Clint Boulton

News Analysis: Journalists were star-struck yesterday as they scrambled to cover Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook now “serves 300 million people across the world.” Putting that McDonalds’ marketing speak aside, Facebook has pulled a lot closer to Google in 2009. No, Facebook is not a search engine and it does not claim to […]

Google’s Android team Sept. 15 released to developers Android 1.6, the oft-blogged about Donut branch build from the Android open-source project. As expected, the build supports CDMA with new telephony APIs, as well as QVGA and WVGA screen resolutions to enable greater application coverage on more Android devices. There is also a Quick Search Box, […]

After spotting Donut in the wild, Google’s Android team released the Android 1.6 Donut version, with its own, crude logo: Donut_droid.png I covered the features on eWEEK here this morning, but in brief they include CDMA capability, the ability to conform to QVGA and WVGA screen resolutions, a Quick Search Box and, most importantly, text-to-speech […]

While Google’s Data Liberation Front Website is intended to educate consumers about how they can move data to and from Google applications such as Gmail and Blogger, it will be worth watching the effect the effort will have on Google Apps. The Data Liberation Front consists of a special team of six Google engineers whose […]

Corporate knowledge workers may find themselves overwhelmed by the many networks they have joined, and some startups are looking to alleviate these information overload pains with software tools that help users manage their inboxes. Gist launched as a beta Sept. 15 with a new twist on e-mail management. While applications such as Xobni help users […]

Google Labs Sept. 14 unleashed Google Fast Flip, which the company hopes will speed up the way readers read online news while yielding more advertising dollars for the publishers that participate in the experiment. As the name suggests, Fast Flip is designed to make the news Web browsing more like the way readers turn the […]

Jive Software Sept. 15 moved to help business users drill down into the most relevant social media conversations with Jive Market Engagement, which lets marketers get a handle on what users are saying about their brands online. Jive Market Engagement bundles Jive’s SAAS Social Business Software platform with real-time social media monitoring tools from Radian6, […]

Earlier this morning, I chronicled the emergence of Google Fast Flip from Google Labs. Here, I’m providing a first run-through of the experimental service, which lets news readers surf through news publications online with startling speed. The home screen shows Web pages from publications in a similar fashion to Google Chrome’s representation on its New […]

Google, which is seeking broader adoption of its Google Apps collaboration applications, said Sept. 15 it plans to create a dedicated cloud computing system for the U.S. government in 2010. The government cloud will include the Web services in Google Apps, a suite that comprises Gmail, Google Docs and other SAAS (software as a service) […]

In a belated celebration of Google Chrome’s first birthday, Google on Sept. 15 released a stable build of its Web browser that boasts the speed bumps and features introduced in the Chrome 3.0.195.4 beta release in August. A year ago, Google Chrome marked the search engine giant’s entry into the competitive Web browser market, going […]

Gist Launches as Personal Relationship Manager Gist is a new Web service that trolls the Web for individual and company profiles with the latest information from social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, over 20 million blogs, and over 50,000 news sources. The service, which aims to go beyond the e-mail management and search […]

Angling to give Web surfers another, easier way to find what they are looking for, Microsoft’s Bing search team introduced a visual search option today, Sept. 14. No, this isn’t another take on image search. But it does use images to help users find results. Bing Visual Search lets users type in a query as […]