Clint Boulton

Some analysts who follow Apple believe the company is hoarding larger display technology to build a more robust Web television product. Apple COO Tim Cook said during the company’s first-quarter earnings call that it had paid $3.9 billion in inventory component prepayments and capital expenditures to three companies. Based on an analysis of Apple’s existing […]

Google Feb. 1 added check-in functionality to its Google Latitude application, allowing the service’s users to connect their location with specific places on Google Maps from their mobile phones. Google launched Latitude in February 2009 as a Google Maps feature that lets users see the approximate location of friends who opt to share their location. […]

Google Feb. 1 launched Google Shopper for iPhone, months after unveiling the mobile shopping assistant on its own Android platform. Google Shopper lets users search for products by text or voice input, choose a specific product that looks useful, and compare prices at online and local retailers-all from their Android handset or iPhone. Users who […]

There is a delicious piece of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) being circulated that I can’t ignore from Eric Raymond in his blog last week. Seizing on an Associated Press article in which AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said the company will start “very aggressively” marketing smart phones based on the Google Android operating system, Raymond […]

Google Feb. 3 brought its Chrome 9 Web browser build into the stable channel Feb. 3, adding support for WebGL, Chrome Web Store and Chrome Instant. WebGL provides hardware-accelerated 3-D graphics to the browser so that Chrome’s users don’t have to download additional software plug-ins to load and access 3-D Websites and applications. One shining […]

Social business software users reported a nearly 40 percent increase in “employee connectedness,” while 42 percent reported a boost in communication with customers. The findings stem from a survey social business software vendor Jive Software commissioned of 500 people in more than 300 Jive customer companies in worldwide in December. These businesses spanned high-tech, financial […]

AT&T said Feb. 3 it would begin selling the Motorola Atrix 4G smartphone March 6 for $199.99 with a two-year contract, hewing to the contract and pricing schemes of high-end smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system. AT&T will allow customers to order the Atrix 4G in a pre-sale starting Feb. 13, or three days […]

Salesforce.com Feb. 1 acquired project management software maker Manymoon, which shot to fame courtesy of its high profile on the Google Apps Marketplace in 2010. Financial terms were not disclosed. Google’s Apps Marketplace launched in March 2009 as an online store to help smaller Web-based software companies sell enterprises business applications that integrate with Google […]

So if you’ve been following the stated: “We do not copy results from any of our competitors. Period. Full stop. We have some of the best minds in the world at work on search quality and relevance, and for a competitor to accuse any one of these people of such activity is just insulting.“ Fine. […]

Google Feb. 2 launched the Android Market Webstore, a Website dedicated to letting application consumers purchase apps for their Android smartphones and tablets from a Web browser. To this point, users had to purchase Android apps through the Android Market client from smartphones and tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab. This experience made it […]

Google Feb. 1 said it has begun taking its Street View Google Maps feature into art galleries to bring images of art works to consumers’ computers via the Web. One of the search engine’s famed 20 percent projects, Google’s Art Project aims to bring more than 1,000 works of art to people who might not […]

Motorola is throwing Apple’s own iconic marketing muscle back into its mighty face as it prepares to launch the iPad-challenging Xoom tablet computer. Notably, the company that has pinned its hopes on Android is airing an ad during the Super Bowl Feb. 6 that is designed to denigrate the iPad and pump up the Xoom, […]