Clint Boulton

Against the backdrop of poor payment options and rampant spam, Android’s application store, as holy as it is in its open sourceness, is apparently ripe for exploitation. Mobile security company Lookout studied the Android Market and found a wallpaper application called Jackeey Wallpaper that sends user information to the Website www.imnet.us in Shenzhen, China. Jackeey […]

YouTube, looking to make room for the 24 hours-plus of video uploaded to its Website every minute, has boosted its upload limit to 15 minutes from 10 minutes. In extending the minute limit for user-generated broadcasts, the Google-owned concern is meeting the No. 1 request of its amateur video makers. Many of these self-made auteurs […]

While statisticians love to compare how many people are using the iPhone versus Android, BlackBerry and other smartphones, a new study shows that Verizon Wireless smartphones are churning through 25 percent more data than the iPhone on AT&T. Validas, which analyzed more than 20,000 consumer wireless bills dated between January and May 2010, found that […]

Facebook is taking on question-and-answer search services such as Quora, Google’s Aardvark and Hunch with a new application that aims to test the knowledge of the 500 million-plus members of the social network. Launched in beta July 28 to a limited number of people, Facebook Questions lets users pose any kind of query to anyone […]

Google Must Embrace Travel, Gaming: 10 Reasons Why by Clint Boulton Search Is Slowing Google isn’t losing search share, but it’s been mired at around 65 to 66 percent for ages. That’s a fantastic fortress, and it may be unassailable. But Google can’t take that chance, especially with growing competition from Microsoft Bing and the […]

This Google gaming and social network story is really boiling over. In the last month, Digg’s Kevin Rose tweeted that Google has a social network in the works, an assertion backed up Quora’s Adam D’Angelo and possibly by this document. In mid-July, TechCrunch said Google had invested $100 million in social gaming platform Zynga and […]

Google Android Cruz Reader, Tablet Coming from Velocity Micro by Clint Boulton Cruz Reader Slated for an August launch, the Cruz Reader measures 7.55 inches by 5.6 inches by 0.57 inches with a 800-by-600 resolution, 4GB of memory, a USB port and an SD slot for $199. 256MB of RAM and built-in storage are also […]

Some 1,000 voters indicated that while the majority of users are concerned about Google’s collection of citizens’ computer data from wireless networks, they stick with Google because it meets their needs for search and other Web applications. Google said May 14 that its Street View cars, which roam Earth’s streets to collect ground-level footage for […]

The snarky marketers at Verizon Wireless have come up with a new potshot to make fun of Apple’s iPhone 4 antenna issue and boost the already popular Motorola Droid X in the same advertisement. Droid Life said a new full-page ad for the Droid X will appear in major newspapers July 29, nearly two weeks […]

Microsoft’s lead attorney railed against Google’s deal to power search for Yahoo Japan, and Google was only to happy to respectfully disagree in a war of words. Yahoo Japan, a Softbank subsidiary of which Yahoo has a 35 percent stake, July 27 selected Google as its provider for search and search ad technology. The arrangement, […]

Google App Inventor: 10 Apps We Want to See Pronto by Clint Boulton Weight Calculator OK, everyone smirked when Larry Page and Sergey Brin waxed ecstatic about the accelerometer built into Android smartphones. How about a scale? Who wouldn’t want to check their body mass by simply holding their cell phone, or speaking into it […]

I recently received a lightning bolt e-mail response to my eWEEK story from April 4, in which I explored the idea that Google could create some search application specifically to shield its App Store applications for the iPhone and iPad from Google’s search index. One anonymous reader wrote July 24: “I work at apple, all […]