Clint Boulton

Opera Challenges Client-Server Model with Unite Web Service Platform Opera Unite Setup Users must select a computer user name so their machines are distinguished from others on the Unite Web service platform. Unite Home Page Unite offers options for Web serving, file-sharing, photo-sharing and more. Consumer-centric applications are the key in the early going for […]

In its continuing effort to make searching the Web from mobile gadgets easier via voice instead of typing, Google June 15 said it has added voice search for Google Maps on Google Android-powered phones. Instead of typing, users can search Google Maps for Android by speaking their destination queries, including home addresses, businesses and other […]

UPDATED: I want to take this opportunity to comment on IBM’s big cloud push, which the company unfurled in an exclusive June 15 to the New York Times’ Steve Lohr. (Mea culpa. An IBM spokesperson explained to me that Lohr in fact broke an embargo. This was not an exclusive.) GigaOm’s Om Malik summarizes the […]

So I’ve been using Microsoft’s overhauled search engine Bing for a couple weeks now, and this is what I conclude: Bing is great. Results leave me concluding Bing is every bit as good as Google right now, better in some results, and more eye catching. However, as I detail later in this post, I’m not […]

Looking to make money in cloud computing collaboration software versus the likes of Google, Cisco and Microsoft, Adobe Systems June 15 moved Acrobat.com out of public beta with two premium paid subscription services for businesses. Acrobat.com is a suite of team collaboration tools that includes: the Buzzword word processing application; My Files for file storage; […]

Hunch, the widely anticipated new crowdsourcing project from Yahoo Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, launched to the general public June 15 in the form of a decision engine to help users, well, make decisions.Hunch, which will inevitably be helped by Microsoft’s plan to throw $80 million in marketing dollars toward Bing, its erstwhile Google-killing decision engine, […]

By now you’ve read the accounts from a couple weeks ago about Google Wave, the experimental, open-source collaboration and communications tool that bundles e-mail, instant messaging, photo sharing and other tools in one application. Google Wave hijacked the Microsoft Bing announcement when Google announced it at Google I/O May 28. Lars Rasmussen, the Software Engineering […]

I’ve come full circle. Due to circumstances in my personal life, I took a 4.5 month break from covering technology. I didn’t want to stop writing, the first time in 10 years of covering technology. Amazingly, I return this Monday to helm Google Watch and write for eWEEK.com. I didn’t expect to slide so easily […]

Box.net Feb. 4 has added profile pages, discussion groups, bookmarks and other social computing features to improve the team collaboration features of its Box online file management and storage service. Box won’t be confused for robust applications such as IBM Lotus Connections, IBM Lotus Quickr or Microsoft SharePoint. But for small and midsize businesses for […]

Remember back in October when Google waved the flag for OpenID, the federated log-in standard that lets users log into Web sites with the same user name and password? More importantly, the company was accused of perverting OpenID by creating its own flavor of it. Yesterday Google and Plaxo detailed the next step in their […]

Some of you have seen my Twitter tweet and some of you have seen a post on PR sites (thanks to all the PR people, whose pings about my future are heart warming), so this isn’t a big shock. For everyone else… This is my last post on Google Watch. I’m taking an undetermined time […]

It’s impossible for eBay to report quarterly earnings without the usual deliberations about what the company could, would or should do with Skype. So it comes as no surprise that media hounded eBay CEO John Donahoe about the VOIP unit, one of those anomalous acquisitions that people still scratch their heads about. For $2.6 billion, […]