Clint Boulton

It’s no secret that Apple is racking up customers in the enterprise market, attracting more corporate users whose companies have reluctantly acceded to their employees’ desire to bring their iPhones and iPads to the office to use for both work and play. Research from mobile device management (MDM) software maker Good Technology suggests Apple iOS […]

This is my final post on Google Watch. Today, I’ve moved on to the next leg of my career at the Wall Street Journal, where I’ll be writing content for CIO Journal. So Google will move from the center of my coverage galaxy to somewhere on the periphery. The company continues to ply its trade […]

Some 90 percent of all Web-connected devices will have consumer cloud services tucked into them by the end of 2013, the better to help Web surfers quench their desire to store, synch, stream and share content from any device or platform. That’s the postulation from researcher Gartner, which defines the “personal cloud” as a system […]

Verizon Wireless March 6 published a list of smartphones and tablets that will get the Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, upgrade this year, with most of the devices designed to shuttle traffic for the carrier’s 4G LTE network. Launched in December 2010, Verizon’s (Long-Term Evolution) LTE network promises to facilitate data rates […]

Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE), which has always focused on social collaboration software, is going after Salesforce.com’s social customer relationship management (CRM) honey pot. The newly public company is launching the Jive Social Customer Service Solution to help companies craft engaging CRM strategies that involve social tools. The goals are typical for this type of software […]

One day after Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Web Service slashed its cloud infrastructure prices for the nineteenth time, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has chopped the rates for its Cloud Storage software product, which lets developers sock away great chunks of data on the search engine company’s servers. Google first introduced Cloud Storage at Google I/O in May 2010. The […]

The Google-watching world has been abuzz since yesterday about Google Play. No, it’s not a new streaming music service from the search giant, though you’d be forgiven for thinking so. Actually, the irony is that the moniker is indicative of how Google is trying to rationalize some of the confused branding and marketing its content […]

Chrome 17 has proven to be quite expensive for Google (NASDAQ:GOOG). The search giant on March 4 said it just paid $47,500 in bug bounties and bonuses to reward researchers who helped find flaws in the browser’s stable channel update. That’s a substantial hike from the stable build’s initial launch Feb. 8, when Google paid […]

Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad HD (or iPad 3?) launch March 7 is stirring up tablet talk mania to a fever pitch, so it’s only fitting that Forrester Research is ratcheting up its guidance for tablet unit shipments through 2016. The researcher said it expects 112.5 million U.S. adults to have a tablet by 2016, up from […]

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) March 5 raised the file size limit for Android Market application submissions to 4GB, an effort to accommodate apps that require more local storage. Previously, Google allowed apps up to 50 megabytes. However, the proliferation of 3D interactive games and other fat apps geared to run on today’s smartphones and tablet computers […]