Clint Boulton

Google’s Gmail Labs team is letting Gmail users sift through documents, presentations, spreadsheets and Websites with Apps Search. When users enable this capability in the Gmail Labs tab under Settings, the “Search Mail” button that sits atop their Gmail in-box will say “Search Mail and Docs.” When users search, results for relevant Docs and Sites […]

Facebook Aug. 18 unveiled its long-awaited geotagging service, an effort that could move the market for location-based services forward considerably even as it threatens startups such as Foursquare and Gowalla. Similar to Foursquare and Gowalla, Facebook Places lets users “check in” to a location via their smartphone to share their locations in real time with […]

Google Aug. 18 added bike lane and trail data to cover an additional 80 cities for its Google Maps biking directions service. The search engine doesn’t release stats very often, but with all of the vitriol expended over the “Google Maps Street View WiSpy” scandal, it’s clear Google could help its cause by pumping up […]

Days after four Democratic members of Congress expressed concern about Google and Verizon’s broadband proposal, lobbyists took up the cause to create their own proposal for network neutrality. The Information Technology Industry Council, a lobbying group that includes tech companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and Cisco Systems, is holding court to hash out a new […]

Google’s Android Market is criticized for spam, piracy and inadequate security, but there is another big issue that is hindering the application store’s growth. That snafu is paid applications, or the lack thereof in Android Market. Android developers can sell apps to consumers through Android Market in only 13 countries. These countries include the United […]

Google developers Mark DeLoura and Michael Mahemoff showed off the latest progress of the Chrome Web Store at the Games Developer Conference in Europe, which is fitting because the Web Store is initially geared around serving online games for Web users. Google May 19 introduced the Chrome Web Store at Google I/O to help developers […]

The Google tablet rumor continues to twirl, with the latest reports claiming Google, HTC and Verizon are launching a tablet computer Nov. 26 to grab some of the growing market Apple’s iPad is carving out. The kicker in this Download Squad report is that the device is not based on Google’s open-source Android operating system […]

Review: The Motorola Droid 2 is the type of QWERTY slider smartphone the world was waiting for last fall when the phone maker launched the original Droid on Verizon Wireless. That may seem a bit harsh for the Motorola Droid, which I genuinely liked when I tested it and the Droid Eris back in November. […]

Yahoo’s ceding of its search engine to Microsoft Bing is accelerating, as the Internet company said it will begin shuttling its search infrastructure to Microsoft in the United States and Canada later this week. Yahoo will post an update when the organic search transition is complete. Meanwhile, users will see “Powered by Bing” badges at […]

Yahoo Aug. 17 released a version of Yahoo Mail for Apple’s popular iPad tablet computer, which sold more than 4 million units in its first few months. The release comes several months after Google fashioned a version of Gmail for the iPad’s large touch screen, and six weeks after Yahoo launched an HTML5 mobile Webmail […]

Droid 2 Shines with Google Voice Actions, Chrome to Phone by Clint Boulton Droid 2 Dimensions Like the Motorola Droid, the Droid 2 weighs about 6 ounces, but doesnt feel as heavy. It’s still a porker compared to the HTC Droid Incredible, which shares the Droid 2’s 3.7-inch screen but trims the virtual keyboard to […]

Apple’s iPhone corralled more than half of the mobile ad impressions on smartphones, while smartphones using Google’s Android operating system powered the platform past Research In Motion’s BlackBerry in mobile ad hits. That’s according to the fresh July stats from Millennial Media, which remains one of the top independent mobile ad platforms standing after Apple […]