Clint Boulton

Gist, the free Web application that lets users manage their personal and professional contacts in Microsoft Outlook, Gmail and Salesforce.com, now lets users access their Facebook activity stream. Gist aggregates the network information in users’ e-mail inboxes, analyzes the contacts, then ranks and prioritizes the importance of contacts based on the frequency and timing of […]

Google and Apple are engaged in application guerilla warfare. Google Feb. 18 acquired reMail, a startup whose application downloads users’ e-mail to their Apple iPhone and lets users conduct full-text e-mail search. The purchase was first reported by reMail founder Gabor Cselle, a former Google engineering intern who will be rejoining Google as a product […]

Microsoft and Yahoo’s crucial search agreement passed muster with both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, enabling the rivals to partner and gang up on search engine whale Google. Microsoft and Yahoo said in a statement they will begin implementing the deal in the coming days, with Yahoo shuttling its algorithmic and […]

Today, Feb. 18 may be Judgment Day for Google’s Book Search settlement, which has been more than five years in the making. Google, authors and publishers are expected to hear Denny Chin, a judge for the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, hold a fairness hearing for the deal, which calls […]

Yesterday, the blogosphere was abuzz with Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Mobile World Congress demo of translation capabilities in the Google Goggles visual search application. Hartmut Neven, the man who assisted Schmidt with the demo at MWC in Barcelona, Spain, also released a YouTube demo clip of this feature. This integration connects an Android smartphone’s camera […]

Name a Web company that can have its employees leave, create new products, and then the company buys them out when they realize those employees were on to something. Google, that’s who! Just look at Google’s last two acquisitions of Aardvark and AppJet, which have more in common than starting with the letter “A.” Aardvark, […]

The Google executive overseeing Google Buzz, the product that triggered perhaps the biggest privacy backlash ever against the search engine, said Google did not anticipate the strong protest over user privacy the company faced in the week since Buzz launched. Google launched Google Buzz Feb. 9 to let users post status updates, links, photos and […]

Top 10 Free Google Android Productivity Apps Top 10 Free Google Android Productivity Appsby Clint Boulton Byte Spreadsheet Compatible with Microsoft Excel and other XLS programs, Spreadsheet from Byte Squared is a professional spreadsheet program for Android. OI File Manager From OpenIntents, this File Manager lets users browse their SD card, create directories, as well […]

Is Google gunning for Amazon and eBay? New York Times report that Google has hired a former eBay executive as vice president of commerce. Stephanie Tilenius has been tapped for the new position, about which next to nothing appears to be known. Miguel Helft wrote: “People close to Google said Ms. Tilenius would oversee Google […]

News Analysis: When Google released its Google Buzz social sharing service Feb. 9, it became natural to speculate whether Buzz would threaten Facebook in the social networking arena. It won’t because, simply, users have become quite comfortable with Facebook and some of the 400 million users have generated a lot of content there in the […]

VoxOx, which fancies itself as an alternative to Skype and Google Voice by letting users make phone calls via the Web, has integrated a language translation capability directly into its service. VoxOx gives users a dedicated number and lets them make calls from PC to PC, as well as from PCs to landlines and mobile […]

The European Commission is expected to approve Microsoft and Yahoo’s landmark, 10-year search deal designed to put a stop to Google’s search dominance, according to Reuters. Any opposition to Microsoft and Yahoo’s search agreement may have to come from the United States. Microsoft and Yahoo last July announced a deal in which Microsoft’s Bing search […]