Clint Boulton

When Microsoft and Yahoo announced their intent to partner on search July 29, they spawned a “boatload” of coverage, to borrow a word Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz used infamously to characterize the money it would require to buy or do a deal for Yahoo’s search. Microsoft and Yahoo made their bid, a 10-year-deal in which […]

Spring Design Oct. 19 unveiled Alex, the first electronic reader based on Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices, one day before Barnes & Noble is expected to unveil its first e-reader. While most e-reader browsers are poorly conceived or even nonexistent on some e-readers, Alex boasts full browser capabilities over Wi-Fi or 3G, EVDO/CDMA […]

There’s no one in the world better equipped to discuss Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration software than Jeff Teper, corporate vice president of the Office Business Platform, who started the SharePoint team 10 years ago. I spoke with Teper ahead of Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference, where Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed the public beta of Microsoft SharePoint Server […]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said on the search engine company’s earnings call last week that Android was about to take off. Time will tell on that score, but if it doesn’t happen it won’t be for lack of trying. Less than two weeks after promising to sell smartphones, netbooks and other devices based on Google’s […]

Zoho Oct. 19 continued its integration with Google Apps, allowing Zoho users to sign into the Zoho Projects application with their Google Apps account and sync content between the companies’ programs. Zoho Projects is the cloud computing software maker’s project management and collaboration application. The program, which got a significant upgrade in July, lets work […]

Google Oct. 18 said it is expanding its Going Google advertising initiative for Google Apps, bringing its collaboration software message to train stations, airports, and print and online publications in the United States, as well as in Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Singapore and the United Kingdom. Google first launched Going Google Aug. 3 as a […]

Google is already letting users model buildings in Google Earth, point out gaps in its Google Maps coverage and alert fellow roadsters to traffic workarounds for Google Maps for Mobile. So it comes as no surprise that the search engine giant is letting users suggest parks, college campuses, malls, zoos, landmarks and other points of […]

If Google thinks it’s going to waltz in and disrupt the electronic book foundation Amazon has laid with its Kindle device, it’s got to do more than just claim it wants to offer electronic books through a Web browser. Oh, and it may have to contend with Apple if it launches that oft-rumored tablet in […]

Google is considering acquiring large and small companies in search, advertising, enterprise, and Web browsing and operating systems, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said during the search engine’s third-quarter conference call Oct. 15. Schmidt opened the door for a lot of speculation in describing the types of purchases he and his corporate development team are eyeing. […]

Twitter Lists, that feature that lets Twitterers group fellow users together and share those with others, has begun rolling out to more users. TechCrunch reports that setting up a list is easy, for those lucky enough to see it. The homepage includes a Lists banner with a “Create a new list” button. Then an overlay […]

The Gmail team keeps making it easier for us to view and trade files. Following what it started in March with YouTube videos, Yelp reviews, and Picasa and Flickr albums, the Gmail Labs folks are now letting us preview Google Docs right in Gmail. Google Docs users can preview the contents of a Google document, […]

In a bit of geeky fun, Google this week celebrated the anniversary of Star Trek’s original pilot episode, and with that, the communicator mobile device Capt. James T. Kirk and his comrades used to chat with each other on the go. Beginning Oct. 12, Google blogged and tweeted tips for using Google Search, Gmail, Google […]