Clint Boulton

Google this week took additional steps to let users crowdsource its Google Maps application, allowing U.S. users to point out gaps in the search engine giant’s Google Maps coverage. Now, when users search and scan map results, they will see a “report a problem” link on the bottom right of a the map, or by […]

You had to know this would happen. Almost two weeks after AT&T accused Google of violating network neutrality principles by allowing its Google Voice phone management application to block calls to rural telephone exchanges, Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives picked up the rallying cry. In a letter to the Federal Communications […]

News Analysis: Big things are happening at Twitter. Last week, Twitter started rolling out its geolocation API to limited testing, enabling developers to add latitude and longitude for tweets. Twitter last week also announced the coming of Lists, which lets users curate lists of Twitter accounts. And just today, AllThingsDigital reported that Twitter is negotiating […]

Google late yesterday rolled out some fine new search features: Google Search Options for Apple’s iPhone, Android and Palm WebOS smartphones and quick view of PDFs in Google search. The mobile Search Options are versions of the search filter and refinement tools Google rolled out first in May and expanded last week. Available in the […]

IBM made good on its May pledge to bring native support for Apple’s iPhone to its Lotus Domino 8.5.1 messaging server, via the Lotus Notes Traveler mobile device software. Thanks to IBM Lotus Notes Traveler’s support for Microsoft’s ActiveSync protocol, e-mail, contacts and calendar data from Lotus Domino will “push,” or synchronize over the air […]

Top 10 Complaints About Google Wave by Clint Boulton Dont Believe the Hype Wave is not the new killer Internet application. It is not a replacement for Twitter, FriendFeed or Facebook. It’s instant messaging and distributed editing in real time—collaboration on steroids, perhaps, but not the new Twitter. Its Total Chaos! If you’ve used Wave, […]

Reuters and The Wall Street Journal (paywall warning) are reporting that New York District Judge Denny Chin in a status hearing today ordered that changes to the Google Book Search settlement must be presented in court by Nov. 9. Google Book Search is the pending pact between Google and the Authors Guild and the Association […]

Microsoft Bing is swooning a bit, with its U.S. search share falling from 9.49 percent in August to 8.99 percent in September, according to figures from HitWise released Oct. 6. Google in September recorded 71 percent of U.S. searches, up from 70.2 percent in August. Yahoo dipped 3 percent, from 16.9 percent to 16.4 percent, […]

Despite the nagging recession, a new study found that 94 percent of enterprises plan to maintain or increase their investment in enterprise social media tools such as blogs, wikis and microblogging tools. Deloitte, Beeline Labs and the Society for New Communications Research surveyed 400 companies that have cultivated internal social networks or online communities, finding […]

The collaboration of Google and Verizon Wireless could be just as formidable as the combination of Apple and AT&T in extending the mobile Internet, analysts said. Google and Verizon Wireless Oct. 6 agreed to co-create smartphones, PDAs, netbooks, application and services, effectively pairing the Internet search and Web services leader and the No. 1 U.S. […]

We already know that Microsoft is dead set on making Bing match, or even best, Google in search across the board. We’ve watched the Bing team, supported by a multimillion-dollar marketing push, pump out innovation after innovation since its June launch, including indexing Twitter tweets, shared search and visual search experiments. Yesterday, in support of […]

Many of us who work in high-tech have family that we consider so-called civilians. Civilians to us are those computer users who are not only non-geeks, but are so far out of the loop on high-tech mechanics that they use Microsoft Word, but don’t know enough to call it a word processing application. They just […]