Clint Boulton

Google has used its search ranking algorithms to create a gadget for Google Calendar that helps busy users track and reschedule meetings. When any of the 25 million Google Apps users installs the Smart Rescheduler gadget from Google Calendar Labs, he or she can select the event to reschedule and click the “Find a New […]

Google, Intel and Sony are working on Google TV, a platform and service that will funnel search, video, Twitter and other Web applications through set-top boxes and onto televisions, according to The New York Times. The report comes days after eWEEK reported that Google was testing a TV service to run TV, Web video from […]

What grinds my gears about the current miniwave of backlash over Google Buzz is that it seems like a lot of psychoanalysis after the fact. Outgoing Federal Trade Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour blasted Google Buzz during the agency’s privacy workshop March 17. A little St. Patrick’s Day send-off before Harbour leaves her post April 6. […]

Google March 17 has improved search and added a widget for the Google Latitude location-sharing application to its latest version of the Google Maps program for mobile phones. Available for smartphones based on Google Android 1.6 and greater, Google Maps for mobile 4.1 has a cleaner search user experience. Google has removed the tabs from […]

Facebook, which recently racked up a 10 percent month-over-month gain in searches for February, is rolling out an auto-suggest feature to its improving search engine. Soon, when users type a query into the search bar, they’ll be offered results for people, Pages, events and groups they’re associated with, as well as the connections of friends […]

Google March 17 released a tool to help Microsoft Exchange customers shuttle their corporate communications data to Google Apps in four steps, the company’s latest salvo versus Microsoft in a simmering collaboration software war. Intended for IT administrators, Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange moves e-mail, calendar and contact data from Microsoft’s Exchange e-mail server […]

Sprint March 17 confirmed it will soon offer Google’s Nexus One smartphone to its subscribers, though the wireless carrier did not say when it will begin offering the device or at what cost. “While a pricing plan has not yet been determined for Nexus One, we are confident that it will be consistent with Sprint’s […]

Google failed in its bid to own the “Nexus One” name for its Android 2.1 smartphone, as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected its application for a trademark on the moniker. “Registration of the applied-for mark is refused because of a likelihood of confusion with the mark in U.S. Registration No. 3554195,” the USPTO […]

How to Migrate to Google Apps from Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes by Clint Boulton Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange This is the latest in a line of tools created to help attract more users to Google Apps. Tool Summary IT administrators can migrate e-mail, calendar and contact data from hosted or on-premises Microsoft Exchange […]

Verizon Wireless will begin upgrading its popular Motorola Droid smartphone to Version 2.1 of Google’s Android mobile operating system March 18, Motorola confirmed. A Motorola spokesperson told eWEEK the upgrade is being deployed to a small number of Verizon Wireless test users that afternoon, with a broader rollout to all Droid users coming shortly thereafter. […]

Twitter March 15 unveiled @anywhere, a service that will extend much of the functionality of its successful microblogging platform to third-party sites such as Amazon.com, Microsoft Bing, Digg and eBay. As the name implies, @anywhere comprises a set of frameworks for adding the Twitter experience — sending tweets, retweets and following users — to any […]

I’ve written often about Google Creep, the notion that the search engine’s tendrils are seeping into every aspect of the Internet realm, from broadband networks (no, really) to social networks (Buzz), to niche Web services such as annotations to ambitious forays into mobile platforms (Android). Some are still waiting for Google to build robots that […]