Clint Boulton

The digital ink barely dried on Google’s blog post to announce the coming of Chrome operating system July 7, when journalists and bloggers ran stories suggesting Google CEO Eric Schmidt should remove himself from Apple’s board of directors for violating U.S. antitrust rules. The argument renewed a debate that began in earnest in May when […]

Google SMS text chat is back in Gmail after being knocked out for three weeks. The experimental feature in the Gmail Chat menu, which lets users send text messages from their computers to their contacts’ mobile phones, went out for users June 24 around 3 p.m. PDT and had been down for the count since. […]

10 Concerns We Have About Google Chrome OS by Clint Boulton Another Operating System? Forget the battle of Linux versus Windows versus Apple. Does the computing world really need another operating system? Google proposes Chrome OS as lightweight and designed to serve Web apps. Most consumers don’t even know what that means. If Chrome OS […]

In a sign that Microsoft isn’t putting all of its search engine eggs in its Bing basket, executives from Redmond are working to hammer out a search and online advertising deal with Yahoo. Microsoft may pay Yahoo several billion dollars to take over its search advertising business and guarantee certain payments back to Yahoo, according […]

The Google Docs guys are making changes to the word processing application and have promised to roll them out over the next few weeks. Some bloggers think the Docs guys are knee-jerking from the accolades Microsoft has been getting over the software maker’s Office Web answer to Google Apps. I agree, but it’s also high […]

Google’s Chrome Operating System, the forthcoming Linux-based platform for netbooks, will be released under an open-source license in 2010, but don’t tell Google CEO Eric Schmidt that the company won’t make any money off it. “We do not plan to charge for it, in an open-source form,” Schmidt told financial analysts during the second-quarter earnings […]

On July 15 the Google Reader team launched a “like” feature (along with other changes) that lets users click on a button to give the thumbs-up for any item in Reader. These “likes” are public, so anyone reading an item you’ve “liked” in Reader can see that you’re a fan based on your Google profile. […]

Imagine being away from your Microsoft Outlook account for four months. Sounds peaceful, right? Now imagine coming back to it, only to find more than 8,500 messages. That’s the situation I faced last month after returning to eWEEK after a four-month-plus hiatus. When I loaded Outlook 2007 on the new laptop IT gave me, more […]

Google yesterday pumped out a new location-based update to its suite of mobile applications, this time for the latest iteration of Apple’s iPhone software. Search with My Location for iPhone 3.0 lets users enter search queries from their iPhone, and receive results that home in on their location to find local businesses. Yes, Google’s My […]

Rebounding from a lackluster first quarter, on July 16 Google reported a second-quarter profit of $1.48 billion on $4.66 per share, a 19 percent growth over $1.25 billion in profit on $3.92 per share from the second quarter of 2008. The search engine giant, which is fending off renewed competition from Microsoft’s Bing search engine, […]

Labs Gallery: A Look at Advanced Search in Xobni Plus by Clint Boulton Xobni Plus The Xobni Plus upgrade offer sits in a button in the bottom Xobni tool bar, right under the appointments feature, which is a new indexing option the company offers for Xobni Plus subscribers. Search Builder Have you ever had a […]

By now you’ve seen the various blogs and news coverage of Google Voice for Mobile, the mobile app that lets users make Google Voice calls and send SMS messages from their BlackBerry and Android smartphones. Get the app here. Google Voice calls to friends, family and colleagues will now appear on caller ID with your […]