Clint Boulton

What does Bing have going for it beside some cool, graphically pleasing search tools? Not market share, that’s for sure. Even as Yahoo’s search results pages are usurped by Microsoft’s search engine, I can’t help but view Google’s renewal and embellishment of its search deal with AOL as a minor blow to Bing. People aren’t […]

Apple’s iPhone iOS continued to lead the U.S. smartphone operating system ecosystem at 56 percent market share in August, but Google’s Android platform came on strong, notching a 25 percent plot, said data firm Quantcast. Apple said it is shipping 230,000 iOS-based devices per day. Apple’s iOS share was also buoyed from selling 1.7 million […]

Google Sept. 3 said it has added the ability for advertisers to attach several business addresses to its AdWords location extensions for Android-based smartphones. Launched in July, AdWords location extensions let members of Google’s Places program put their businesses’ location and phone number on an expandable map ad for mobile Websites and applications in Google’s […]

Google will shell out $8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit with seven people who argued the Google Buzz social service violated users’ privacy. Google appeared to launch Buzz Feb. 9 with good intentions, allowing users to opt in to a service that lets users share and discuss links, photos and videos with their Gmail […]

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the new Apple TV Sept. 1 in one of his patented oh-there’s-one-more-thing-moments, analysts rushed to compare the digital TV service to the forthcoming and ballyhooed Google TV. The freshened Apple TV is like the old hobbyist passion, albeit streamlined and sans storage. Where Apple once offered a $229 box […]

Google said Sept. 3 that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is conducting an antitrust probe of complaints that the company stifles Websites that compete with its search engine. Search Engine Land broke the news and Google Deputy General Counsel Don Harrison confirmed the investigation in a blog post. Abbott’s office declined to discuss the case […]

Skype’s second beta for Skype 5.0 for Windows allows users to make group video conference calls for up to 10 people. The leading provider of PC-to-PC VOIP (Voice over IP) calls released the update Sept. 2, more than a week after Google launched a Call Phones from Gmail service to compete with Skype’s calling service […]

Consumer Watchdog is ratcheting up its rhetoric in a move to get Congress to investigate Google over data privacy concerns. The advocate group released a devastating video of Google CEO Eric Schmidt as a creepy ice cream man giving free ice cream to children and conducting full body scans with Google Analytics. Who knew that […]

Twitter has more than 145 million registered users, with mobile users jumping 62 percent since April after the company began offering its own mobile applications for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android. Twitter CEO Evan Williams published a rare state-of-the-company stats blog post Sept. 2, highlighting the company’s and platform’s growth since it held its first Chirp […]

Vlingo is finding new ways to differentiate its software for smartphones based on Google’s voice search application.The company Sept. 2 released a new feature for its Vlingo for Android application that lets users check in to Foursquare simply by speaking into their smartphone running Android 2.0 or later.Vlingo for Android lets users call friends, family […]

On Sept . 1, Twitter launched its official Twitter for iPad application, bringing tweeting and other content sharing to Apple’s popular tablet computer. Many of Twitter’s 100 million-plus users are calling out Web pages, photos, videos, hashtags, people, check-ins and other objects with their tweets. Twitter for iPad is focused on letting users manage the […]

Google and AOL Sept. 2 inked a fresh five-year deal in which Google will power the search results on AOL’s Websites accessed from computers and mobile devices. Financial terms were not disclosed for the global deal, which includes a revenue-sharing arrangement per each search. Some analysts believe Google is sharing 90 percent of the ad […]