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How Many Android Gadgets Do We Wish?
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-26
The Verge founder Josh Topolsky both marveled at and lamented the sheer volume of smartphones, tablets and other consumer devices trotted out at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. Topolsky
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Google Keeps Mum on Don't Be Evil Bookmarklet
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-25
Ever since Facebook Product Director Blake Ross unveiled his Don't Be Evil bookmarklet, which uses Google's search indexes to show what Google Search, plus your world would look like if it included results from Facebook, Twitter and other sources, the tech world has been waiting for Google to respond.
Google Hotel Finder Now Refines Results by Travel Time
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-24
Google has upgraded the Hotel Finder travel search feature, adding an option to help users filter hotels by how close they want to be to a place when looking for a place to stay. Launched last July to help travelers narrow their options for hotel stays, Hotel Finder
Why Google Can't Reveal Google+ User Engagement Yet
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-23
Over at VentureBeat, Rocky Agrawal is outraged at Google for being "intellectually dishonest" regarding the user engagement the company is seeing in its Google+ social network. As I noted Saturday, Google CEO Larry Page counted 90 million Google+ accounts, but declined to say how frequently users were
Google Apps Fuels BBVA Email for 110,000 Employees
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-20
Google Apps, the cloud-based collaboration software for businesses, is set to turn 5 years old next month. Google celebrated early in landing BBVA as its largest Google Apps deployment to date, spanning 110,000 employees.
BBVA, which is short for Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., is the second
Google+ Gets Search Conversations, Video Updates
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-19
Google has really revved its Google+ engine in this second full week of the new year. One day after I discussed the new Google+ photo meme feature and auto-complete search for hashtags, the company has rolled out a handful of new tools to refine the user experience.
Google+ Adds Fun Photo Caption Feature, Auto-complete Hashtags
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-18
The Google+ team has added a fun new feature to photos -- the ability to add text within pictures. Take this picture I snagged at CES last week. Before sharing it on Google+, I click Add text: See here the options to add text above,
Google to Command CES 2013 With Android
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-17
I attended the high-tech tour de force known as the Consumer Electronics Show last week for two days in Las Vegas. It was my second year in a row covering the show. People have painted the show as increasingly irrelevant. Microsoft didn't help when it vowed
Murdoch Rips White House SOPA Stance, Google on Twitter
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-16
With anyone else, we call this outburst chutzpah, but this being media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and Murdoch almost always showing a propensity for saying Murdochian things, we'll
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Theory: Google Using Search to Sic Antitrust Busters on Facebook
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-13
There's little question now that Google has stepped into it big time with regard to Search, plus your world, the feature that personalizes search by incorporating Google+ posts and photos in users' search results.
Users who are signed in are officially sheep to Google's supposed well-meaning shepherd,
Google TV ARM in ARM With Marvell at CES
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-12
One of my last stops here at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show Jan. 11 was to check out what Marvell Semiconductor had done for Google TV. Few will disagree chipsets aren't as sexy as smart TVs, Blu-ray players or companion boxes, but Marvell aims to be the
Samsung Gaining Leverage Over Google?
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-11
Jean-Louis Gassée raised an interesting point about whether Samsung, which, if you believe the reports, is on pace to sell between 30 million and 35 million phones from October to December, holds some sway over Google, the steward of the Android handsets Samsung has ascended to stardom
Google, Apple Making Augmented Reality Cool Amid CES
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-10
Every year for CES (the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, for the uninitiated), I receive scores of pitches about glasses, wrist watches and other gadgets that aim to augment reality or at least pop it out in a lively way via 3D.
When I stop by these booths, I'm
Google, Apple Lead Internet Big Five
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-09
John Battelle offered this great chart above summarizing by strengths and weaknesses in the areas where Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon compete. He calls these the Internet Big Five. "For me, these product lines, taken together, are the basis of what we might call 'the
Google Tablet Would Have to Be Dirt Cheap and Great
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-01-06
The Google Nexus tablet rumor I wrote about here two weeks ago after Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt made some comments received new life from this brief DigiTimes report, which noted: Sources believe that Google will launch the own-brand tablet PC in March-April, featuring a 7-inch
