Clint Boulton

News Analysis: This Nexus One Google Phone story is getting out of hand. It’s reminiscient of satirical movies such as the Scary Movie series, Not Another Teen Movie and others that mock slasher and other B-movie fare for teens. A copy of a copy of a copy. Coverage varies from telling us why others are […]

Place Pages on Google Maps continue to get richer and some wonder if that could come at the cost of Yelp and other local search and ratings engines. On Dec. 15, Google added a new feature to let users rank characteristics and services of businesses on their Place Pages, which already offer reviews. This works […]

market shares rise while Yahoo’s plot continued to fall through November 2009, according to statistics comScore released Dec. 15. The market researcher found that Google’s share rose to 65.6 percent for the month, from 65.4 percent in October, while Bing easily crossed double digits to 10.3 percent, compared to 9.9 percent for October. Yahoo, which […]

Leading social network Facebook, which has more than 350 million users worldwide, topped the 100-million-mark for monthly U.S. visitors in November, for the first time in the storied if not controversial history of the nearly 6-year-old company. In reaching that plateau, Facebook.com joined a select group that includes Google Sites, Yahoo Sites and Microsoft Sites, […]

Two weeks after Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Bing unveiled their lists of top searches for 2010, Twitter and YouTube followed suit, with their lists of hottest trends and most watched videos, respectively. For Twitter, the Iranian elections proved to be the hottest topic, with users tweeting about the controversial elections en masse. The terms #iranelection, […]

Google’s future of search is looking incredibly bright, but it’s bound to be more than a little disconcerting for privacy advocates because it means Google will act on the data it collects on users. ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick put Google’s future search focuses, originally relayed by Google’s Marissa Mayer to the Telegraph in three buckets: translated […]

Open source collaboration software maker MindTouch Dec. 15 said it has worked with open source startup SnapLogic on a new solution for enterprise application integration, a very old computing challenge that plagues businesses laden with disparate applications. Traditionally, EAI has helped companies enable applications — CRM applications from one vendor and database apps from another […]

Twitter Dec. 14 said it has begun beta testing a new feature that lets business members tweet from a business account and list their Twitter handles to credit them. Called Contributors, the utility appends the contributor’s username to the tweet byline. In Twitter’s example, if @Twitter invites @Biz to tweet on its behalf, then a […]

Google Dec. 14 launched Goo.gl, a URL shortening service that could one day challenge Bit.ly, TinyURL and others of its ilk for big market share in little URLs. Bit.ly bit back hours later by offering a professional service. URL shortening services like Bit.ly and TinyURL have come into power thanks to Twitter and other services […]

Let Google, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, Zoho and others target the bigger companies with collaboration software hosted as a service. HyperOffice is happy to make and sell applications to help mom-and-pop shops set up virtual offices without IT staffs. The company Dec. 15 launched a private beta version of its HyperOffice Collaboration Suite, refreshing it with […]

Liaise Dec. 15 launched to public beta its Microsoft Outlook inbox management plug-in, which analyzes e-mail content and helps users keep track of crucial business interactions. While Xobni helps users search their Outlook inbox and Gist lets users manage the personal contacts from social networks, Liaise identifies action items from e-mails users type to others. […]

Tips for Searching Google Maps by Clint Boulton Map Search Whether you are looking for retail stores, malls, little boutique gift shops tucked away in the country, hotels or restaurants, Google Maps lets users search to find any place in relation to where you are at the moment or where you plan to go. Click […]