Clint Boulton

With all of the smack-talking and chest-bumping going on between Google’s enterprise team and Microsoft’s Office group, it’s easy to forget about other cloud computing vendors who may be affected by Microsoft’s launch of Office 2010 May 12. Office 2010 includes Office Web Apps, a cloud computing-based component of its productivity software suite designed to […]

Google May 14 began rolling out its free Google Voice phone management application to students in the United States, aiming to tap into a potentially rich pool of hundreds of thousands of new users. Google Voice lets users route calls to their home, work and mobile phones from a special Google-granted number, and make low-cost […]

If the latest rumors of a tablet tie-up with Google are true, Verizon Wireless seems to be looking to be to Google’s Android platform what AT&T is to Apple’s iPhone and eventually, its iPad. Google and Verizon are becoming bosom buddies. Verizon already enjoys offering phones based on Google’s popular Android mobile operating system, backing […]

Google and General Motors may pair smartphones based on the Android operating system with GM’s OnStar driver roadside assistance service, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal’s sources said the deal would allow users to access OnStar, which performs such tasks as automatically alerting emergency officials in the event of an accident, from their […]

The next version of Google’s mobile operating system is expected to be launched at Google I/O next week, but details of Froyo, as Android 2.2 is known, are emerging early. Adobe and Google have already confirmed Android 2.2 supports Flash 10.1, and rumors hold that Froyo will also reduce fragmentation. It also appears Google Android […]

Wikipedia launched a major redesign May 13, adding easier navigation, better search and improved editing features after hard-core testing by a beta group of 635,000 people. Working under the theme “Vector,” the Wikimedia Foundation User Experience team improved navigation for reading and editing pages. Tabs at the top of each page more clearly define whether […]

Google Squared is a nifty Google Labs feature that pulls unstructured data from the Web and ties it together in a spreadsheet-like chart: The company is now trying to incorporate this technology — but not the aesthetic — into its search engine results pages, whose front door user interface has gotten several improvements (or detriments, […]

Mozilla Firefox 4 Browser Offers Better Performance, HTML5 Support by Clint Boulton Firefox 4 Firefox 4 will eventually arrive as the successor and technological follow-up to Firefox 3.7. Revising the User Experience Version 4 of the browser will sport fewer controls and faster navigation. Creating a New Default Theme Firefox 4’s default theme will have […]

Google May 11 brought its biking directions feature to Google Maps 4.2 for Android, along with the ability to share places with friends for smartphones using Android 1.6 and higher. Google introduced biking directions on its desktop version of Google Maps March 9, but conspicuously left out the feature for smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone […]

Analysts have varying opinions about whether Google’s Webstore is a failure in the wake of Verizon and Sprint’s decisions to nix the Google Nexus One smartphone on their respective networks. Sprint reignited the theme May 10 when it confirmed it would not support the Android 2.1-based Nexus One on its network. The company told eWEEK […]

Verizon Wireless confirmed it is working with Google to offer consumers a tablet computer based on Google’s Android operating system, putting Apple’s iPad squarely in their crosshairs. Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam told the Wall Street Journal (paywall warning) about its tablet plans May 11. Verizon spokespeople confirmed the plans but declined to say who is […]

Cloud Sherpas, which resells and supports Google Apps Premier Edition for medium to large enterprises, on May 11 announced that it will release a set of premium access management features for its SherpaTools application for Google Apps administrators. Cloud Sherpas in March released SherpaTools, which includes free software modules that make GAPE easier to manage […]