Clint Boulton

Now that Google has released its Android mobile operating system stack, the fun part is developing applications to run on it. A Google software programmer has created Apps-for-Android, an open-source project released under the Apache 2.0 license to share sample applications for the Android platform. Apps-for-Android launched March 4 with a collaboration application, WikiNotes for […]

In December, eWEEK polled customers and analysts about what features they wanted to see in Google Apps, the search vendor’s popular collaboration software suite. One of those features included the ability for Google Calendar to work with other calendaring applications in the market. Google March 5 answered the bell, releasing Google Calendar Synch, which synchronizes […]

Google scored a goal for team data portability March 5, unveiling a Google Contacts Data API to let programmers provide access to users’ contact lists shared among Google applications such as Gmail, Reader and Calendar. The Google Contacts Data API allows programmers to request a list of a user’s contacts, edit or delete content in […]

Ask.com is retooling its business strategy to be a destination that helps users find reference information, such as online dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias and area codes, as well as answers to health and entertainment questions. Responding to reports that portrayed the company’s goal as a move to become a search engine for women, Ask.com spokesman Nicholas […]

Yahoo is extending a deadline for nominating candidates to its board, a move that analysts see as a stall tactic as Yahoo negotiates to make a deal with another company, or a bluff to get Microsoft to sweeten its bid to buy the company for $31 per share. Yahoo said in a statement March 5 […]

Facebook has taken a lot of flak for its approach to socially driven ads, but the situation could improve significantly in 2008. The social network has poached Sheryl Sandberg, Google’s vice president of global online sales and operations, to run its sales, marketing, business development, HR, public policy, privacy and communications. No pressure there, but […]

Social media software maker Demand Media acquired, March 4, Pluck Corporation, a white-label social network that lets media companies offer blogs syndicating RSS feeds, forums and photos, and video tools that they can brand as their own. Demand Media, of Santa Monica, Calif., offers customers a platform stacked with social media applications, such as social […]

During a keynote at Graphing Social Patterns West 2008, David Glazer, the Google engineering director responsible for OpenSocial, pumped up Nicholas Carr’s “The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google,” recommending it for people who don’t know a lot about cloud computing.But because a lot of people already know about the cloud he […]

Since OpenSocial launched on Nov. 1, the set of APIs for enabling users to move data between social networks has moved fairly quietly into the social site ether, gathering partners and adopters. But don’t call it a Google-owned framework, or you’re liable to tick off David Glazer, director of engineering for Google and the lead […]

Google on March 3 introduced Google Gears for mobile devices to allow users to work with certain mobile applications offline. Initially available for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5 and 6, the software could be valuable for mobile professionals who need to access their e-mail, word processing and spreadsheet applications from their mobile […]