Clint Boulton

Proving again my theory that vendors dabbling in a new frontier don’t want to miss a news cycle, MySpace has launched its own data portability effort a couple business days after the launches of Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect. Dave Winer and Om Malik call these feature wars. It’s interesting to me because MySpace […]

One of the knocks on Google Apps has been an utter lack of a tool to let users manage tasks or projects. Scratch the former complaint from your list. Google’s Gmail team moved to plug this hole with a new task manager that lets users keep track of their agenda. Check out this task management […]

Following closely on the heels of the SIM-unlocked Android phone, Google today said it is letting AdWords advertisers show desktop text and image ads on Apple’s iPhone, the T-Mobile G1 and other mobile devices with “full” Web browsers. Google defines “full Web browsers” as those that can show standard HTML Web pages and support a […]

Kudos to my former InternetNews colleague Andy Patrizio for ferreting out a fascinating new Google rumor we can tease each other with for weeks and months to come. This conspicuous specter? GOS, or the Google Operating System. Andy interviewed Net Applications about an anomaly the stat crunchers uncovered at Google, where as much as a […]

With video rapidly becoming the premier medium of information delivery on the Internet, Cisco Systems Dec. 8 today introduced the Cisco Media Experience Engine (MXE) 3000 appliance, which let users view content on PCs, high-definition TVs and mobile devices.Such capability, packed in a pizza-box like 1RU device, formats a single source of content so that […]

Salesforce.com and Google have created a bridge between their companies’ cloud computing application development platforms that will let programmers pull data from either platform and use it to create richer, more useful applications.The two companies plan to introduce Force.com for Google App Engine at a Cloudforce event in New York Dec. 8, Ariel Kelman, senior […]

Google’s Android team Dec. 5 quietly announced the Android Dev Phone 1, a SIM-unlocked and hardware-unlocked device on which programmers of the open-source mobile operating system can test and debug their applications. Programmers can use any SIM card in the device, so that users can use it on any network that will support it. Network […]

Industry experts treated Microsoft’s Dec. 4 hiring of Qi Lu as president of the company’s cursed Online Service Group, one of the company’s few glaring red zones, with cautious optimism.After all, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has run plenty of business and advertising guys, such as Kevin Johnson, through the Microsoft Online Service gauntlet with no […]

I love it when a Web service provider triggers redesigns and tells us they’re more attractive than what they were offering before. Rarely does anyone find that to be the case right off the bat; it generally takes us users a day or two to absorb layout changes. Yet here is Google, telling me that […]

On Dec. 1, I blogged like everyone else about the launch of Facebook Connect, which finally became official today, Dec. 4, after The New York Times got to chomp on the first bone last weekend. Connect is the opening of the walled garden for Facebook’s 120 million users, letting users sign in to other Web […]

IBM is looking to lure customers with a bundle of Linux, virtualization and its Lotus collaboration software as an alternative to Microsoft desktop software during the recession.IBM joined forces with Virtual Bridges and Canonical Dec. 4 to offer a virtual desktop package comprises three software components that sit on one corporate server. The bundle, billed […]

During a recession, it’s common for industry watchers to wonder what will happen to startups looking to get off the ground. MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe told Reuters companies are knocking on the leading social network’s door to get bought. Startups worth between $200 million and $300 million six months ago are now running out of […]