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How Google Comes Out Cleaner Than Apple on Privacy
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-16
Path's privacy snafu of collecting address book data and storing it on remote servers without permission opened the floodgates of media hellhounds on that startup, along with Twitter, Foursquare, Yelp and others. This comes a week after Google spent a couple weeks being demonized for its planned
Google PageRank Used in Molecular Chemistry Research
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-15
Google is well known for its collegiate roots, hatched as it was by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University back in the late 1990s. So it's only fitting that PageRank, the defining algorithm that set Google apart from Overture, Yahoo, Microsoft and many others to
Google Voice Search vs. Siri in Battle for Speech-Driven Ads
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-14
Anyone who reads this blog knows I'm a pretty faithful follower of John Battelle's own Search Blog.
Battelle sparked an interesting conversation about the mobile ad
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Does Gmail's Perpetual Window Play Fast, Loose With Data?
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-13
This fine piece in Wired about a "perpetual window into Gmail" caught my attention this weekend for two reasons.
First, I live in Gmail. It's my primary, personal email haven. Second, considering the data-sucking sounds Path made this month, the idea that Google has left open some potentially serious
Google Prepping Storage Drive, Home Entertainment System
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-10
Unlike my blogger peers, I'm not usually wont to skewer a so-called scoop. And I won't start doing so, but I will point out that two intriguing pieces in the The Wall Street Journal came off as old news, warmed over instead of hot stuff. First is this
HP Touch to Share NFC App Joins Google Wallet, Android Beam
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-09
Near field communications, also known as good-ole NFC, was one of a handful of rages in 2011.
You couldn't read a story about mobile payment systems without seeing NFC as one of the keywords, which is ironic because NFC-based mobile payment systems haven't exactly taken off. I'm looking at
Google's Existential Threat Mirrors Microsoft's Tidal Wave Warning
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-08
John Battelle has been on a roll of late, opining on a number of Internet topics I hold near and dear, particularly the competitive dynamic of the Big 5 of the Internet.
Those would be Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook, and all of their walled gardens, another Battelle
Google Glasses Leverage Cloud for Augmented Reality
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-07
Could Google Glasses one day join Google Goggles in the pantheon of the company's popular products? Perhaps. But, please, enough p-words. 9to5 Google said Google is building
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Google Wallet Works on Galaxy Phones With AT&T SIM Card
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-06
One of the big knocks on Google Wallet, the company's smartphone-based mobile-payment service, is that it's only been available on one phone to date--the Samsung Nexus S from Sprint. That is no longer true. The Wallet app may be installed and used on Samsung Galaxy S
Meet Android Market's Malware Bouncer
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-03
One of the leading knocks on Google's freewheeling, open approach to the Android Market is that it's leaves the application store more susceptible to malware and lots of spammy apps. Indeed, Symantec, Lookout Mobile and other security firms have reported a significant rise in Android Market malware in
Google Docs for Android Gets Offline File Access
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-02
Google continues to leverage its good work in HTML5 to enable its productivity and collaboration applications to work offline. The company is now letting users make any Google Docs
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Much Ado About Google's Privacy Policy Changes
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-01
Google is getting a lot of flak about its new privacy policies, some of it warranted and some of it not. The fact is that Google has been heading along this path for years. One could argue the first indication was the Dashboard Google set up in 2009
Lots of Google Apps Seats Live in Large Businesses
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-31
There is a long-held belief that the majority of Google App customers are small mom-and-pop shops, ranging between two and 10 employees.
Technically, that is true of the 4 million-plus businesses using Google Apps. However, there are more companies of scale using Apps than you might think, according to
Google Search Head Preaches Patience for Personal Search
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-30
Danny Sullivan, the Search Engine Land head who has been dogged in his criticism of Google's Search plus your world feature, scored a nice interview with the company's search head, Amit Singhal. If you've been following the SPYW coverage, you should read it because it reveals much about
Google Music Allows Downloads, YouTube Videos
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-27
Google is providing two new perks for Google Music users, including the ability to shuttle their tracks from the music locker and share YouTube videos. Users have been able to upload up to 20,000 songs to the Google Music locker and play them on their Android smartphone or
