Clint Boulton

Last year, I wrote a piece for eWEEK about a so-called MySpace for spies. “A-Space” (A is for analyst) is a social network for U.S. spies and covert operatives across 16 intelligence agencies to share information with each other. The effort is spearheaded by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or DNI, a […]

The Great Microsoft-Google Social Web Battle By Clint Boulton The Great Microsoft-Google Social Web Battle – Social Web Is Defined Developers get behind the OpenSocial Foundation and build applications that prove incredibly viral among Yahoo’s 500 million-plus users. OpenSocial becomes the most powerful social Web platform to date, fueled by applications for work and play. […]

Google is set to answer a frequently ringing bell by making its Google Docs word processing application available offline, the company said March 31. Over the next few weeks, the company will let users edit word processing documents in the Google Docs SAAS (software as a service) application without a Web connection. Users will be […]

Zoho continues to build out its suite of business applications to offer low-cost alternatives to software as a service options from Salesforce.com, Oracle and NetSuite. The Pleasanton, Calif., division of AdventNet introduced Zoho Invoice, an invoice-generation and tracking application that lets financial personnel create, send and track invoices and estimates. Financial specialists first add customers, […]

Ever wonder who is looking at your YouTube videos? Now you can. Well, not exactly who is looking at them, but an idea of where your videos are most popular. Google’s video-sharing site yesterday launched YouTube Insight, a free tool that enables users, partners and advertisers that have a YouTube account to peep statistics about […]

The latest paid click report from comScore has financial analysts in a tizzy and eying the leading search and online advertising player with suspicion and not a light undercurrent of dread. Google’s paid click rate grew 3.1 percent year-to-year in February, according to the report, cited by Reuters. This follows comScore’s January report, which found […]

If Cemaphore Systems can successfully market a new product that lets users access their Outlook e-mail from Google’s servers, the company could significantly boost its value to suitors interested in furthering their cloud computing ambitions. MailShadow for Google, or MailShadowG, officially launched in beta on March 26. The product is targeted for businesses that want […]

Remember last year when Sprint and Clearwire embarked on a venture that would have defined the WiMax market for decades? That star burned out quickly, with Sprint shedding CEO Gary Forsee and putting the kibosh on the deal. Cable giants Comcast and Time Warner Cable want to fund a new company operated by Sprint Nextel […]

Bloggers were torn about whether Google’s search-within-search box was harming publishers and retailers, as was suggested in this March 24 New York Times piece. A search expert believes the tool, a secondary search box that lets consumers conduct searches within specific sites without navigating to those sites, will help Google “hijack” revenue from Web site […]

The beauty of cloud-based computing is that it can enable companies to break down the barriers between disparate and even competing applications. That’s why Cemaphore Systems is leveraging the popular SAAS (software as a service) model to synchronize users’ e-mail, calendars and contacts between Microsoft Outlook and Exchange and Gmail. Launched March 26, MailShadow for […]

So, here is what we know from today’s OpenSocial news: Yahoo has joined OpenSocial and forged the OpenSocial Foundation with Google and MySpace. Facebook is not joining, and Microsoft is on the fence, but I’ll circle back to that. Following are some questions left unanswered in the wake of today’s conference call: How exactly will […]

Yahoo joined Google and MySpace in launching the OpenSocial Foundation, marking Yahoo’s support for the open set of APIs created to fuel interoperability between social applications. Launched March 25, the OpenSocial Foundation will be an independent, nonprofit group with an intellectual property and governance framework. Related assets along those lines will be assigned to the […]