Clint Boulton

Don’t think that Google and other providers of word processing software aren’t watching the Microsoft vs. i4i case with interest. Here’s a rundown as covered by my eWEEK colleagues if you haven’t been following Microsoft’s latest legal headache. Last week, on Aug. 11, a U.S. district court in Texas issued a permanent injunction barring Microsoft […]

Another customer relationship management tool has come to the fore in the form of CureCRM, a hosted software solution that tracks prospect and customer conversations in e-mail applications and Twitter and triggers a CRM engagement on the fly. CureCRM, which launched to the general public Aug. 18, also includes an automated, e-mail-based scheduling assistant. This […]

MySpace on Aug. 19 said it has agreed to purchase music recommendation service iLike, which soared to popularity on Facebook, allegedly for $20 million. iLike, which tracks what users listen to and provides music recommendations based on that data as well as what their friends enjoy, will be unaffected by the acquisition in the short […]

A former hedge fund manager made the most compelling case yet for who was behind Apple’s ban of the Google Voice call management application from its iPhone App Store. Here’s a hint: It wasn’t Apple. In “Why AT&T Killed Google Voice,” an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, Andy Kessler makes […]

Yesterday I drew some ire from Android fans for pointing to John Gruber’s post on the opportunity before Android phone makers. Gruber’s post pointed to posts from three developers who have sampled Android-based phones and found them unequal to Apple iPhone for mobile computing tasks. I also wondered if the Android open-source, multiple-phones-for-multiple-tastes approach was […]

For the second straight year, Google scored an 86 to blow away all other search engines and portals in the American Customer Satisfaction Index E-Business report, a highly regarded survey taken by ForeSee Results and released Aug. 18 by the University of Michigan. Google search rivals Yahoo and Microsoft also held the same scores from […]

Geeks should be gaga over the new bookmark sync tool in the latest developer channel build for Google Chrome. For those not in the loop, bookmark sync enables users to port the same bookmarks across all of their personal computers. It also stores the bookmarks alongside Google Docs. This is a big deal. Most people […]

Transmedia CEO and Chairman Donald Leka isn’t buying the recent talk about the Apple iPhone being superior to the T-Mobile G1 based on Google’s Android mobile operating system. Leka uses both the iPhone and the G1 and said he finds the G1 superior for Web browsing. Weighing that fact and Apple’s unpredictable iPhone App Store […]

With all of the hullabaloo created over the weekend by Google Chief Economist Hal Varian’s claim that scale is bogus, I found it interesting that Varian today announced that Google has upgraded its Google Insights for Search keyword analytics tool. Google Insights for Search gauges scaling query volumes to help users spot search trends and […]

Did Google err by unleashing its mobile operating system to open source and letting hardware manufacturers and phone carriers decide what Android smartphones get built? Has Google damned Android to the uncontrollable, unpredictable machinations of too many parties with too many moving parts and disparate agendas? Is the go-to-market strategy phone makers are practicing for […]

Is Google’s support system crumbling for its Google Book Search settlement? Faculty members for the University of California, which publicly supported the deal when it was announced in October 2008, are concerned the deal does not adequately satisfy the needs of academic authors, and that the Authors Guild that agreed to the deal terms with […]

One analyst has said she believes RockMelt, the Web browser serial entrepreneur Marc Andreessen and his engineering colleagues are developing for world-beating social network Facebook, could bring new revenue opportunities for Facebook and its long tail of application developers. Little is known about RockMelt, although New York Times suggested the browser would store Facebook user […]