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Google Apps Integration With Google+ Due Soon
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-26
Where is the Google+ integration with Google Apps? Not to be a stickler (OK, when a journalist says that, a stickler is exactly what he is being) but one week ago today Google Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra told the Web 2.0 Summit crowd that he and his
iHypocrite: Why Jobs Was Wrong to Go Thermonuclear on Android
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-25
It feels painfully petty calling a deceased man who brought the world so much joy with consumer electronics devices hypocritical, but bloggers have to tell it like it is.
One of the themes that has bubbled up in the wake of Apple founder Steve Jobs' passing has been the
Steve Jobs Showed Super Class by Not Turning Page Away
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-24
One of the many tidbits pulled early out of Walter Isaccson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs, titled "Steve Jobs," is that Google CEO Larry Page sought Jobs' advice earlier this year before taking back the CEO reins in April. Jobs originally wanted to blow Page off, seeing as
Google Isn't Serious About Not Competing with Siri
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-21
AllThingsDigital's Ina Fried, one of my favorite mobile reporters, scored a nice little chat with Google Android creator Andy Rubin about Apple's new Siri virtual personal assistant software, arguably one of the biggest draws of the iPhone 4S. Rubin said: I don't believe that your phone should be
What Google's Sergey Brin Is Up to These Days
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-20
Well, I learned something new from Sergey Brin's appearance with Google+ guru Vic Gundotra at yesterday's Web 2.0 Summit. Did you know that Brin is leading Google's driverless car effort to enable cars to tool around autonomously powered by an on-board computer and cameras? There is
Why Google+ Has Uphill Battle vs. Facebook: Sean Parker
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-19
To my mind, the best question put to Sean Parker (he of Napster fame) here at the show in San Francisco Oct. 17 was whether Google+ had a shot at challenging Facebook and its massive user base of 800 million people. Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney asked: "What's
Google, Apple, Amazon Facebook Square Off in Cloud, Mobile, Social
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-18
These are exciting and excruciating times to be a Google watcher. One of the things I've tried to pay the most attention to in the past three years are emerging threats that rise up to challenge Google.
I mean, they've got search as we now know and use
Google Voice Starts Photos, MMS on Sprint
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-17
Great news for Google Voice users. The phone calling application, which lets users route phone calls to several phones using one phone number, will now allow users to receive photos and other multimedia messages from Sprint subscribers. Google said any multimedia attachments will display on their
Samsung Galaxy Nexus Launch Set for Oct. 19... in China
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-14
As promised, Samsung and Google have rescheduled their Galaxy Nexus launch event. It will now take place Oct. 19 in Hong Kong at 10 a.m. HKT.
If you recall, the partners in Android were slated to launch the smartphone during their Samsung Mobile Unpacked event at CTIA Oct. 11.
Google+ Doomed by Lack of Platform Prowess?
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-13
Another Chicken Little has surfaced to cry the sky is falling on Google+, or at least talk about how much the social network blatantly mimics Facebook and that's why it won't succeed. Normally, this is grain-of-salt fodder from tech pundits like myself. But this rant comes from Steve
How Google+ Can Make a Dent in Facebook's User Engagement
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-12
At a time when the majority of blog posts concerning Google+ either have the social network credibly challenging Facebook or dying on the vine, GigaOm's Matt Ingram offers a refreshingly balanced summary of what people may or may not be getting out of Google+ to keep them there.
His
Motorola Android Product Launch Coincides with Web 2.0 Summit
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-11
No one enjoys conflicts of schedule, but this latest one really annoys me. Motorola Mobility, the major Android OEM maker being acquired by Google, is co-hosting a smartphone and tablet unveiling with Verizon Wireless in New York City Oct. 18, which is smack dab in the middle of
Google+ and Google's Antisocial Management Ranks
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-10
So I want to address the meme that Google's top executives are not heavy Google+ users after Michael DeGusta posted this piece lamenting the lack of updates by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and other big wigs at Google. DeGusta, an entrepreneur
Google Can Challenge Facebook By Separating Signal from Noise
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-07
It's a constant question to which there is never a satisfactory answer. Google Executive Chairman was asked by PBS correspondent Gwen Ifill this week if Google could beat Facebook at its own game" vis-a-vis the Google+ social network. As you can see from the clip, Schmidt,
How Steve Jobs' Relationship With Google Evolved
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-06
This is how Google's homepage looks, one day after Apple founder Steve Jobs passed away after a long bout of illness that started with pancreatic cancer in 2004: Clicking the link to Jobs' name takes you to Apple's homepage, which brought tears to my eyes when
