Clint Boulton

NEW YORK-Sony Oct. 12 introduced a new Blu-Ray player and four Sony Internet TVs powered by Google TV, ranging from $599 to $1,399, as the company became the first to deliver Google’s new service on a TV set.Based on Google’s Android operating system and powered by an Intel Atom processor, Google TV combines TV content […]

Google’s September U.S. search market share crept up to 66.1 percent from 65.4 percent in August, according to new data released from comScore Oct. 13.Perennial No. 2 search player Yahoo, whose results are now powered by Microsoft Bing, slipped from 17.4 percent in August to 16.7 percent through September. This may be a continued trend […]

Verizon Wireless Oct. 13 teamed with Amazon.com to preload the Kindle for Android application on the application screens of the Samsung Fascinate and Motorola Droid X and Droid 2 smartphones.Kindle for Android lets readers search, download and read from more than 700,000 books in the Kindle Store from their Android phone.Features of the app include […]

Windows Phone 7 is out, or at least the mobile-watching world has seen the devices and is largely impressed by them, if not overwhelmed with excitement. Good for Microsoft, bad for Google. Many bloggers are already opining about how Windows Phone 7 will shred Android in the market. Pick your reason. Microsoft’s strong quality control […]

Google is reaping the early rewards of Yahoo’s search integration with Microsoft, as the search engine saw its share of paid search spend rise 2 percent for the third quarter. Web marketer Efficient Frontier said Google’s share of paid search rose from 75.8 percent in the second quarter of 2010 to 77.9 percent in Q3. […]

Google confirmed it has acquired Everything is the Best, the startup that built social calendar application Plannr to help users make plans with friends.A spokesperson for Google declined to discuss the search engine’s plans for the company, founded by Jason Prado an Ben Eidelson. However, the Google spokesperson noted:“The team has built several innovative mobile […]

Yahoo Search BOSS, the developer search service whose future was thrown into doubt when Microsoft Bing began powering Yahoo’s search results this past summer, is moving to a paid model with oAuth security access in 2011.Launched in 2008 as part of Yahoo’s plan to open up its search platform to developers, Yahoo Search BOSS (Build […]

Yahoo Oct. 12 said it has added video calling capability to its instant messaging application for the iPhone, rivaling Apple’s own FaceTime video conferencing product. Available for free now in Apple’s App Store, Yahoo Messenger App for iPhone let users make voice and video calls to their contacts using Yahoo Messenger on their PCs, as […]

Google Oct. 12 embarked on its latest green technology product with a plan to power offshore windmills by connecting underseas cables along the Atlantic coastline. Google is investing 37.5 percent of the equity in the early going for the Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) backbone, which will span 350 miles of the coast from New Jersey […]

One of the interesting tidbits of news teased from Google out of Logitech’s Oct. 6 launch of the Revue companion box and controller for Google TV was that Google has created a specialized flavor of search technology for the service, which weds channel surfing and Web surfing. Are you sitting down? Good. It’s called Google […]

Google and Logitech each propelled Google TV into the limelight this past week with content and product announcements, but it’s hard to find many analysts who believe the service will gain much traction in the market versus the likes of Apple TV and other products.Google TV aims to blend TV content and Web content in […]

Apple iAd was only launched in July but at least one industry analyst believes the platform has been so successful that it equals Google’s mobile ad revenue share. IDC analyst Karsten Weide said that Apple iAd comprises 21 percent of mobile ad sales, tying Google’s own 21 percent of revenues for 2010 after dropping the […]