Clint Boulton

Twitter, whose tweeting roots lie in SMS messaging from mobile phones, August 10 said it added a Fast Follow feature that will let anyone in the United States get tweets on their phone, even if they haven’t signed up for Twitter. Previously, mobile phone users had to be Twitter members to see tweets from the […]

If the Federal Communications Commission requires more firepower for its proposed National Broadband Plan, it can point to the fact that broadband adoption slowed to a crawl in 2010. Some 66 percent of American adults now use a high-speed Internet connection at home, up from 63 percent in 2009, according to the latest results from […]

Google is bringing its Street View technology to Germany this year, but not without some serious concerns by the country’s top privacy regulator. Google’s Street View is a Google Maps feature that offers live, ground-level photos to give users the lay of the land they’re searching. While the feature is offered in dozens of countries […]

Google Aug. 10 moved to improve Gmail Contacts, a move based on constructive criticism from some of the Webmail application’s roughly 200 million users. Gmail Product Manager Benjamin Grol said users have asked Google to make Contacts easier to use and offer tools to make Contacts more efficient. To wit, links to Gmail Contacts and […]

Verizon Wireless will begin accepting preorders online for the ballyhooed Motorola Droid 2 Aug. 11, with availability in Verizon stores the following day for $199 after a $100 mail-in rebate. Droid 2, one of the worst kept smartphone secrets for a company marketing smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system, is the successor to the […]

Updated: Information continues to spring from Verizon Wireless, which has bet heavily on Google’s Android operating system for phones and tablet computers. Boy Genius Report said Verizon and its partner in Droid phones Motorola are building a tablet with a 10-inch screen powered by a 1 GHz or 1.3 GHz processor. The tablet, according to […]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg vehemently denied brokering a deal for paid prioritization of public Internet services as part of a media call to outline their companies’ plan for open broadband deployment. However, the two leaders acknowledged the possibility of managed services trafficking at higher speed on separate pipes, a tiered […]

Less than a week has passed since Google vowed to ax new development on Google Wave and dismayed users of the user-generated content persuasion are already going to bat for a real-time collaboration service. Google Wave rolls e-mail, instant messaging, live character typing and social networking on one palette and it didn’t catch on because […]

Google’s purchase of social application maker Slide and $100 million investment in online gaming provider Zynga provide a window into the company’s social network strategy. The search engine clearly feels, as Facebook and MySpace did before it, that people want to use social widgets and play games to enhance their social network experience. Some believe […]

Wowd has built an application that uses Facebook APIs to pull content from the leading social network into its real-time search engine. Wowd is one of a number of real-time search startups trying to differentiate from traditional search engines like Google and Microsoft Bing. The startup makes a free application that provides a real-time tag […]

No one but Google and Verizon may know exactly what the two companies are brokering behind closed doors to meet in the middle on network neutrality, but every Google watcher worth his weight in punditry is hazarding guesses. The New York Times set the blogosphere afire last week when it said Google and Verizon are […]

Google Apps Leads Microsoft in Federal Cloud Race: 10 Reasons Why It Matters by Clint Boulton Google Apps Challenged by BPOS Google had it cozy for a few years. The company was able to lay claim to the most robust cloud computing suite in Google Apps, with Gmail; Docs for word processing, presentations and spreadsheets; […]