Clint Boulton

Google slashed the costs of hosted storage for its Picasa and Gmail applications, offering 20 gigabytes (GB) of storage for $5 per year, or twice as much for one quarter of the previous price. For perspective, that’s enough storage for 10,000 high-resolution photos taken with a 5 megapixel camera. For more perspective, Google’s storage costs […]

Google Nov. 11 added the World Bank as a new source of statistical data to its search engine results, letting users mine an internatiional source for stats on such topics as electricity consumption per capita, or carbon dioxide emissions per capita. Google began adding public data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the […]

Google’s Caffeine next-generation search infrastructure won’t be available for the majority of searchers until sometime in January, its lead engineer confirmed Nov. 10. Search geeks and Google users were excited in August when Caffeine’s principal engineer Matt Cutts unveiled a developer sandbox for Caffeine, the company’s next-generation search infrastructure. The sandbox — a developer preview […]

Twitter CEO Evan Williams Nov. 10 took steps to explain how the company’s native retweet feature will surface more relevant information with more clarity than existing retweet services created by TweetMeme, ReTweet and others. Retweet is one of the most popular activities users engage in on Twitter and is complementary to the act of posting […]

Experts say the mobile ad market is too immature, small and fragmented for antitrust regulators to try to quell Google’s bid to buy mobile ad exchange AdMob. When Google bid to buy AdMob for $750 million in stock Nov. 9, the search engine made sure to position the buy as a complement to its existing […]

Google Nov. 10 launched Location History and Location Alerts, features that will make the Google Latitude geolocation service infinitely more useful–and invite scrutiny from privacy critics. Google launched Latitude in February as a new Google Maps feature and iGoogle gadget that lets users see the approximate location of friends who opt to share their location. […]

LinkedIn Nov. 10 agreed to add Twitter’s tweeting capability to its network of 50 million business professionals in a deal for which financial terms were not made public. Soon LinkedIn users will be able to tweet their status to Twitter and to their LinkedIn connections, broadcasting what’s going on with them. Status updates have been […]

So Rupert Murdoch wants News Corp, the big content provider, to shun Google, the leading content aggregation machine, eh? There are lots of opinions on how this would/wouldn’t work. Jason Calacanis blogged about how Microsoft Bing could take 10 percent market share from Google by paying newspapers 50 percent more than they would get from […]

OffiSync Nov. 10 launched a paid version of its Microsoft Office plug-in that lets users access their Microsoft Office documents from the Google Sites wiki as an alternative to Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration platform. OffiSync launched earlier this year with a plug-in for Microsoft Office that lets users access Google Apps, Google Docs and Google search […]

Cisco Nov. 9 unveiled several new solutions at its Cisco Collaboration Summit, most notably Cisco WebEx Mail hosted e-mail and enterprise social networking tools, including Enterprise Collaboration Platform, Show and Share and Pulse. EWEEK detailed the new tools here, and analyzed how they differentiate from tools from Microsoft, IBM, Google and startups here. Yet in […]

News Analysis: While Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL have all purchased mobile ad specialists in the last two years, the remaining players have been waiting for something, anything to galvanize their tender green field and open the door for more partnerships with Internet giants. Google may have granted their wish by agreeing to buy mobile ad […]

On Nov. 6, I published two pieces on Web annotation startup Reframe It, whose leadership is upset because they feel Google Sidewiki comes perilously close to emulating Reframe It’s technology. See the full story here on eWEEK, with the associated screenshots here on Google Watch. SlashDot picked it up, followed by ReadWriteWeb. This issue appears […]