Clint Boulton

You may have heard Google is planning to set up an 8,000-square-foot “Big Tent” for bloggers covering the Democratic convention in Denver Aug. 25 to 28. Attendees will be able to see demonstrations of Google Apps.We can’t accuse Google of partisan politics here; this effort will be roughly duplicated at the Republican convention in Minnesota […]

A story I published nearly three weeks ago about the use of Facebook, Twitter and other social applications in the workplace has taken on new life from readers who responded passionately for and against the issue.In the report, Gartner analysts Anthony Bradley and Nikos Drakos argued that social apps be allowed in enterprises with the […]

Given the rising popularity of software as a service in businesses this year, it’s important that cloud-computing providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google, Salesforce.com and others have a healthy ecosystem of supporters. Add Hyperic to the list. Hyperic, which bills itself as an open-source provider of Web infrastructure management, on Aug. 20 began supporting […]

Google makes some useful widgets that we can use for our iGoogle custom home pages.Today the search company may have scored a great coup in the battle of broken links, mistyped URLs, broken Web page links and deleted content with a custom widget that lets Web site owners help their visitors find what they are […]

Update: Looking to capitalize on the popularity of the U.S. political races, Google’s Reader team has created Google Power Readers in Politics, which includes links to favorite content from major political journos and the U.S. presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain.Google Reader’s Chrix Finne said in a blog post, “[We] can read what […]

Over a couple days starting with its launch July 28, Cuil gained unprecedented media attention for a startup, crashed when too many people tried to access its search engine and angered people by not putting the correct pictures with some search results. Three weeks later it is clear that the company, which aims to one-up […]

Google today appealed to the public for help in freeing up white spaces, the unused spectrum between channels 2 and 51 on analog TV sets that will be abandoned when we switch to digital TV next year, with a new petition initiative called Free The Airwaves.Free the Airwaves comes after the FCC completed its white […]

Is Facebook’s flash fading?In a sign that apparently the grass is not always greener on the other side, Ben Ling, Google Checkout guru turned Facebook Platform Product Marketing Man is reportedly rejoining Google after less than a year at the popular social network, wrote Kara Swisher on AllThingsDigital.Swisher said Ling is rejoining Google to work […]

Google’s Android team took significant technical and procedural steps Aug. 18 with the release of a beta version of the new Android 0.9 SDK and the introduction of a development road map for the Linux-based mobile operating system.The release comes the day Engadget, VentureBeat and other blogs found schematics for the first Android-based phone, the […]

If we are to believe reports from the blogosphere, T-Mobile USA is expected to be the first carrier to offer the first Google Android-based mobile phone, which has been approved by the Federal Communications Commission to be released Nov. 10 this year. The phone, called the Dream, will be made by HTC and could sell […]

Google may be susceptible to serious outages for its Gmail and other Google Apps, but the company is putting the smack down on e-mail viruses.Google, no stranger to tracking the comings and goings-on around our beloved Internet, said its Postini data centers in July tallied the biggest volume of e-mail virus attacks to date in […]

In response to the horrified rabble over how contacts are shared in its Google Reader application, Google has taken a step back from designating anyone who exchanges messages on Google Talk as friends and sharing that content with Reader users.The issue came to light last December when Google linked up Reader with its Google Talk […]