Clint Boulton

Not long after Google revolted against China after a Gmail hack, Google launched a service report Web page for mainland China. Reporters, including myself here and for eWEEK, ran reports about how this search or mobile Web service was blocked by China’s curtain of censorship. Unfortunately, because China is such a black box when it […]

Verizon Wireless formally unveiled its V Cast Apps application store Sept. 21, opening a new rivalry with partner Google and its Android Market. The No. 1 wireless carrier has enjoyed a fruitful partnership with Google, shipping millions of its Droid line of smartphones based on the search engine’s Android operating system. Google mobile applications are […]

Fuze Box Sept. 21 said its mobile meeting software for Apple’s popular iPad tablet computer has been approved by the computer maker’s App Store. Web collaboration powers such as Cisco’s Web Ex and Citrix already offer iPad applications. But Fuze Meeting for iPad is unique in that it is the first online meeting app that […]

Google in the coming weeks will unveil mobile editing functionality for Google Docs running on Google’s Android and Apple’s iPad. Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard, who noted that Google Apps now has 3 million business customers, said his team demonstrated the tools at the Google Atmosphere cloud computing event in Paris Sept. 20. Girouard, tasked […]

Industry experts are torn on the idea that Facebook is building a social networking phone to compete with Google and Apple in the mobile Web. TechCrunch ignited the blogosphere Sept. 20 when it reported the company was building a mobile operating system and other software to host on a handset made by hardware makers such […]

Apple has purchased Swedish computer vision startup Polar Rose, which makes facial recognition software Apple could leverage in an alternative application to Google Goggles. Polar Rose offers computer vision software, or applications that use complex algorithms to identify and derive meaning from images instead of text. The company ceased offering its free tagging system on […]

Lost in the news bite about Google adding two-factor authentication was the statistic that Google Apps now has 3 million business customers of various sizes. Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard made the announcement in a blog post Sept. 20 time for the Google Atmosphere cloud computing event in Paris. Girouard wrote: “As of today, more […]

Google Sept. 20 said it has added two-factor authentication for Google Apps, a move that should make the cloud collaboration software more palatable for enterprises requiring greater security. Two-factor verification is a boon at a time when passwords are often the weak link in the security fence software makers put up around their applications. People […]

Facebook is allegedly building a branded smartphone with deep integration into the handset’s contacts list, a move to give the company a horse in the mobile Web race versus Google and Apple. That’s the latest hot report from TechCrunch, which noted that Facebook is building the software for the phone and outsourcing a hardware maker […]

Google’s Android operating system may be riding high in 2010, but Apple’s App Store remains the mobile application market of choice for developers to get not only placement, but to also get paid. Application users who frequent Apple’s App Store download nearly twice as many apps as those who go to the Android Market or […]

More than 14 months after shutting the door on the official and third-party applications for Google Voice, Apple has relented, approving GV Mobile for the iPhone. Google Voice is a phone management application more than 1.4 million people use to route calls to their phones using a special phone number. The app, which enables free […]

When Samsung introduced its 7-inch Galaxy Tab at a media event in New York City, it offered plenty of product specifics but left availability and pricing to the four U.S. wireless carriers that will offer the device. The four major U.S. wireless device carriers-Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile-all said they plan to sell the […]