Clint Boulton

Fred Vogelstein, the writer who painted Facebook as a competitive threat to Google in June in Wired, has written another long piece for the magazine that is sure to open eyes, or at the least, raise some eyebrows. When I read the headline, “Why Is Obama’s Top Antitrust Cop Gunning for Google?” this week, I […]

If Microsoft and Yahoo do get in bed together on some sort of search and online advertising deal, it should boost the competition quotient as the companies seek to challenge goliath Google, whose 65 percent of the search engine market share makes it a world beater. While a Microhoo combination could be better for competition […]

Some of the 6,000 programmers Google provided a developer preview for Google Wave, the experimental platform that blends e-mail, instant messaging and social networking in one communications palette, are raving about the application. For most of us who can’t use it, their words are our guide until Sept. 30, which is when Google will set […]

The Google Docs team last week promised to dust off its suite of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation apps. Today, it began the rollout of such new features by adding the ability to import tables from Microsoft Office PowerPoint and insert them in presentations: Docs table 2.png Moreover, the tables will be editable. When you […]

Zoho July 21 integrated its Zoho Mail application and Zoho CRM business application, an effort to improve productivity for users of the software as a service provider’s collaboration and enterprise applications. The move takes aim at Google and Salesforce.com, which sport an integration agreement that lets Salesforce.com CRM users access Google Apps, such as Gmail […]

Earlier today, I wrote about the new Yahoo home page. My requests to toy with the new Yahoo home page in a Yahoo developer sandbox were not met. Here is what we see currently: Yahoo home page current.png I am very anxious to play around with the new Yahoo home page when it becomes available […]

Yahoo July 21 will begin to invite its millions of users to test its new home page, a lively rethinking of one of the most popular Web destinations that lets users integrate their Twitter, Facebook and other popular Web feeds. Yahoo, which will duplicate the new home page for mobile Web browsers, aims to keep […]

I’m not a big moon guy, which has always seemed boring to me given the myth of Mars and little green men, but I have to admire the way Google today is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. The company’s Google Earth team went beyond its purview to create Moon in Google […]

Over the weekend, eWEEK published a piece I wrote quoting legal experts who were befuddled as to why Google CEO Eric Schmidt has not yet removed himself from Apple’s board of directors. The situation began boiling over last spring when the Federal Trade Commission was reported to be scrutinizing whether or not Schmidt was in […]

Lost in all the hullabaloo over YouTube’s approach to profitability following Google’s second-quarter earnings call last week was that desktop ads that Google tailored to the mobile search performance do better than ads created specifically for mobile devices. That’s what Google CEO Eric Schmidt told financial analysts during the second-quarter conference call July 16, when […]

Much is made about Skype and Google Voice, applications that let consumers use the Web as a medium for voice communications, but you don’t tend to hear a lot about business phone systems living entirely in the cloud. RingCentral aims to change that with the introduction of RingCentral Office, a cheaper VOIP (voice over IP) […]

Is Google preparing to mount a defense against federal antitrust regulators? The search engine giant, the frequent target of privacy advocates concerned that it collects too much data on consumers with its ad and Web services, is looking to hire a privacy policy counsel for its Washington, D.C. office. Presumably, this legal eagle would report […]