Clint Boulton

You Are Google’s Guinea Pig, So Get Used to It, Stupid Google People-Watches Russell says Google “spends many hours in the field, watching people search and listening to what they say as they do this.” Such comments bring to mind the phrase, “Big Brother.” Google Is Making Us Stupid Nicholas Carr may have been right […]

When I met with Google’s mobile platform and open source evangelist Vic Gundotra 11 months ago, he mused about how great it would be to speak into his iPhone and get Google search results. Google programmers have made that possible, adding voice recognition technology to the company’s search algorithm to make the iPhone even more […]

When you ask programmers who left Microsoft for Google, they will often say Microsoft lacks native Web speakers. Google would have you think that it symbolizes cloud computing par excellence, while Microsoft is plodding. To challenge the prevailing sentiment, Microsoft recently announced its Azure Services Platform cloud-based Windows strategy at PDC (Professional Developers Conference), but […]

Google Nov. 13 improved its hosted Google Site Search offering with On-Demand Indexing, technology that enables businesses to make sure their public Web sites have the freshest content for visitors to access.Google Site Search, an alternative to enterprise search products from specialists such as Microsoft’s Fast, Vivisimo or Endeca, provides public businesses with Google’s search […]

On-Demand Indexing for Google Site Search On-Demand Indexing for Google Site Searchby Clint Boulton Google Site Search Google Site Search lets businesses customize their search requirements to fit their Web site needs. On-Demand Indexing Interface A new feature in Google Site Search boosts the speed at which Web sites update. Adobe Dreamweaver Site Search Adobe […]

Serena Software expects to save $750,000 per year by shedding Microsoft Exchange Server in favor of Google’s Gmail application for its 800 employees, officials of the Web development software maker told eWEEK Nov. 12. The move, slated to be completed by the end of 2008, is a coup for Google. The search engine provider has […]

Most everywhere you turn, software makers are building widgets or gadgets, those lightweight applications popularized by Google that provide virtual services such as news, weather, time, calendar or map information.Oracle joined the gadget party Nov. 12 with Oracle CRM Gadgets for Sales, desktop gadgets that mash up data from a company’s CRM system with data […]

If you’re going to port an application to mobile enterprise workers, what better starting point than with RIM’s BlackBerry platform? Google this week said it has issued new installation packages for Google Maps for mobile in enterprises, which will let IT administrators push the popular Google mobile mapping software to employees through the BlackBerry Enterprise […]

Oracle’s CRM Gadgets for Sales Professionals Search Gadget This mini-application provides a desktop-based search tool for Siebel CRM data. My Contacts Gadget This tool lets users quickly search and approach contacts from a Siebel CRM or Oracle CRM On Demand application. Users can then click to e-mail or call these contacts. Top Accounts Gadget This […]

Many people, including yours truly right now, are writing about the new feature in Google Reader that automatically translates RSS feeds in multiple languages. So if I find something written in Japanese, I can do the following (see a picture here), according to Chrix Finne, a Google Reader product manager: “Next time you find an […]

Mindjet, a maker of visual mapping software to improve knowledge worker productivity, Nov. 11 launched the latest version of its MindManager platform, a SAAS version, and a “player” that lets users share their collaboration maps with others.Lest you think MindManager is yet another collaboration software platform in the vein of Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Lotus or […]

Hyperic, which sells software agents to correct performance, configuration and security issues in physical and virtual computing systems, is cozying up to the Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud service.Hyperic Nov. 11 said it will offer its HQ Enterprise 4.0 suite on Amazon EC2. Hyperic will offer an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) preconfigured for Amazon […]