Clint Boulton

Google TV Tour Highlights Sony TVs, Logitech Revue Box, Apps by Clint Boulton Why Google TV Google explains why consumers would want to marry channel and Web surfing. How to Access Google TV Users must buy a Logitech Revue set-top box and connect it to their TV with an HDMI cable or buy a new […]

We in the media have spilled a fair share of digital ink over defections of Google employees, also known as Googlers, to its cross-town rival Facebook. The New York Times noted in its feature on what Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has meant for the young company that Facebook has poached some 200 workers from Google. […]

Early reviews of Google TV have started rolling in from applications makers who have customized apps for the emerging TV service, which aims to combine TV channel surfing and Web surfing. So far, so very, very good, according to Blip.tv CEO Mike Hudack, who wrote Oct. 4 after testing Google TV in his New York […]

Google has secured support for Google TV from Turner Broadcasting, NBC Universal, HBO, Amazon and several others, paving the way for an ambitious launch this month. Google TV is the search engine’s bid to successfully wed television programming with Web surfing. For example, users will be able to watch TV, surf the Internet and access […]

Twitter crossed another threshold in its evolution as a major advertising platform Oct. 4 with the ceding of the CEO reins by Evan Williams to COO Dick Costolo and the launch of Promoted Accounts. Williams, who created Twitter along with Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey after selling his company Blogger to Google and leaving the […]

Google Oct. 1 purchased BlindType, whose software may be used on Apple’s iPhone, iPad and Google Android devices to make typing easier, for an undisclosed sum. BlindType lets users type pretty much anywhere on the device’s touchscreen, recognizes users’ gestures and translates them into text. The idea is that users needn’t watch their keyboard the […]

T-Mobile USA Oct. 4 said it is upgrading its myTouch smartphone line with a new Android 2.2 handset capable of hitting 4G speeds. The new myTouch is built by HTC and has a 3.8-inch, WVGA screen with virtual keyboard and the Swype gesture text input application. The handset is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 1GHz MSM8255 […]

In what has become a familiar pattern, Google’s Chrome Web browser gained more market share through September and now sits at 7.98 percent, according to Net Applications’ new data. This time, Chrome took share from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which had risen back above 60 percent. IE closed out September at 59.65 percent market share, down […]

Twitter Site Redesign Apes iPad App with Two-Pane Display by Clint Boulton New Twitter Logo in White Twitter christens its redesigned Website with a new logo. New Twitter Logo in Black Also, see the Twitter logo available in black. Revamped Homepage Check out the new Twitter homepage. It’s not as Spartan as it used to […]

When Microsoft filed its patent infringement suit versus Motorola Oct. 1, it joined Apple and Oracle in their attack against Google’s Android operating system, which has come on strong in the latter half of 2010. Microsoft claimed Motorola’s Android smartphones violated nine software patents related to synchronizing e-mail, calendars and contacts; scheduling meetings; and notifying […]

When rumors bubbled up last week that Research In Motion was set to unveil a tablet computer, talk turned to how the device would battle Apple’s iPad and devices based on Google’s Android operating system. It turns out that the PlayBook-as the world learned it was called after its launch at the BlackBerry Developer Conference […]

When Google CEO Eric Schmidt was asked what he thought of Twitter Sept. 28 at TechCrunch Disrupt, he acknowledged that the microblog should be able to come up with ad products that are highly lucrative. “We think they are going to do very, very well,” Schmidt said, adding that the platform has scaled well. While […]