Clint Boulton

British Telecom’s Ribbit cloud computing division brought its Web phone application to the mobile device market Nov. 3 in the form of Ribbit Mobile, which lets users manage calls and messages to mobile phones from their computers. If that thrust sounds like services such as Google Voice and VoxOx, that’s because it is similar. Ribbit […]

Handheld device maker Peek Nov. 3 launched TwitterPeek, a mobile device designed to let users send tweets and direct messages from the leading microblog service without incurring the data costs associated with texting on smartphones. TwitterPeek is available exclusively from Amazon.com here for $99.95. The purchase price includes 6 months of unlimited Twitter service, a […]

Google Nov. 2 rolled out a beta of Chrome 4.0 with the much-requested bookmark sync tool to enable Chrome’s 30 million-plus users to keep their favorite Web pages up to date across multiple computing devices. The idea is fairly obvious these days; most users have computers they use at home and computers they use at […]

Google Nov. 2 made its Google Wave Federation Protocol available to let would-be wave providers build their own Wave servers and get them communicating with other Wave servers, similar to the way e-mail servers talk to one another. Google wave is currently letting more than 100,000 users send each other instant messages, share files and […]

I’ve written extensively about how Google is improving Google Maps, adding new layers on a weekly basis. Microsoft is getting help from its partners to boost the value proposition of Bing Maps. Specifically, Weather.com, which uses Bing Maps over Google Maps, has created an interesting feature to deliver its weather-oriented maps to users. The Futures […]

Xobni Nov. 2 took the plunge into the business market, releasing a secure version of its e-mail search plug-in to let IT administrators give their employees an easy way to sift through content in their Microsoft Outlook inboxes. Xobni Enterprise is shipping with prebuilt extensions for Salesforce CRM and Microsoft SharePoint, enabling Xobni to pull […]

Google Wave, which began rolling out to 100,000 new users one month ago, has thrown a lot of people for a loop, rocking even some tech-savvy folks back on their heels. eWEEK has noted some of the gripes, including the multiuser editing, which enables several users to edit a document at the same time. This […]

Two companies are angling for a chunk of the real-time collaboration market Google has cultivated interest in with Google Wave, the platform that blends instant messaging, file sharing, live editing and social networking. PBworks and startup Watchitoo Nov. 2 launched real-time collaboration platforms for business users. The real-time collaboration update to the PBworks platform will […]

When Twitter Lists began rolling out to the bulk of the microblog service’s 60 million users the week of Oct. 26, eWEEK opined about the impact of the feature, which lets users group Twitter contacts into specific lists. Because other users can view the lists of those they are following and subscribe to them, or […]

News Analysis: If there is a smartphone capable of trumping the overall experience of the Apple iPhone, from hardware to native software to the 100,000 applications created for it, the world hasn’t seen it yet. That’s the conclusion we can safely draw after early reviews of the Google Android operating system-based Motorola Droid, which Verizon […]

It’s not even rolling out to everyone yet, but the Google Voice phone management application already has 1.42 million users, 570,000 of which use it daily, according to a letter Google sent to the Federal Communications Commission this week about its call-blocking behavior. The version that eWEEK saw on the FCC’s Website Oct. 29 was […]

Twitter Lists, a new feature that lets users lump Twitter contacts into various groups, went live as a beta to more users this week and should be available to everyone soon. It’s fairly self-explanatory to seasoned Web services users, but Twitter doesn’t explicitly provide step-by-step instructions on how to create and manage lists on its […]