Clint Boulton

There’s nothing a like a good old fashioned media cat-and-mouse game. I’m talking about the kind where a public relations executive tries to convince a reporter of something that stretches the limit of our imagination. The reporter reports the story, but adds nuances to let us know that he is letting his subject spread a […]

Web video consumption is a red-hot market, but only a handful of venues provide the hosting platform for content producers to share their content. Google June 28 paved the way for professional news organizations to share their video content online so that they can build a bigger audience for their video content. Google News and […]

Google June 29 rolled out new mobile applications geared to let users in Uganda, Africa access health, news, weather and other information from mobile phones via Short Message Service. Google already offers SMS services for North America, and has even added SMS to its Gmail chat tool, though it is currently down. This new flavor […]

Colligo Networks, a software integrator that moves data storage and synchronization functions from the server to the desktop for IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft SharePoint customers, June 29 added two applications to its latest Contributor for SharePoint package. Contributor for SharePoint 4.0 now includes Colligo Contributor File Manager and the Colligo Contributor Uploader for Outlook. […]

There was a time in 2008 when you couldn’t go a week or two without reading on popular high-tech blogs that Twitter was down. TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington often complained about the loss of Twitter and frequently ripped the service for going down, exhorting the startup’s founders to improve the platform’s scalability. Fast forward to […]

Crashes on the Web are common, but you don’t often hear of crashes on Google’s Web search engine, which reportedly has the infrastructure muscle of some 1 million servers worldwide powering searches for 65 percent of the world’s Internet users. Yet that’s exactly what happened June 25 afternoon when news of Michael Jackson’s death seized […]

Google is again having trouble with its SMS text message tool, the experimental feature in the Gmail Chat menu that lets users send text messages from their computers to their contacts’ mobile phones. A Google spokesperson told me the Gmail team took the Gmail Labs feature down Wednesday between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. PDT. […]

Microsoft’s new Bing search engine beat Google in design and search results, but Google has fostered enough comfort and loyalty to retain users, according to a small study conducted by Web design firm Catalyst Group. See the study slides here. Eight out of 12 subjects who were regular Google users and had never used Bing […]

A Japanese programmer has created Footprints, a gadget for Google’s Friend Connect service that aims to clue Website owners in to who’s visiting their site and when. Based on the Google-backed OpenSocial APIs, Friend Connect is an application that lets Website owners add social features, such as a profile button, to their sites by copying […]

Predicting the Next Breakthrough Product for Google Google Apps This is the obvious place to start. Google had high hopes for the Google Apps suite when it launched it 2006. The collaboration suite boasts millions of users, including some larger businesses such as Serena Software and Capgemini. This is hardly enough to unseat Microsofts hundreds […]

I had a chat with Google Apps Senior Product Manager Rajen Sheth this week about cloud computing, interoperability with Microsoft and enterprise applications. If you haven’t already, you can read the full Q&A with Sheth here on eWEEK. I’m not going to delve into how whether or not Google is going to start doing enterprise […]

Google is opening up its Google Voice VOIP management service to more invitees June 25. Users who requested an invitation on the Google Voice site or previously on GrandCentral can expect invitations via e-mail, according to this post from Google Voice product managers Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet: “Once you receive your invitation, just click […]