Clint Boulton

When it comes to cloud computing and the idea that Google’s new Chrome Operating System can be a reliable portal for that movement, people either like the idea or hate it. Chrome OS is Google’s operating system to the cloud, running Web applications in the Chrome Web browser. Google stores these Web apps on its […]

As Google is trying to gain traction selling books, a free software tool that helps scholars analyze what words and phrases were popular several centuries ago is wowing researchers and media. Google Dec. 16 launched Google Books Ngram Viewer, a data visualization tool that crawls 500 billion words culled from 5.2 million books published between […]

Google Dec. 17 refused to give personal data accidentally collected from Connecticut citizens to the state attorney general, a move that could precipitate legal action. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal Dec. 10 issued the search engine a civil investigative demand to retrieve data Google’s Street View cars accidentally collected over unsecured WiFi networks. Blumenthal’s demand, for […]

Google this week is issuing its first over-the-air upgrades to Google TV, enriching the Netflix application preloaded in the service and offering a Google Remote application to control the service. Google in October launched the ambitious Google TV service, which lets users surf the Web and TV channels using Google’s Android-based operating system, Chrome browser […]

What you’re looking at above is Google Body Browser, an experiment from Google Labs that leverages the WebGL graphics standard from the latest Chrome 9 browser beta to model the human body and all of its intricacies in 3D. Here’s how Google describes it: “Body Browser is a detailed 3D model of the human body. […]

Googles Best and Worst Products, Features of 2010 by Clint Boulton Android OK, you got us. Android wasn’t launched in 2010. But 2010 was the year Android caught fire en route to seeing more than 300,000 activations per day around the world, spanning almost 200 devices. Fueling $1 billion in mobile ads a year, the […]

LinkedIn users with Android smartphones have long felt left out, but that is set to change as the social network for professionals launched its LinkedIn for Android application to beta Dec. 16. LinkedIn for Android offers many of the same features available to mobile users of LinkedIn’s BlackBerry, iPhone and Windows Mobile apps. These include […]

Google and Yahoo each lost a smidgen of search engine market share to Microsoft Bing, which rose to 11.8 percent share through November, according to researcher comScore. Google maintained its 66 percent search engine market share through November, slipping from 66.3 percent to 66.2 percent during the holiday shopping month. Yahoo, whose search is now […]

Google and MySpace renewed their search and advertising deal Dec. 16, likely at a reduced cost to the $900 million the search engine paid to place ads on the fallen social network four years ago. In the new multiyear agreement, Google will continue to power MySpace Web search and text-based search ads, along with some […]

Google has added 3D and offline capabilities to its new Maps 5.0 for Android application, making the app more interactive and reliable for people trying to get a handle on navigation. Google Maps has rendered streets and buildings using a flat tile graphics for the last five years. The company decided it was time to […]

Last week Google sent me the Samsung Nexus S, the first Android 2.3-based smartphone and the follow-up to the ambitious but ill-fated Nexus One launch at the beginning of the year. With hardware built by Samsung and software built and or assigned by Google, the Nexus S launched from Best Buy’s online and brick-and-mortar stores […]

For the third time in December, Google found itself defending its business practices from allegations of monopolistic and anticompetitive behavior. After refuting claims that it is squeezing out search engines in Europe and local review sites in the U.S. Google disagreed with Washington Post columnist Steve Pearlstein, who suggested Google’s acquisition wings should be clipped. […]