Clint Boulton

Google July 12 launched App Inventor for Android, a tool people without programming knowledge can use to build applications for smartphones based on the company’s open-source Android platform. While Android was designed for software programmers who speak geek, App Inventor is a sort of software Lego set for amateur programmers who can sign up to […]

Google is constantly experimenting with online advertisements, trying video, mobile and other types of ads in an effort to attract consumers’ eyeballs as they make their way around the Web. Google CEO Eric Schmidt told media at the Allen & Co. summit that the company is experimenting with interactive video ads as a break from […]

Facebook takes some heat from Google and others in the social networking community for being a walled garden, keeping the information users share within its friendly confines close to the vest. But most of the software infrastructure that supports Facebook activities is in fact open source, free for programmers to adopt, customize and use. Google, […]

Microsoft Bing News Beckons Google News Haters by Clint Boulton Bing News Hate the Google News? The new Bing News Webpage lets users localize their news based on their location. Location-based Web services have become table stakes in the Web economy today. Latest News Bing lets users sort either by most recent or look to […]

Spending on mobile display ads in the United States is around $313 million today, but this will almost quadruple to exceed $1.2 billion in 2015, according to ABI Research. That means there will be a lot of dollars to be earned advertising on Apple’s iPhone and iPad and smartphones and tablets based on Google’s Android […]

Yahoo said it has seen a seven times boost in visits from owners of Apple’s popular iPad tablet computer, which has sold more than 3 million units in less than three months. Yahoo gauged the first wave of iPad users who accessed Yahoo content in May and found they skewed mostly male and affluent. Now […]

Google has created an experimental Android application called Open Spot to help drivers find parking spots, a cool tool for time-constrained people who have neither the time nor inclination to troll for empty spots. Launched from Google Labs July 9, Open Spot will show drivers parking spots located within a 0.9-mile radius of their location, […]

Twitter July 6 dipped its beak into selling goods over the Internet with @earlybird Exclusive Offers, which lets advertisers promote deals and events on Twitter’s new @earlybird account. The microblog, which launched Promoted Tweets to help advertisers such as Disney/Pixar spread their marketing messages, is now retweeting offers advertisers have created solely for Twitter. The […]

In another move to boost content creation, Google’s YouTube Website July 9 said it is pumping $5 million into a program to spur the creation of high-quality videos millions of people will want to watch. YouTube Partner Grants is intended to give promising video producers with little or no budgets a springboard to put out […]

Google Me Social Network Wont Make Facebook Flinch by Clint Boulton Facebook Is Really, Really Big At nearly 500 million users, Facebook is to social networks what Google is to search. Bing spent a year trying to gain traction versus Google and instead took share from Yahoo. Google Me, as a new service, would have […]

Google July 8 said it has officially removed all hardware and software used to corral WiFi data in its Street View cars, which have resumed their tours of Sweden, Ireland, Norway and South Africa. Google grounded its entire fleet of Street View cars-which collect real-life footage of city streets in countries all over the world-in […]

Google may be rewriting the playbook for Facebook, if a fat slide deck traversing the Web is an accurate template of what the search engine has in store for its alleged Facebook killer Google Me. In late June, news trickled out via Twitter tweet from Digg CEO Kevin Rose that Google was working on Google […]