Clint Boulton

Google April 19 jazzed up Google Toolbar 7 for Internet Explorer with Google Instant, the company’s predictive search technology. Google Instant surfaces search results to users as they type their require, eliminating the need for users to hit the enter button. You’d be surprised how much time this saves users, who spend 9 seconds on […]

Those expecting Apple iPad-like lines for Research In Motion’s PlayBook April 19 might consider the device a failure, but at least one analyst called the device a success for shipping at least 45,000 units at launch. The 7-inch PlayBook costs $499 for the 16GB model, $599 for the 32GB model and $699 for the 64GB […]

Research In Motion may be getting ready to make a play for the Nortel Networks wireless networking patents Google has agreed to buy for $900 million. Bloomberg said RIM, which has been hemorrhaging smartphone market share to Google’s Android platform and Apple’s iPhone, is weighing whether or not to outbid Google for the 6,000 patents […]

Google April 20 introduced Google Earth Builder, a new service to let businesses host geospatial data on Google’s cloud computing network and access the data through a Web browser from any computing device. Earth Builder marks a departure from Google’s on-premise geo-mapping products to date. Google Earth is a free desktop download that maps the […]

Apple iOS devices outnumbered smartphones and tablets based on the Android operating system by 59 percent in the U.S., throwing a bucket of cold water on the notion that Google’s platform is beating up on iOS. The researcher–which has shown Android gobbling smartphone market share from the iPhone and RIM Blackberry for the last several […]

Google April 19 rolled out Google Map Maker in the United States, allowing citizens to add cartographic details about locations and businesses around the country. Google launched Google Map Maker in 2008, allowing people to add or edit roads, businesses, parks, schools and more for 183 countries around the world. Google supplies the online Map […]

Has anyone else noticed the new tweets section when you click into full coverage pages of Google News? Now when you click on a news cluster of stories from the front page, you’ll see related tweets aggregated in the right hand rail of Google News. It’s been live for two weeks and uses the same […]

Google upped its total clean energy spend to $350 million after pumping $100 million into the Shepherds Flat Wind Farm April 18. Spanning over 30 square miles in Arlington, Ore., Shepherds Flat is expected to cost $2 billion to build and should produce 845 megawatts of electricity, or enough to fuel more than 235,000 homes, […]

It’s hard not to look at the Kyocera Echo from Sprint as anything but a novelty device. The Android 2.2 smartphone, which went on sale April 17 for $199.99 with a two-year contract, is a chunky little brick of a smartphone with two 3.5-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreens (800 x 480 pixels) stacked atop one another. […]

Research In Motion’s PlayBook launches April 19 against a backdrop of sharp criticism, which has already forced some folks to write off the device as a credible challenger to Apple’s vaunted iPad. This after reports of weak sales for Motorola’s Xoom and reported delays for future Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” tablets; specifically, some industry watchers are […]

South Korean search powers NHN and Daum Communications have lodged complaints against Google with the country’s Fair Trade Commission for blocking local phone carriers and phone makers from adding their search applications to handsets and tablets running Google’s Android operating system. The move is the latest complaint against Google for the way it wields its […]

Google is giving up the ghost on Google Tags, the advertising service that let businesses flash little yellow shout-outs to call attention to their offerings on Google.com and Google Maps. Google launched Tags last April as part of the evolution of Google Local Business Center to the Google Places local listings service. For $25 per […]