Clint Boulton

Gordano, a scrappy challenger to Microsoft in on-premise messaging and collaboration software, has spruced up its messaging suite by extending its Gizmos mashup capability to let users embed widgets within windows. The Gordano Messaging Suite, a bundle of e-mail, Web mail, calendaring, instant messaging, anti-virus and anti-spam applications, has for months employed the company’s new […]

What would the year in mobile handsets, especially smartphones, have been like if the economy hadn’t taken a plunge in September? That’s one of the questions that comes to mind on seeing metrics from ABI Research released Jan. 29.Calling 2008 a “year of two halves,” ABI researchers said mobile handset shipments grew 14 percent year […]

I appreciate good rumors and conspiracy theories as much as the next journalist but some of them are head scratchers. Privacy rights group Consumer Watchdog believes that Google is supporting a lobbying effort that OKs the sale of electronic medical records so that it can sell these to advertisers on its new Google Health service. […]

Gmail Labs has really paid dividends since launching last June. The SMS text chat in Gmail is great and the ability to turn Gmails into Google Docs is nice but Gmail Labs should hit a home run with its new offline access for Gmail, which allows users to access their Gmail without a Web connection. […]

Google opened a new front in the network neutrality war between content providers and ISPs Jan. 28 by offering measurement tools to help computer users determine why their Web applications are balky.The search company created Measurement Lab, an open platform upon which researchers can deploy Internet measurement tools, in conjunction with the New America Foundation’s […]

It was mysterious and kind of cool a few years ago. When bloggers started reporting about the Google Gdrive, an online storage service that would house all of its users’ data, it sparked discussion about a number of possibilities. What if Google began offering its millions of users of search, Google Apps and other Web […]

When a Web hosting network reputedly responsibly for three-quarters of the world’s spam, McColo, was taken down in November, many people assumed the bust would take a big bite out of the amount of spam circulating.Indeed, spam plummeted 70 percent overnight, but now spam is bouncing back faster than you can hit delete on that […]

Google Jan. 27 reached a milestone in its competition against Microsoft with the introduction of offline access for Gmail, a long-awaited feature the company is rolling out to consumers and Google Apps users in the United States and United Kingdom.In Web application parlance, offline access is when users can access application data even when they’re […]

With products like Microsoft Live Workspace and Huddle and the myriad startups offering similar applications, one might think that the world doesn’t need another online workspace.That isn’t stopping Symantec, which Jan. 26 rolled out a free beta of its GoEverywhere secure SAAS (software as a service) workspace that lets users access their Web applications from […]

Update: Corrects publication title. Another writer has stumbled upon the notion that Google has the potential for monopoly power, citing the search giant’s Oct. 28 agreement with book authors, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers to pay $125 million to organize the world’s books online. That agreement was for Google’s Book Search […]

With the economy in a recession, enterprise applications makers are facing increased pressure to provide customers with products that help them conduct business with greater efficiency and even insight.That’s why Oracle has refreshed its applications for helping sales teams boost their ability to close deals. Hoping to trump rival Salesforce.com in SAAS (software as a […]

With financial analysts, online ad-focused press and pundits bowing to Google’s fourth quarter success, a jaw-dropping feat considering the recession and woes of rivals Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL, Google CEO Eric Schmidt discussed not only what got Google there, but what will help Google grow in the future. Schmidt said that Google’s core focus is […]