Clint Boulton

When portraying yourself as an underdog in an online travel industry where you’re claiming Google will have the prohibitive edge if it is allowed to acquire the leading flight fare and schedule data provider, it’s probably best to appear humble and weaker. Which is exactly what Kayak co-founder and CTO Paul English didn’t do in […]

While most folks who attended or followed Apple’s iPad 2 event March 2 were hungrily lapping up Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ highlight reel of new features and stats, I was looking for different info: price. How much would the iPad 2 cost? Because with all of the hand-wringing over the Motorola Xoom’s $599 price point […]

Google, which has been quietly reworking its software products to become more social, has redesigned Google Profiles to make it easier for users to add information about themselves. Arguably the lynchpin in Google’s efforts to add social layers to its Web services, Google Profiles allows users to add personal and professional information about themselves, providing […]

Google’s Android operating system took 29 percent of U.S. smartphone market share in January, breaking a statistical tie with Apple’s iOS and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry platforms in growing 2 percentage points from December. However, Nielsen data also noted that while Android handsets might have a slight edge over the iPhone and BlackBerry-powered gadgets, RIM […]

Taking a page out of the books of Web-based storage providers, Google March 1 began offering User Managed Storage to meet Google Apps customers’ requirements for additional space for their content in the cloud. Google Apps is the search engine’s suite of e-mail, document, presentation, spreadsheet and other apps, all residing on servers in Google’s […]

Normally it would be hard to compose a review of a tablet computer on the same day Apple’s iPad 2 is unveiled, but Motorola’s Xoom, the first slate based on Google’s Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” operating system, makes it easy. I imagine a lot of blood, sweat and tears went into making this tablet with a […]

Facebook March 1 said it has acquired Beluga, a group messaging startup founded by three former Google employees. Beluga’s software, which will continue to work for its existing users for the near future, allows people to conduct group chat sessions via SMS from their mobile phones. Beluga users create a “pod,” or group of people, […]

Motorola Mobility’s Xoom tablet costs more than gadget experts expected because it was loaded with premium features to compete with Apple’s iPad 2, said CEO Sanjay Jha. Motorola launched its 10.1-inch Xoom, based on Google’s Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” operating system, Feb. 24 from Verizon Wireless. The slate costs $599 with a two-year, minimum 1GB data […]

You’re going to have to excuse me on this post because it underscores how much I feel the little guys who suck from the Google teat doth protest too much, but… I read a bunch of coverage about how Yelp feels Google gave it an ultimatum with regard to its placement on the not-quite-excellent (but […]

Google’s Chrome Web browser nudged up to 10.9 percent through February, showing just a touch of growth from January when it hit 10.7 percent market share, according to Net Applications. Microsoft Internet Explorer rallied, growing from 56 percent through January to 56.8 percent in February, the market researcher reported March 1. Microsoft noted in a […]

Google said a storage software update introduced the bug that made e-mail messages and other data disappear from .02 percent of its users Feb. 27. Assuming Gmail has 150 million or so users, some 30,000 people did not receive new e-mail messages sent between 6 p.m. PST Feb. 27 to 2 p.m. PST Feb. 28. […]

The last day of February 2011 could be known as Google Ad Evangelism Day, as key company executives touted the might of the mobile and display ad markets at two separate events. Google CEO Eric Schmidt continued his mission to tout Google’s mobile cloud computing services at the Interactive Advertising Bureau meeting in Palm Springs, […]