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Google Latitude Goes Real-time on Google Maps for Android 4.6
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-29
Google capped a week of big location search and ad news with a new version of Google Maps for Android that is absolutely tuned for location-based services.
Google Maps 4.6 features an option to update the Google Latitude friend-finding tool in real-time and a new design for Place page
Google, Apple Profiled on Bloomberg Game Changers
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-28
Bloomberg Television this month began running a nice little series called Bloomberg Game Changers profiling some of the most influential captains of industry, including Apple CEO
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Google Voice Search Leveraged for Local Listings on iPhone
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-27
Anyone wonder what people who conduct voice searches are looking for? Chitika says its local search listings. The ad network said that people who search with their voice on the iPhone are three times more likely to be looking for local results. Chitika, which noted earlier this
Google AdMob Launches Interactive Video Ads for Android
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-26
Google's display and mobile ad businesses may be chugging along at a combined $3.5 billion run-rate for the year, but competition from Apple's iAd and other ad platforms mean the search engine can't curb its enthusiasm for the hunt. The company's AdMob mobile display ad unit, which it
Facebook-like Social Games to Rule Google TV, Apple TV: Cuban
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-25
When it comes to TV consumption, I respect Mark Cuban's opinion quite a bit, so I paid close attention to two of his recent blog posts regarding Google TV and Apple TV. On Oct. 22, Cuban wrote "How Google TV Could Hand Netflix the entire streaming universe," a
Google Creep Exemplified in Stats: Royal Pingdom
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-22
Royal Pingdom offered a fun post Oct. 19 dealing with one of my favorite topics: Google Creep. Google Creep is my nickname for the spread of Google's sphere of influence across the Web, starting with search, moving into Web applications and content such as YouTube, easing into the
Facebook Developer: Android Only Open Is as Open Does
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-21
File this under: Kettle, meet Pot. Renowned Mozilla Firefox browser/Facebook for iPhone developer (turned Facebook for Android developer?) Joe Hewitt joined Apple CEO Steve Jobs
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Google Search Getting More Social with Shared By Links
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-20
Google has recently started running a new search engine experiment that provides "shared by" and "recent updates" links to Twitter tweets and Facebook and MySpace status updates for some popular queries. Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan saw the shared by feature when he searched for "Tom Bosley," the
Google Adding Location Tab to Search Results Pages
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-19
Less than two weeks after we learn that Marissa Mayer has been moved over to run Google's geo/local efforts, the search engine she helped launch to global prominence is adding a location tab to the left-hand panel of its search results page on Google.com. To this point, when
Google Street View Sets Stage for Matrix-like Online Gaming
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-18
Google could use its Street View imagery as the backdrop for the company's online gaming strategy if it chose to pursue this avenue. That's the premise of this fun blog post by Phillip Winston, a computer graphics software programmer for a large neuroscience research lab.
Noting that the
Android 2.1, 2.2 Creep to Nearly 75% of Google Handsets
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-15
As Google scrambles to get Android 3.0 out the door, the company's most-recent iterations of the open-source operating system have combined to comprise 73.8 percent, or almost
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Mark Zuckerberg Believes Google Has No Incentive to Innovate
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-14
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes some flak for being nervous when he speaks, but he was quite clear about what he thinks of Google Oct. 13 when he helped Microsoft's Bing team introduce social search integration between Bing and Facebook. Zuckerberg's words, viewed in context, shouldn't be taken
Mayer's Move to Head Google's Local Efforts is a Wise One
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-13
By now most people who care enough have weighed in about the promotion of Marissa Mayer, Google's longtime vice president of search and user experience, who was moved to run Google's geo/local business unit.
Google told me Oct. 12: "Marissa is moving over to an exciting new role
Windows Phone 7 Will Challenge Android in 2011
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-12
Windows Phone 7 is out, or at least the mobile-watching world has seen the devices and is largely impressed by them, if not overwhelmed with excitement.
Good for Microsoft, bad for Google. Many bloggers are already opining about how Windows Phone 7 will shred Android in the market.
Google TV Search Powers Google TV
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-11
One of the interesting tidbits of news teased from Google out of Logitech's Oct. 6 launch of the Revue companion box and controller for Google TV was that Google has created a specialized flavor of search technology for the service, which weds channel surfing and Web surfing. Are
