Clint Boulton

In a move that has search experts giddy over the preservation of objectivity, Google said it will sell the Performics search marketing business it secured when it bought DoubleClick. The company is also laying off 300 people, or one-quarter of the 1,200 DoubleClick staffers based in the United States, a source familiar with the company’s […]

The new voice search and search assistance features in its new OneSearch mobile service indicate that Yahoo will continue to enhance its Web services despite the looming presence of rival Microsoft, which offered to buy the company Feb. 1. The new features are also the latest steps on a mobile Web ladder race the embattled […]

The recent subpoena of TXTmob programmer Tad Hirsch by the New York City Law Department illustrates the risks text-messaging services face from legal discovery. The New York City Law Department subpoenaed Hirsch, who wrote the code for the TXTmob text messaging service, ordering him to cough up records of the content of the messages exchanged […]

Be careful of how and what you tweet on Twitter. It may come back to haunt you in a court of law. In the wake of the arrest of hundreds of people in July 2004 during the Republican National Convention assembly in New York, the city’s attorneys are prying for access to text messages used […]

The merry pranksters are out in earnest for April 1, with some of the more silly jokes whipped up by or on behalf of Google, poking at the search vendor’s Big Brother aura. In the United States, Google crafted a press release and blog post detailing Virgle, a fictitious joint venture between Google and intrepid […]

Yahoo opened a lot of eyes with Inbox 2.0, a socialized version of Yahoo Mail that integrates multiple social networks into the Web mail application used by more than 250 million people. San Francisco’s Xoopit is looking to take the social inbox schema up a notch with a new personal media browser application that lets […]

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, […]