Clint Boulton

Google TV was a frequent topic of conversation at the Web 2.0 Summit this week. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings provided a very CEO-style answer Nov. 17 when asked what he thought about the Web-meets-TV-surfing service and Apple’s own Apple TV streaming service. He’s a good man to ask, though not exactly unbiased; Netflix is a […]

Google’s Android operating system has nibbled at and caught up to Apple iOS in ad impressions, with each grabbing 37 percent share, according to the new Millenial Media Mobile Mix report. Android smartphone ad impressions grew 8 percent from the September report, when it tallied 29 percent to iOS’ 46 percent share of impressions. Research […]

Motorola’s Droid Pro, which Verizon Wireless is selling now for $179.99 after a $100 rebate with a two-year deal, presents a case study in smartphones that look great, feel great in the hand, but whose user experience is wanting. That sums up the Droid Pro hardware, which I will circle back to after covering the […]

Google in May began retooling its Google Apps infrastructure to make all Google applications available via single sign-on from users’ Apps accounts. The company ratcheted up this effort in September, allowing users of Blogger, Google Reader, Google Voice and calling-in-Gmail Picasa Web Albums, AdWords and iGoogle from their Google Apps accounts. Google Nov. 18 said […]

Tablet computers based on Google’s Android operating system will make up 15 percent of the worldwide market in 2011, nibbling at Apple’s iPad share similar to the way Android smartphones gained on Apple’s popular iPhone. That’s the prediction from IMS Research, which also expects Android tablets to command 28 percent of tablet share by 2015. […]

Google increased its search share to 66.3 percent through October, from 66.1 percent in September, with challenger Microsoft Bing growing from 11.2 percent to 11.5 percent over the same period. ComScore said the total queries powered by Google’s engine on partner sites, such as AOL and Ask, rose a touch, to 69.2 percent, from 69.1 […]

News Analysis: Twitter would still like to work with Facebook despite the companies’ failure to agree to an equal exchange of data, Twitter CEO Evan Williams said at the Web 2.0 Summit Nov. 17. The Web services share a lot of the same users, so connecting them makes sense. At least, it makes sense for […]

Facebook Messages Attempts to Outflank Gmail, Yahoo Mail by Clint Boulton Zuck on Messages Zuckerberg explains Facebook Messages to reporters at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco ahead of the Web 2.0 Summit Nov. 15. He spoke hours before Google CEO Eric Schmidt unveiled near field communications on Android 2.3 smartphones. Invitation to @Facebook.com […]

Google Nov. 17 filled a quirky hole in Google Apps, enabling editing of Google Docs from Apple iOS and Google Android devices. To this point, users have been able to view documents, presentations and drawings from the mobile Web browsers on their smartphones. However, they haven’t been able to edit documents, even after Google significantly […]

Google Nov. 17 launched Boutiques.com, a shopping comparison Website that leverages machine learning and computer vision to help users find and buy clothes and shoes online. Google, which timed the launch before Black Friday kicks off Nov. 26, argued that people shop for such products differently than they do for hard goods such as consumer […]

Federal Communication Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski blamed the lack of a new policy for network neutrality on a federal court’s decision to expel his agency’s bid to regulate Comcast’s online management. Genachowski, who spoke at the Web 2.0 Summit here Nov. 17, also said a parallel network neutrality plan from Google and Verizon threw a […]

SAN FRANCISCO-LinkedIn’s growth is now paced by new hiring solutions that surged in 2010 to become the business social network’s largest and fastest growing business. Hiring solutions help surface LinkedIn users with professional recruiters, said LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner at the Web 2.0 Summit here. While he declined to say what the private company’s revenues […]