Clint Boulton

As businesses all over the world slide deeper into the yawning chasm of recession, CEOs and CFOs must strike a delicate balance between the cost and benefit of travel. Does meeting face to face outweigh the thousands of dollars spent for the business trip? In a recession, the answer is often no, even for companies […]

Apple’s iPhone, whose viability as a business-class smart phone is regularly questioned by experts, is expected to reach 10 percent of small and midsize businesses in 2009, according to a new report from Forrester Research.While devices based on the BlackBerry and Windows mobile operating systems will continue to reign in the United States, Apple’s iPhone […]

Zoho Dec. 16 said applications created with its Zoho Creator Web database application tool will now run on Google App Engine, the latest bridge between software-as-a-service providers forging interoperability between their cloud computing platforms.Zoho Creator lets even casual users who are not necessarily programmers use drag-and-drop tools to create ad-hoc Web applications and add them […]

Yesterday, I noted in the wake of the Google-network neutrality fiasco that Google is a marked company by journalists and bloggers who, whether they will care to admit it in print or not, feel the company has gotten too big for its britches. They will stop at almost nothing to paint the company as the […]

Startups in the social collaboration software market are facing the combination of a maturing market ripe for consolidation and a bear market, where larger enterprise vendors may look to bargain-shop and cherry-pick the best-of-breed providers.Gartner analyst Matt Cain said in a new report that providers of blog, RSS, wiki and other newfangled collaboration technologies may […]

There’s a bloody brouhaha brewing in Washington, D.C., between Google and the Wall Street Journal. The stalwart of journalism reported late yesterday that Google was canning its network neutrality support and looking to place its own servers in network service providers’ data centers to speed its Web services to consumers. The story also suggests Google […]

Yahoo began delivering on its promise of creating a smarter in-box experience for its 275 million Yahoo Mail users, turning on a service Dec. 15 that will let the Web mail application integrate with social networks and other Web services. The new Yahoo Mail, which former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang promised at the Consumer Electronics […]

With just a little over two weeks to go until the New Year, technology strategists and pundits are revving their prognostication engines to predict what 2009 will usher in.But unlike the last handful of years or so, the economic environment is dreadful, with thousands of high-tech layoffs by parched startups seeking exit strategies after coming […]

Google continued to augment its Gmail application Friday by adding the ability to view Adobe PDF files in the Web mail application. Now you’ll see a new View link next to PDF attachments you receive in Gmail. Click this link and the PDF opens inside the browser. Sound familiar? It should if you’re a Google […]

The emergence of Chrome from beta yesterday fueled a number of good stories and I’d like to highlight a few for your reading pleasure heading into the weekend. If you think Google hasn’t learned a thing or two about the security foibles of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, think again. eWEEK’s Brian Prince drilled down into the […]

Loopt’s popular social mapping service is now available free through Google’s Android Market mobile application store, helping users of the Android-based T-Mobile G1 smartphone find their friends.Android is the mobile operating system Google designed to give consumers superior mobile Internet browsing experiences over smartphones. Core to this goal is providing access to popular services such […]

Top Web Products, Services of 2008 by eWEEK Ribbit Launched formally at Demo in January, Ribbit lets developers add voice and automation features to most Web-based apps or social networks. BT was so enamored with this VOIP platform, which let users add the communications element to business apps carriers have been lacking, that it would […]