Clint Boulton

Google took the application development world by storm Sept. 2 with Chrome, a beta of the company’s new open source Web browser. But it’s more than just a gateway to Google’s search and other Web applications.If Chrome, with its fresh takes on stability, speed, security, privacy and ease of use, proves superior to other Web […]

In February 2007, Google turned heads when it launched GAPE (Google Apps Premier Edition), a paid version of its Apps suite for enterprises that includes extra security, 24/7 phone support, 99.999 percent availability (which was severely tested last month with a few outages) and other perks such as API access.Since that time, Google has frustrated […]

UPDATE: One week after Microsoft captured headlines by posing Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8 as a weapon to keep Google’s search ad dominion at bay, Google is fighting back … with a comic book.It’s not just any comic book; it’s a super-creative introduction to Google Chrome, the company’s long-rumored take on an open-source Web […]

I’ve now read one dozen reports about Microsoft buying Greenfield Online, which owns a Web research business based in my home state of Connecticut as well as European comparison shopping site Ciao.My favorite analysis was published Friday by my colleague Joe Wilcox for Microsoft Watch because he correctly outlines how Microsoft made the $486 million […]

Few deals currently give open-source advocates unrest like Google’s deal with Mozilla, which Mozilla Chairperson Mitchell Baker said in a blog post has been renewed for three years, through November 2011.In the deal, Google pays Mozilla a lot of cash to be the default search engine on Firefox, which commands about 15 percent of the […]

Google’s Android team today unveiled Android Market, a content distribution system through which users can purchase applications for smart phones based on the Android mobile operating system.Eric Chu, a programmer for the Android Mobile Platform, wrote in a blog post that Android Market will let programmers make their apps and other content available on a […]

Google’s Apps team has taken customer complaints to heart and is extending full service-level agreement credit to paying customers whose Google Docs, Sites and other Apps services were disrupted by a a few outages earlier this month.Google said in an e-mail that it is giving SLA credit to all GAPE (Google Apps Premier Edition) customers […]

It’s no secret that Google has been working on a Digg-like feature that lets users vote searches higher or lower, make comments, and alter the search results. Screenshots of the feature at work have been popping up in the wild for a year now. Search Engine Land’s Barry Schwartz noted it in 2007. Google confirmed […]

Talk about capitalizing (making money) on something (copyrighted content) that sticks in peoples’ craws.Google’s YouTube video-sharing site is getting an unexpected boost from a content protection tool it launched in October 2007 to help companies weed out copyrighted content.Rather than using the software to block video users put up, 90 percent of copyrighted content owners […]

Enterprise VOIP specialist BroadSoft Aug. 27 acquired the M6 Communication Applications Server and the product’s associated customer base from IP gateway supplier Genband. Financial terms of the deal were not revealed, but BroadSoft said the purchase will help bring its BroadWorks voice over IP applications, which include hosted telephony and multimedia services, to more telecommunications […]