Clint Boulton

Thanks to the launch of its iPhone 4 smartphone and iPad tablet computer, Apple bested Google in news coverage, grabbing 15.1 percent of technology headlines compared with 11.4 percent for Google. Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism culled its findings from headlines for 437 technology stories appearing in the lead sections of 52 […]

Has there been a high-tech company whose birthday has been more celebrated than Google’s? I doubt it, at least not each year. Apple and Microsoft and maybe Amazon and others may celebrate 5- and 10-year milestones, but Google lives it up every year, paying homage to, well, itself with special logos. Here is the latest, […]

The future looks brighter for Google’s Android mobile operating system than for Apple’s iOS, believe the majority of mobile application developers surveyed by software maker Appcelerator and researcher IDC. Some 58.6 percent of 2,363 developers polled in September said they think Android’s long-term outlook is brighter than iOS, compared with 34.9 percent who rank iOS’s […]

Mastering Googles Gmail Priority Inbox: Nine Tips to Get Up to Speed by Clint Boulton Priority Inbox Gmail Priority Inbox uses an algorithm to flag messages as important. The tool analyzes whom a person e-mails and chats with most, how often they e-mail people, and which keywords appear frequently in the e-mails they read. See […]

When Dell CEO Michael Dell unveiled a prototype of a 7-inch Android tablet computer Sept. 22 at Oracle OpenWorld, he generated more questions than answers. When will it appear? How much will it cost? Will carriers distribute it, or will Dell sell it direct and solely? Will it run Android 2.2 like Archos’ lineup or […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg agreed to plunk down $100 million worth of his company stock to seed Startup: Education, an effort to boost the public school system in Newark, N.J. The founder of the world’s largest social network made the announcement Sept. 24 on a conference call with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Newark […]

Google confirmed it has recently extended its search deal with Apple, keeping the leading search engine as the default app on Apple’s iPhone and iPad. Google CEO Eric Schmidt alluded to the deal in an interview with Charlie Rose, though he declined to provide more color about the deal terms, such as price and duration. […]

The Department of Justice Sept. 24 said it struck an antitrust settlement with Google, Apple, Adobe Systems, Intel, Intuit and Pixar that prevents them from agreeing not to poach each other’s employees for the next 5 years. The DOJ, which has investigated practices by the six technology companies for the last year, filed a civil […]

The launch of Google’s Chrome Web Store is almost nigh, with the team behind it prepping the application market for launch by adding Google Checkout support. That means developers will be able to get paid for their applications when the shop formally opens in October. Google unveiled Chrome Web Store at Google I/O in May […]

T-Mobile opened up its G2 Android smartphone for preorder here Sept. 24, guaranteeing that customers who order the phone beginning Sept. 24 through Oct. 4 will receive the handset on its Oct. 6 release day. The descendant of the T-Mobile G1, the first smartphone based on Google’s Android operating system, the G2 runs Android 2.2 […]

LinkedIn Sept. 23 announced its second acquisition, purchasing business ratings startup ChoiceVendor for an undisclosed sum. The company, founded by CEO Yan-David Erlich and Vice President of Engineering Rama Ranganath, offered ratings and reviews of call centers, payroll services and other service providers across 70 vertical markets in the United States. ChoiceVendor ceased operations and […]

The outage that darkened Facebook for two and a half hours Sept. 23 was caused by a software flaw in its database clusters, the company confirmed. Facebook went down-the company called it the “worst outage we’ve had in over four years”-around 1:30 p.m. EDT Thursday and didn’t go back up until 4 p.m. EDT. Some […]