Clint Boulton

Even as Yahoo struggles to stay afloat with new services, its messaging and collaboration property Zimbra continues to chug along at its own fervent pace. Zimbra released Zimbra Hosted, its first ever SAAS (software as a service) suite, Oct. 28.The hosted version of Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is geared to let students at colleges and […]

It’s getting hard to keep up with Google’s Gmail engineers these days. Every week, the team seems to pump out two announcements worthy of blog posts. The latest, from Gmail Labs, lets users add Google Calendar and Docs gadgets, or small applications also known as widgets to the left-navigation bar next to Chat and Labels. […]

Update: Google today hurdled a significant stumbling block with regard to its multi-billion-dollar Book Search project, agreeing to pay $125 million to put millions of books online and compensate authors for publishing their content. Some $34 million-plus of the settlement will go to the creation of a Book Rights Registry, which I’ll detail later, while […]

Taking a page from its successful, prolific Gmail Labs group, Google Oct. 28 launched Labs for Google Apps, a set of experimental features for businesses and schools using Google Apps.Built on Google’s App Engine, the company’s hosted application development platform, the first Labs for Google Apps applications include Google Moderator, Google Code Reviews and Google […]

When Microsoft unveiled Azure, its long-awaited cloud computing strategy, at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles Oct. 27, the news largely unfazed show attendees.High-tech analyst Peter O’Kelly wrote in his Reality Check blog: “A lot of people in the audience, and many in the press/analyst room here, seemed to be looking for something more […]

Google’s enterprise team, which needs to work harder to garner attention in the mammoth shadow of the company’s search engine and advertising machines, continues to remind people that it’s alive and well. Nitin Mangtani, lead product manager for Google Enterprise Search, has written an editorial for Forbes.com. Sponsored by SAP, the piece, published Oct. 24, […]

The T-Mobile G1 smart phone has not even been on the market for one week, but a security expert has already found a significant flaw in the Google Android software that fuels it. The vulnerability, first reported in The New York Times, allows a hacker to hijack a Web browser on a G1 gadget. A […]

Google Earth Now on iPhone, iPod Touch No Title The Google Earth app for the iPhone and iPod Touch displays the same imagery and boasts the same navigational capabilities as the desktop client. No Title Look for pizza places in your general area. With the Search Near Me function, query results not only will be […]

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison makes no secret of the fact that he takes a dim view of software as a service and cloud computing. That doesn’t mean everyone shares his view.Gartner, which defines SAAS apps as software services users subscribe to over the Internet, the week of Oct. 20 published a report saying SAAS sales […]

It’s been quite the busy month for Google’s Gmail team. Mail Goggles left Google Labs to light up the blogosphere, saving people from e-mailing under the influence. Two days ago, Google Labs launched its Canned Responses feature for people tired of responding to the same old questions. Yesterday, the Gmail team launched a faster version […]

For four years, I’d been a happy user of Bloglines, an RSS feed service owned by Ask.com since 2005. Then a funny thing happened a month or so ago.Feeds to my Wall Street Journal subscription, the New York Times, Reuters and several other sites I troll daily to support my coverage became inaccessible.My complaint e-mail […]

What’s the most heavily used application on your mobile phone? Is it search? Maybe it’s YouTube or some cool game you can’t keep from playing. For some, it’s Gmail, for work and play. Google’s mobile team today took big steps to improve the speed and performance of Gmail on the RIM BlackBerry and any phone […]