Clint Boulton

Dimdim, which provides open source Web conferencing software users access through their browser, Sept. 2 released an application that lets businesses host webinars with up to 1,000 people. Dimdim Webinar lets users attend a webinar with one click on a URL. This is a departure from Cisco’s WebEx and Citrix’ GotoWebinar online meeting applications, which […]

Google’s Gmail application was knocked out for the majority of users for 100 minutes on Sept. 1 due to human error, the company said last night after the Gmail engineering team fixed the issue. Google took a small fraction of Gmail’s servers offline to perform routine upgrades. Google does this regularly, sending traffic to other […]

Now that eBay has agreed to sell 65 percent of VOIP specialist Skype to Silver Lake and other investors for $1.9 billion in cash and a $125 million loan from eBay, there remains the question of what sort of risk the investors are taking. Skype licenses its core technology from Joltid, a peer-to-peer company owned […]

Is anyone else everyone seeing this when they go to Gmail? Gmail outage 9-1.png Indeed, a trip to the Google Apps status dashboard reveals these messages and offers an alternative way to access your e-mail through POP3 and IMAP: Gmail down 2.png Gmail Engineering Director David Besbris blogged on it here and offered his condolences, […]

The Google Apps team, which seems to launch new features for its software as a service applications every other week, is preparing for a busy fall of new features in an increasingly complex collaboration software market. Not only is the company chasing Microsoft Office and SharePoint applications from below, but Microsoft in 2010 will begin […]

GigaOm’s Om Malik stirred the pot when he used data from AdMob to conclude there are $200 million worth of applications sold in Apple’s iPhone App Store every month. That would make it a $2.4 billion-per-year business, the largest mobile app market no one is talking about! Meanwhile, Malik said the rival Google Android Market […]

Google said August 31 that Sony is bundling the Chrome Web browser on its Sony laptop computers, the search engine company’s first such bundling deal to help the now one year-old browser reach more users. Sony did not respond to requests for comment but a Google spokesperson confirmed to eWEEK that Sony is bundling Chrome. […]

MindTouch Sept. 1 released a packaged solution to help companies open their product and company documentation to contribution from outside users while protecting companies from spam and other security threats. A sort of Wikipedia for enterprises, the MindTouch Collaborative Knowledge Base lets businesses allow customers or partners with little or no technical savvy to co-edit […]

Consumer advocates concerned about what they see as the erosion of Web surfers’ online privacy urged Congress on Sept. 1 to crack down on behavioral targeting and asked the Federal Trade Commission to set up a registry to let users opt out of data collection. Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft employ behavioral […]

ComScore just issued global search share numbers for July. Google leads with 67.5 percent of the search market and 76.7 billion queries. But here is the best stat: The global search market was up 41 percent from a year ago. Wow! I fleshed out the details on eWEEK here, and here is the ComScore release. […]

Consumer advocacy groups Sept. 1 plan to attack behavioral targeting practices from search engines and other Internet companies in a press conference call designed to catch the ear of Congress, which is drafting legislation to better protect Web surfers’ privacy. The Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Watchdog, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and seven other groups […]

10 Tips for Using Google Chrome by Clint Boulton Dang! I Didnt Mean to Close That Tab We’ve all done it: closed a browser tab before we meant to. Chrome makes it easy for users to restore tabs. Check out this ESPN.com story on Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez. Restore Your Tab from Recent Activities The […]