Clint Boulton

Google+ is now supporting nicknames and names in another script in addition to its required “real names” policy, the social network’s latest olive branch to accommodate different modes of identity. However, the company fell short on supporting all pseudonyms, which is what many people were looking for so they can speak their mind on the […]

Users of Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) YouTube video sharing Website are uploading 60 hours of video every minute, or one hour of video each second. That’s marked growth from 2007, when YouTube saw 6 hours of video a minute uploaded. This stat grew rapidly over the last five years, rising to 24 hours in early 2010, then […]

Google has upgraded the Hotel Finder travel search feature, adding an option to help users filter hotels by how close they want to be to a place when looking for a place to stay. Launched last July to help travelers narrow their options for hotel stays, Hotel Finder surfaces hotels in densely populated cities by […]

Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have ganged up on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) controversial personal search results feature with Focus on the User, an effort to show what Google’s search results would be like if they retrieved results from other Web services. The initiative is an answer to Search, plus your world, the social search service Google launched […]

With more than 500,000 applications in the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store, and what most developers believe to be the best payment platform for mobile Web apps, Apple’s iOS platform has the most developer momentum. Yet Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system figures to edge iOS in importance among software developers in the next year, according to […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has changed the way users can create accounts on Google to push people toward the company’s email and social services. As discovered by Google Operating System, when users create Google accounts from the search engine company’s homepage, they are forced to create a Google profile and a Gmail account and are automatically signed […]

Over at VentureBeat, Rocky Agrawal is outraged at Google for being “intellectually dishonest” regarding the user engagement the company is seeing in its Google+ social network. As I noted Saturday, Google CEO Larry Page counted 90 million Google+ accounts, but declined to say how frequently users were accessing +, what they were doing there and […]

Amazon’s Kindle Fire could be making the e-commerce giant $136 per device in content sales, according to estimates from RBC Capital. When financial analysts in September learned Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) would sell its Kindle Fire tablet for $199.99, the assumption was that there was no way the e-commerce giant would make money on the devices itself […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) spring cleaning continued into the winter, as the company said it will shutter, merge or open-source more software products, including Picnik, Google Sky Maps and Google Message Continuity. Google CEO Larry Page embarked on his “more wood behind fewer arrows” strategy to focus on more products and cut others shortly after taking the […]

One wouldn’t think a company stocked with geniuses who excel at achieving algorithmic excellence would have trouble deliver statistics. Even so, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) managed to confound some folks with its Google+ usage statistics. On the company’s fourth quarter earnings call Jan. 10, Google CEO Larry Page was quite clear that the Google+ social network had […]