Clint Boulton

Now that almost every high-end smartphone has received or is in the process of receiving the upgrade to Android 2.2, attention turns to Android 3.0, the Gingerbread build optimized for tablet computers. Thanks to Android-watching blog Phandroid, the world now knows a bit more. In addition to what appears to be a major graphical overhaul […]

Despite the enthusiasm around Microsoft Bing’s tighter integration with Facebook, Google hogs as much as 97 percent of all the search traffic on Apple’s iPhone, according to ad network Chitika. Apple’s mobile Safari toolbar sends 49 percent of traffic to Google, while the Google homepage racks up about 42.24 percent of the traffic on the […]

Less than two weeks after we learn that Marissa Mayer has been moved over to run Google’s geo/local efforts, the search engine she helped launch to global prominence is adding a location tab to the left-hand panel of its search results page on Google.com. To this point, when users wanted to view or manipulate their […]

Verizon Wireless Oct. 18 refreshed its mobile worker management application to work with phones based on Google’s Android operating system. The wireless carrier’s Field Force Manager is a location-based Web application that companies use to help track and communicate with mobile workers in the field. The app is especially useful for industries such as transportation, […]

Google Instant, the predictive search technology the company launched last month to serve users results without making them hit the Enter button, is popular but costly. Jonathan Rosenberg, Google’s senior vice president for product management, asserted on the company’s third-quarter earnings call Oct. 14 that not only was Instant not created to help Google make […]

Google Oct. 18 said it has added Google Docs, Google Sites and people profiles as new sources its Google Search Appliance is now surfacing for enterprises. Google Search Appliance is a computer server that Google sells to provide enterprises with private, secure search capabilities for their business information. The appliance starts at $15,000 per year. […]

The rise of mobile computing devices has been well-trodden ground in the media for the last few years, but researchers are crunching new data to quantify the growth and adoption of cell phones, gaming consoles and computers. Cell phones lead the pack. Pew Internet and American Life Project found that some 85 percent of U.S. […]

Google could use its Street View imagery as the backdrop for the company’s online gaming strategy if it chose to pursue this avenue. That’s the premise of this fun blog post by Phillip Winston, a computer graphics software programmer for a large neuroscience research lab. Noting that the cost of creating quality content is one […]

Google’s senior management surprised financial analysts on the company’s third-quarter earnings call by disclosing some hard numbers regarding Google’s display and mobile advertising businesses.Google Oct. 14 revealed a 32 percent Q3 profit hike, based on $2.17 billion on earnings per share of $6.72. Revenues totaled $7.29 billion, up 23 percent from the same period a […]

Google search star Marissa Mayer will head up the company’s ambitious, forward-looking plans to make search queries reach out to others instead of making users come find the results on their computers and smartphones. Google last week confirmed that it was tapping Mayer, who oversaw the search engine’s user interface for the last decade or […]

Seeking to defend its mobile computing turf against Verizon Wireless, AT&T Oct. 15 pledged to sell the iPad models with WiFi and 3G to enterprise customers with discounted wireless data plans.One day after Verizon Wireless vowed to begin selling the popular iPad, AT&T said it will begin selling the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models directly […]

Microsoft and Facebook have temporarily one-upped Google in social search with their new integration, but Google isn’t going quietly. Facebook Oct. 13 agreed to open its data feeds to let Microsoft’s Bing search engine index and serve profile information and Liked Results in relevant situations.The integration goes well beyond what Google has done with its […]