Clint Boulton

Skype continues to be one of the biggest headaches for a parent company. In a legal dispute that may delay eBay’s plans to spin off its Skype Web calling service and is certainly forcing eBay to write its own software, Skype and startup Joltid are suing each over a dispute about software source code Joltid […]

It remains to be seen whether Apple and AT&T will rue the day they decided to punt phone management application Google Voice and Google Voice third-party applications from Apple’s App Store, which hosts more than 65,000 applications for Apple’s smash-hit iPhone smartphone. No one is quite sure whether to blame Apple or AT&T for the […]

Google Checkout may not be the successful payment processing platform Google hoped it would become, but the company keeps trying to leverage it in other ways. Yesterday, the search engine brought us the Google Checkout store gadget from Google Labs, mashing up Checkout with Google Docs to let anyone create an online store using a […]

WizeHive, a currently free online collaboration tool that lets users share notes, ideas, files and other content to manage projects, has gotten a new look and a number of other changes. The software boosts the number of files that can be uploaded at one time from one to 50, and the maximum uploaded file size […]

Google was kind enough to invite me to a demonstration of the developer preview of Google Wave, straight from the Wave creators themselves. Google Wave co-creators Lars and Jens Rasmussen last night treated a small group of journalists to the Wave experience in the Wave sandbox live from Google’s San Francisco office. I found the […]

In a sign of just how seriously Google is taking Microsoft’s latest search challenge, Marissa Mayer, Google vice president of search products and user experience, said Microsoft’s Bing search engine is a strong competitor even though Google is the search engine market leader at 65 percent. During a Digg Dialogg with Digg co-founder Kevin Rose […]

As I mentioned last weekend would happen, Digg co-founder Kevin Rose interviewed Google’s Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, July 29. This was a Digg Dialogg, which meant Digg users “dug” the 10 best questions, which Rose posed to Mayer in a taped session in San Francisco. Here is the full, […]

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find someone who doesn’t believe Yahoo engaged in slow-moving suicide with the 10-year search and search ad deal it struck with Microsoft July 29. For starters, there was no upfront payment of billions of dollars, despite early reports claiming Microsoft would pay Yahoo $3 billion […]

If Microsoft and Yahoo are to consummate their search and search ad agreement by early 2010 to start chipping away at market leader Google’s 65 percent market share, they are going to have to run through quite the gauntlet of opposition. Google hasn’t said much about the July 29 agreement beyond the fact that it […]

Press and blogger corps (myself included) are falling all over themselves to write about how Microsoft and Yahoo finally did it. The companies finally banded together to take on Google, the search engine lion with 65 percent (or 70, depending on who you believe, with 78 percent of paid search according to Microsoft’s legal eagle […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he expects Google, not antitrust authorities, to provide the stiffest competition to its search and search ad deal with Yahoo, which Microsoft and Yahoo formalized July 29. In the deal, which the companies expect to close in early 2010, Microsoft’s Bing search engine will power Yahoo’s search. Yahoo will become […]

Microsoft and Yahoo officially inked on July 29 the search ad deal everyone’s been talking about: Microsoft agreed to power Yahoo’s search engine, and Yahoo agreed to become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ search advertisers. Microsoft will pay Yahoo will pay traffic acquisition costs (TACs) to Yahoo at an initial rate […]