Clint Boulton

Google has introduced mapping software that uses the companys search algorithms to sift through information broadcast from cell towers and approximate a users location on a map through a mobile phone. Launched Nov. 28, Google Maps for Mobile software includes a beta version of Googles My Location technology, which lets a user type the number […]

Verizon Wireless, a phone carrier that doubled as the scourge of Google as recently as two months ago, loosened up in a major way today by proclaiming that customers will have the option of connecting hardware and software not sold by the company to its network. Verizon Wireless next year will publish technical standards for […]

Sometimes being the first mover in an emerging market is not always the best thing. InsideView on Nov. 27 agreed to purchase TrueAdvantage in a merger of rivals in the on-demand sales intelligence software sector. An offshoot of business intelligence software, sales intelligence applications use aggregation and analytics technologies to help sales and marketing executives […]

Rumors of a virtual hard drive from Google may not have been exaggerated after all. In an effort to move more user data into the Internet “cloud,” Google is close to releasing a storage service that would let users move their digital data onto Googles servers, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal […]

Almost 10 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee began describing the Semantic Web as a Web that can describe things in a way that computers can understand, enabling the machines to make stronger connections, and ultimately letting people share documents and other types of information in different ways. What he described then was not much different from […]

Count Live Documents among the new challengers to Microsoft Office and Google Apps. Live Documents merges the mature functionality of Microsoft Office word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software with the collaborative tools of Google Apps into a platform that allows users to access their documents on either the desktop or the browser, according to officials […]

A week wouldn’t be complete in high tech without rumors that Google is going to buy some company or another as part of its quest for Internet data and service domination. So, have you heard the one about Google buying Skype? Skype, owned by eBay, is essentially the Google of free PC-to-PC calling services. The […]

Web developers can now download Firefox 3 Beta 1 to test more than 30 new features in the popular open-source browser released from Mozilla Nov. 19. With Internet browsers, security, ease of use and performance typically top users wish lists. To wit, Firefox 3 employs a button in the location bar that lets users see […]

Were either Google or Yahoo to roll its vast network of Web mail users into a social network, allowing users to display personal profiles and connect with others, either could challenge Facebook and MySpace nearly overnight. Either or both would instantly have a user base more significant than the social networking giants have, and would […]

Index Engines, which helps business users index and retrieve e-mail and files, is adding automated tape sorting and object extraction utilities to its Tape Engine eDiscovery Edition appliance. The new software, launched Nov. 20, indexes unstructured data on offline tapes without ever restoring it. This practice quashes the process of restoring tapes to find files, […]