Clint Boulton

These days, the mere mention that Google is offering a new VOIP (voice over IP) service raises concerns about whether the company is creeping closer to becoming a carrier. One industry analyst raised this question last month when Google unveiled Call Phones from Gmail. With Call Phones from Gmail, users can type the name of […]

Verizon, whose Droid line of smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system has proved popular among consumers, is doing more to appeal to enterprise users of Android handsets. The No. 1 wireless carrier Sept. 16 selected Good Technology to provide security and remote data access software for corporate workers using the Motorola Droid, Droid 2, […]

Analysis: Yahoo, the maligned Internet company, found itself in familiar territory during its Product Runway press event Sept. 16. The company, once the gold standard of Internet portals where early Web adopters feasted on news and other information, pulled back the curtain on new search user interface tools and a snappier Yahoo Mail interface. While […]

Google is hurdling toward its fall release for its Google TV service, which aims to blend Web and television consumption in a tidy package that includes a Logitech Revue set-top box with remote control or an Android-enabled TV from Sony. Both the Revue and Sony TVs will be sold by Best Buy. However, reports on […]

The consensus that Google’s Android operating system is taking share from the smartphone platforms of Research In Motion, Apple and Microsoft continued Sept. 15 with comScore’s latest mobile report. The research firm said Android grew its U.S. smartphone market share from 12 percent to 17 percent in the three-month period ending in July, vaulting over […]

Google retained its 65 percent market share for the month of August, though rival Yahoo nibble a bit at the search leader’s market share, according to comScore. Google tallied 65.4 percent of U.S. searches, down from 65.8 percent. Yahoo, which lost search share for most of 2009 before stabilizing in 2010, rose to 17.4 percent […]

There’s been a growing feeling among Google watchers that Google’s Health initiative is not well. And that’s the last health-related pun you’ll read from me in this post. Google Health launched more than two years ago and not much seems to be happening on that front. Or rather, it’s happening very slowly. John Moore, founder […]

Skyhook Wireless, a maker of software that helps determine the location of cell phones, filed separate patent infringement and tortious interference lawsuits against rival Google. Skyhook’s software enables cell towers, GPS technologies and WiFi location databases to talk to each other to help pinpoint the location of a mobile device, such as a smartphone. Google […]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt raised eyebrows by saying Google is adding social Web services in layers as opposed to a singular social network to challenge Facebook’s fortress. Several signs earlier this spring pointed to a major assault on Facebook. Rumors of a social network effort, called Google Me, burbled forth in June. Google fueled the […]

I had a dream, a dream that Google would build a super social network to defend its turf versus Facebook, the feisty upstart looking to supplant Google as the place to be online. Instead, I’ll have to settle for threads of social woven into the fabric that comprises Google’s Web services. In a Vulcan-like, somewhat […]

Twitter is slowly rolling out a redesigned Twitter.com Web site, departing from the spartan design to include photos, videos and other information directly on the Web page. While the traditional Twitter timeline will be featured, users will see additional info under each tweet. When users click on the tweet, a detail pane slides out to […]

Verizons Samsung Fascinate Swaps Microsoft Bing for Google Search, Maps by Clint Boulton Meet the Fascinate Out of the box, the Fascinate is a gorgeous piece of hardware, super light and sporting a shiny enclosure. Samsung calls its “mirror black with chrome details.” The device has 2GB of internal memory expandable to 32GB. The Fascinate’s […]