Clint Boulton

One of the beautiful things about the Internet is that it frees us from the constraints of our physical existence. Want to rent a DVD and buy a new laptop? You used to have to drive to Blockbuster and then to Best Buy. More often than not, thanks to the mass consumerization in the U.S., […]

Veodia, which makes Web video software that lets business workers communicate with each other through a Web browser, June 19 said it has purchased screen capture specialist ScreenToaster. ScreenToaster’s Web software lets consumers capture their screen activity and share it as video with audio on blogs or Websites through Adobe Flash players. While originally geared […]

Google and Facebook have set the blogosphere afire with breathy promises of adding the Persian language, Farsi, to their list of translation services. Farsi speakers can “translate any text from Persian into English and from English into Persian — whether it’s a news story, a Website, a blog, an e-mail, a tweet or a Facebook […]

Not sure about you, but I’m trying to stave off the agita I’m getting around the latest Google-Twitter-Facebook clash for real-time search. Google Operating System’s Alex Chitu threw a wrench in the machine when he found Google’s code reference to a microblogging service. Chitu wrote: “Much like Google Blog Search, Google’s microblogging search service will […]

So I read with amusement the New York Post’s account that Google fears Bing. Sure, Bing is tearing it up in the early run, getting lots of searchers curious about the hullabaloo. People want to see how Microsoft is going to compete with Google in search. ComScore says Microsoft’s average daily penetration among U.S. searchers […]

What’s going on with Google? Well, according to comScore’s fresh May stats, the company has a whopping 65 percent search share worldwide. But comScore also said Bing is moving up the search engine charts, at least in the first three weeks of its life. So here comes the Wall Street Journal with another state of […]

Google June 18 improved its Google Books service to make the virtual book service more like the way users consume paper books. Yahoo meanwhile improved its SearchMonkey service with new enhanced results and added Google Base formatting for structured data feeds. The Google Books upgrade comes amid a formal inquiry into the book program by […]

Chris Messina, who blogs as FactoryJoe and is an advocate of open-source technologies such as Firefox and Flock, positively shredded Opera Unite in a blog post last night, June 16, that provoked more than 200 comments on his own blog, Facebook, FriendFeed, Reddit and other sites. See the TechMeme avalanche here. I spent a fair […]

Underscoring the trickiness of getting Web-based and desktop applications to work together, Microsoft said June 16 that Google’s Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook synchronization tool disables Microsoft’s Windows Desktop Search feature for searching in Outlook. Google June 9 released Google Apps Synch for Microsoft Outlook with a mind to reach out to the millions of […]

Facebook, chided by spoiled Twitter fans for its inability to let users search content in real time, said June 16 it is testing the latest version of Facebook Search for a fraction of a percent of the people on Facebook. The lucky batch of people will see new layouts for search results on people’s profiles, […]

Google is really getting hammered for its Google Book Search project, essentially a monumental effort to organize the world’s books online and make money from them. Amazon.com head honcho Jeff Bezos was the latest to weigh in. Speaking at the Wired Business Conference in New York on June 15, Bezos, who built his e-commerce empire […]

Challenging Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft in the nascent Web services arena, Opera June 16 unveiled Opera Unite, a Web service platform which computers create Web sites, chat and share files without letting user data grace third-party servers during the data exchange. Computers typically operate under the client-server model, using Web and physical servers as the […]