Clint Boulton

Google Search, Plus Your World: What Is It and How to Stop It In October 2009, Microsoft announced an integration between Bing and Twitter at the Web 2.0 Summit along with hints of a similar agreement with Facebook. Google promptly turns around and unveils its own deal to index Twitter tweets at the event. These […]

The Google+ team has added a fun new feature to photos — the ability to add text within pictures. Take this picture I snagged at CES last week. Before sharing it on Google+, I click Add text: See here the options to add text above, in the middle of or below the picture: Then I […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has wrapped up its hush-hush testing of a new authentication feature that lets users log into their Google accounts by scanning QR codes from Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone or handsets based on the Android operating system. The feature allows users to log into their Google accounts from computers that aren’t their own. Google set […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) introduced its broadest play for Web security yet, launching its “Good to Know” advertising campaign to help educate consumers about how to protect themselves while surfing the Web. Unveiled in the U.S. Jan. 17, the multimillion-dollar Good to Know initiative includes privacy and security tips, such as how to use two-step verification, how […]

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) Jan. 16 said it has hired former U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra as its new executive vice president of emerging markets, snapping up the cloud-computing connoisseur fresh off of his teaching fellowship with the Kennedy School and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Kundra oversaw more than $80 billion in technology investments […]

I attended the high-tech tour de force known as the Consumer Electronics Show last week for two days in Las Vegas. It was my second year in a row covering the show. People have painted the show as increasingly irrelevant. Microsoft didn’t help when it vowed to pull out as keynote going forward, but CES […]

When a company needs to add a new technology platform that will improve business processes for employees and customers, the tendency is to tap the CIO to do the work. After all, he or she is the person responsible for the company’s tech infrastructure. You’d be forgiven for thinking this is also true for businesses […]

More than 70 percent of consumers who intend to purchase a smartphone over the next six months will purchase an Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone or a handset based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system, according to a Yankee Group survey. The researcher, which polled more than 15,000 people, learned that more than 47 percent of U.S. […]

Wall Street consensus is that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is expected to announce revenue of $8.38 billion on earnings per share of $10.46 for the fourth quarter. Yet some financial analysts are modeling for better results based on the company’s newer search enhancements and improvements to YouTube advertising. Specifically, Google’s “Panda” algorithm change, Instant predictive search technology […]

With anyone else, we call this outburst chutzpah, but this being media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and Murdoch almost always showing a propensity for saying Murdochian things, we’ll view this following Jan. 12 tweetburst via Twitter as de rigeur. Basically, Murdoch called out President Barack Obama and Google over the White House’s position on the Stop […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) said it plans to upgrade its Google TV software by the end of the year, adding fresh content and more personalized recommendations, and maintaining its annual software upgrade schedule. “We don’t intend to stop iterating,” Rishi Chandra, director of product management for Google TV, told BusinessWeek at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Facebook have engaged in a low-key war of words, following the controversial launch of Google’s “Search, plus your world” personal search feature Jan. 10. Search, plus your world has roiled the technology industry like no product since Google Buzz, the social conversation service the company replaced with its Google+ social network. That […]