Clint Boulton

Yahoo Japan has chosen Google to power search and search advertising on its portal, a blow against Yahoo at a time when the Web company has ceded its own search platform to Microsoft. The largest Web portal in Japan, Yahoo Japan is a subsidiary of cell phone and Internet service provider Softbank, which has a […]

In a move geared to please Android developers, Google July 27 said it has created a free licensing service to protect paid applications in the Android Market from unauthorized use. The move will prevent tech-savvy users from downloading for-fee applications on the Android Market, which has some 70,000 free and paid programs. The service includes […]

Google July 26 pushed out Google Maps for Android 4.4 with a dedicated icon to let users look up nearby places and choose a location from Google Maps’ Place Pages. The new Places icon appears in the app launcher for Android phone users, who may press, hold down and drag it onto their home screen […]

Google July 26 launched Google Apps for Government and earned a key security credit that makes its collaboration software for the cloud viable for federal agencies. Google Apps for Government includes all of the applications in the company’s Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) suite, including Gmail, Google Docs and Postini security services. The suite, which […]

Apple’s smash-hit iPad tablet computer is forcing analysts to break free from their conservative estimates. Days after Apple officials claimed they had sold 3.27 million iPads in the quarter ending June 26, Forrester Research analyst Sara Rotman Epps called her previous forecast for tablet computers in the United States conservative and vowed to update her […]

Google’s Android team indicated it is preparing to allow consumers to purchase applications from the Android Market and charge them to their wireless phone bills, a major convenience that bridges the gap between the application store and phone service providers. Android developer evangelist Tim Bray wrote in a brief blog post July 23 that Google […]

Google Apps has met security requirements to qualify it for use by the General Services Administration, a big coup as the company seeks to fend off Microsoft’s increasing encroachment on its collaboration software in the cloud business. Funny how the market has flipped. Three years ago, Google was viewed as the challenger to Microsoft’s on-premise […]

The Droid X is becoming tougher to get than was anticipated by its maker, Motorola, or its carrier, Verizon Wireless; availability isn’t expected until Aug. 4. And don’t expect to walk into a Verizon store off the street and leave with one. Gleacher and Co. analyst Mark McKechnie said calls to Verizon stores last week-the […]

Despite the invitations to play Farmville, Mafia Wars and other “social games” on Facebook, I have stubbornly resisted joining. I don’t play games on Facebook but it’s not because I have anything against Zynga, which by all accounts makes great social online games. I don’t play video games period, pretty much not since I was […]

Google’s Android 2.2 operating system is geared toward catching the eye of more businesses. While it won’t be confused with the lock-down cachet of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry platform, it does boast some solid enterprise capabilities. Unveiled at Google I/O in May and released to open source June 23, Android 2.2 offers policy management APIs […]

Google July 22 moved to accelerate calls placed on Android and Blackberry smartphones through its Google Voice for mobile application, the latest in a string of changes the company has made to its phone management tool. Google Voice is a free Web calling and phone management application. The program, which is used by more than […]

The Facebook Effect: How the Social Network Touched 500M Users by Clint Boulton Zuckerberg Speaks Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thanks Facebook users for using his Website in this video. Sort Stories by Location Mouse over the dots on the Microsoft Bing Map to see how many stories were submitted and from where. The more “likes” […]