Clint Boulton

Google on Aug. 4 said it will no longer build Google Wave as a standalone product after the real-time collaboration platform failed to gain enough traction. The company will maintain the Google Wave site through the end of the year and apply its technology to Google projects, said Urs H??élzle, senior vice president, Operations, and […]

Google’s Android operating system appeared on 33 percent of all of the U.S. smartphones purchased in the second quarter, surpassing Research In Motion’s BlackBerry devices and Apple’s iPhone in units shipped. NPD Group’s latest research shows that RIM commanded 28 percent of the smartphones sold, with iPhone selling 22 percent for the quarter. Sales of […]

Google continues to leverage HTML5 for drag-and-drop functionality in Gmail. The Gmail team is letting Google Chrome browser users drag attachments out of e-mail messages to save them on their desktop, laptop, netbook or tablet. Users need only hover over the attachment’s download link or file icon. A tool tip surfaces inviting users to “click […]

Motorola and Verizon Wireless are teaming up to build a tablet computer based on Google’s Android operating system for TV consumption. The companies, which have enjoyed a fruitful relationship building and selling the Android-powered Droid line of smartphones, are gunning for Apple’s iPad. The iPad sold more than 3 million units in its first three […]

Google has quietly added the ability for users to sign into up to three Google accounts at the same time from the same browser, saving users the inconvenience of logging on and logging off to switch between accounts. The Google Operating System blog noted that when users go to their Google accounts Web page, they […]

Google Aug. 3 added a search history link a new search history link to help U.S. users quickly return to Websites they’ve already visited. Think of it as an easy button for accessing search history. However, it only benefits desktop and Google Android and iPhone smartphone users who have enabled search history in their Google […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation asked the Wikimedia Foundation to take down an image of the FBI seal from its popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia because it violates a U.S. law. An attorney for the Wikimedia told the FBI it’s reading of the law was “idiosyncratic” and “incorrect” and vowed to fight for the right to […]

Less than two weeks after promising to accelerate the release schedule of its stable builds for it Chrome Web browser, Google released a new version called Google Chrome Canary Build. For early adopting developers working on Chrome for Windows only, Chrome Canary can best be described as a tweener. That is, it’s a build that […]

CNET has an interesting interview with Ian Freed, Amazon vice president for the wildly popular Kindle electronic book reading device, that makes me wonder whether Google should even bother launching its Google Editions online bookstore. Freed claims Amazon commands 70 to 80 percent of the e-reader market. He doesn’t just mention it offhand, it’s more […]

Social networking on Facebook, Twitter and other Websites may dominate on the desktop, but time spent consuming e-mail rules the roost on mobile devices in the United States, according to Nielsen. A survey of 200,000 mobile Web users from June 2009 to June 2010 indicated that e-mail use ate up 41.6 percent of mobile Web […]

Social networks and online games have eclipsed Web portals such as Yahoo and e-mail in use, according to a new report from Nielsen Company titled “What Americans Do Online.” Nielsen surveyed 200,000 users from June 2009 to June 2010 and found that the amount of time users spent on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the cadre […]

Google’s Android operating system has seen more market share growth than Apple’s iPhone among smartphone subscribers over the last six months, according to new research from Nielsen. Apple’s iOS currently holds a 28 percent smartphone market share, chasing Research In Motion’s BlackBerry platform, which commands 35 percent of the market. RIM hopes to advance its […]