Clint Boulton

A frustrating news teaser bubbled out of the blogosphere today, starting with ReadWriteWeb’s report that Google would announce Google Circles, a super social product, at South By Southwest Interactive today. The teaser is that not only is Google not announcing anything news-oriented at SXSW, but it denied that Circles exists, according to AllThingsDigital. That’s straight […]

Facebook and Google’s YouTube unit last week served notice to streaming video powers Netflix and Amazon.com that they have taken a serious interest in the intersection of the Internet and films. Facebook shocked the tech world March 8 when it announced in conjunction with Warner Bros. that it will begin offering some movies for purchase […]

Despite competition that exists just a click away, the bull’s-eye on Google’s back has grown as big as its 65 percent U.S. search market share in the eyes of the U.S. Senate. One day after the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights vowed to ensure fair competition in the Internet search […]

Microsoft’s Bing search engine grabbed 13.6 percent search share through February, up from 13.1 percent from January as the company continues to peck away at Google’s search kingdom. ComScore said Google dipped to 65.4 percent from 65.6 percent through January after closing the year at a high of 66.6 percent following a strong holiday season […]

Anyone else for an Amazon.com Kindle tablet based on Google’s Android operating system as a challenger to Apple’s iPad 2? Analysts believe it’s not outside the realm of possibility for the e-commerce giant, which finds it lush e-book business challenged by sales of Apple’s iBooks, which recently crossed 100 million downloads on the iPad and […]

Motorola Xoom owners need only wait one more week to download Adobe Flash Player 10.2, which will be available via the Android Market as a beta, Adobe promised. Flash Player 10.2 will drop with general availability for Android 2.2 (Froyo) smartphones, such as the Motorola Atrix 4G and Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) devices, such as the […]

Google whipped up one of its customary crisis-response Websites to provide support information for those affected by the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that roiled the Pacific Ocean off Japan’s coast and triggered a tsunami March 11. On the 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami Google is offering real-time updates for the disaster, which is affecting other countries […]

Taking a page from Foursquare’s playbook, Google’s Latitude application is offering incentives such as free coffee and ice cream for users who check in to more than 60 businesses in Austin, Texas, for the South-by-Southwest Interactive show. Google Feb. 1 launched check-ins for its Google Latitude friend-finding application to help users share places they pop […]

Google March 10 added a new tool to let users block Websites they don’t like when searching on Google.com, part of the company’s evolving push to give its 1 billion-plus searchers more control over their user experience. The search engine is now showing an option next to the cached feature in search results to let […]

It’s a small technological gesture that means a whole lot. Google March 10 began letting users click to call numbers that friends, colleagues and other contacts send them in a Gmail e-mail or chat message. I tested this out last night with my number, which rendered as a link after I typed it and e-mailed […]

If one vendor could challenge Apple’s daunting iPad channel and ecosystem, it would be Amazon.com, according to a report from Forrester Research. Of course, the e-commerce and e-reading giant has to build a tablet first. Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps said that while the Motorola Xoom, HP TouchPad and RIM Blackberry PlayBook are solid alternatives […]

I’m always interested in seeing how search startups try to position themselves once they enter the market. Launching is the easy part. You get trendy tech blogs to buy into your approach and product (it helps to know people who will vouch for your work) and write about them, then you open for business and […]