google Waves Failure: 10 Reasons Why by Clint Boulton Learning Curve E-mail is simple. Load the client, click new or compose, type your message, and send. Wave is so much more, with users creating “waves” or sessions for spontaneous collaboration. This learning curve proved too steep. Wave was so complex celebrated techie Gina Trapani published […]