Clint Boulton

News Analysis: As eWEEK reported earlier this morning, Cisco Systems Nov. 9 jumped into the hosted e-mail and enterprise social networking arenas, challenging Google, Microsoft, IBM and a legion of smaller startups. Cisco WebEx Mail is a hosted e-mail application that lets customers move from Microsoft Exchange but continue to access e-mail through an Outlook […]

Rupert Murdoch says in this video he would make News Corp’s paid content invisible from Google: How? News Corp could add a couple of code snippets (”) to the Robot.text file to go dark to Google and other search engines. But if you do, Google warned in July: “Today, more than 25,000 news organizations across […]

Cisco Nov. 9 embarked on its largest collaboration product launch to date, covering products from IP phones to media servers to unified communications. The launch theme for today’s Cisco Collaboration Summit is “intercompany collaboration,” to allow partners and customers to exchange information across firewalls, rather than just enabling employees within businesses and workgroups to work […]

Google and the authors and publishers with which it is trying to settle a five-year copyright feud on Nov. 9 asked the judge hearing the case for another delay so that they can make the deal more palatable for the Department of Justice. Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers asked New […]

10 Tips to Make Facebook Easier to Navigate by Clint Boulton E-mail Alerts We can’t be logged into Facebook 24/7 to see everything that happens. Or at least not without our brain becoming mush. E-mail notifications help keep us connected even when we’re not, well, connected. To manage e-mail notifications, select the “Settings” link in […]

Google moved to fill a hole in its advertising arsenal Nov. 9 when it purchased mobile display advertising power AdMob for $750 million in stock. AdMob’s technology platform helps customize digital display advertisements to small screens on smartphones, whose full Internet browsers make them a rich, new playground for mobile ads. The company soared to […]

People are spending more time on the Internet-searching more, shopping more and perhaps even working more online. ComScore Nov. 6 said some 27 billion hours were spent on the Internet by 1.2 billion worldwide Internet users in September 2009, or 24 percent more than the 21.7 billion total hours people spent in September 2008. The […]

News Analysis: With Google Dashboard, Google again finds itself in a no-win situation. In a utopian world, the search engine would be roundly praised for providing a window into the data users generate from using Google applications. Yet whenever Google puts a foot forward, advertising its action using keywords like “transparency,” “openness” and “privacy,” the […]

Google Nov. 5 partnered with Best Buy to let the retailer install Google Mobile applications on smartphones that it sells to consumers right in the store. Google Mobile App is a free mobile application users can download to their smartphone to Google Search by voice, use Google Search with My Location and access other Google […]

In addition to celebrating the 40th anniversary of “Sesame Street” by placing Burt and Ernie where its Doodles would be, Google started promoting the new Motorola Droid, which launched today from Verizon Wireless (also available for purchase at Best Buy). Click on the “Learn more” link and you’ll be whisked to this Google Mobile partners […]

What do you do when you’re a small startup that releases a Web application, only to have something strikingly similar come along from a large, established vendor? That’s the position Reframe It found itself in when Google launched its Sidewiki Web annotation service Sept. 23. Sidewiki is a browser sidebar that can be installed and […]

Twitter Nov. 5 began the slow rollout of its retweet button and said it is going tighten up its trend technology, the latter a move to stymie spammers. The retweet button does what many Twitter users have already seen from other services such as TweetMeme: It blasts out tweets users are fond of to their […]