Clint Boulton

The Google and free issue is really heating up. Friday I posted what I thought was a pretty innocuous analysis for eWEEK.com about what Google is doing to its brand with its free Web services and what the coming of Chrome OS will mean. “What Would You Do If Google Web Services Stopped Being Free?” […]

Do you want to follow every Google tweet on Twitter? Now you can. Google’s Karen Wickre, who shepherds the Google Blog & Twitter Team, offered this list earlier today: General: twitter.com/Google – our central account twitter.com/Blogger – for Blogger fans twitter.com/GoogleCalendar – user tips & updates twitter.com/GoogleImages – news, tips, tricks on our visual image […]

Google continues to ratchet up its search engine enhancements this week. This may be business as usual for the search engine giant, but search improvements take on greater importance thanks to the emergence of Microsoft’s Bing search engine. To wit, Google today, July 10, added images complement some of the Google Map results it returns. […]

Google July 9 made another overture to make life easier for Web content creators, adding a new feature to Google Image Search that lets bloggers find free images that are available to share and modify for free. The move constitutes Google’s latest olive branch to artistic license and copyright owners, and could be one of […]

Google’s introduction of Chrome OS, its Linux-based operating system for netbooks, sparked no shortage of questions by reporters and bloggers. You can easily tick off a list of 20 questions and that wouldn’t begin to cover the minutiae and the what-ifs. Long term: Will Chrome OS be a viable competitor to Microsoft Windows? Offered as […]

The biggest piece of hard news out of the “T-Mobile MyTouch 3G with Google Media Event” July 8 was that existing T-Mobile customers could begin preordering the MyTouch 3G, the second U.S. smartphone based on Google’s Android open-source operating system. See great pics of the MyTouch 3G here on eWEEK. Customers can order the device […]

Google engineers were quite vague in their description about what its new Google Chrome OS would look and feel like, telling the high-tech world that the user interface is “minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the Web.” Chrome OS, which has all the reporting world […]

Zoho July 9 released Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Access, a free software add-on to let Microsoft users migrate database information housed on their desktop computers to the Internet cloud. As the moniker suggests, Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Access lets users import their database information from Microsoft Office Access, a database application that sits on Microsoft […]

11:03: The T-Mobile-Google MyTouch 3G Launch event at the Skyline Studios on the west side. This event is a much more casual affair than the G1 launch from last September. There’s no agenda in the USB drive and seemingly no Google people present. Google must be the surprise speakers. Also, the press releases are the […]

For all the market heft that Google’s search delivers, for all of the hype around the Android mobile operating system and Chrome Web browser, the most direct, erstwhile Microsoft killer may have appeared late last night from Google in the form of Chrome OS. By now you’ve read the reports, which you can pick through […]

Google July 7 formally unveiled its entry into the computer operating system software market with the Google Chrome Operating System, a lightweight OS that will run on top of a Linux kernel to power Web applications. The move, announced casually by Google the evening of July 7 in a blog post by Sundar Pichai, vice […]

Google’s Gmail team removed the right-side labels feature in the Webmail application last week. The removal spurred some fiery protest: Check out the comments at the end of my Google Watch post on the matter. Users are miffed that Google turned off right-side labels, moving up the left-side labels to help promote the woefully underused […]