Clint Boulton

Apple has updated its iTunes privacy policy to let users opt out of its iAd platform, which launches July 1 to help iPhone and iPad developers make money from the 225,000 applications they’ve lodged in Apple’s App Store. Timed for the launch of the vaunted iPhone 4, iAd lets developers insert advertisements within their applications. […]

No surprise that Microsoft’s Bing team should focus on the entertainment vertical by hosting a star-studded news event in Los Angeles hosted by Ryan Seacrest. Changes include moving Quick Tabs from the left-hand rail to under the “answer bar” (this is the search box) atop the Bing Website: But the big news is the launch […]

Google June 22 released Google Maps for Android 4.3 with a few features to help owners of Android 1.6 and later devices more quickly decide where to go and what to do. First, Google boosted user reviews in the application by providing a snapshot of what consumers are saying about businesses on search result pages. […]

First Look: Motorola Droid X Challenges iPhone 4 as Multimedia Workhorse by Clint Boulton Before the Show Begins If you like the “Droid Does” slogan as the calling card for the $100 million Droid marketing campaign, you’ll probably like this sign. Let’s see how well this “Droid Does Next” slogan works in the market. Droid […]

When I watched Google launch Google Buzz in a Webcast last February, I confess I did so with mixed feelings. It was good to see Google do something more serviceable in the social Web, even if it did make Gmail an open social graph and breach privacy etiquette. But it also felt like a me, […]

Google June 22 made its Google Voice application available to anyone who wants to use it, capping one year of gradual rollouts that began with select invitees, then to military personnel and students. Google Voice is a Web calling and phone management application. The program, which is used by more than 1.4 million people in […]

Google grabbed 72.17 percent of U.S. search market in May, up from 71.4 percent in April for almost a 1 percent gain, according to new stats from HitWise. Google’s gain came at the expense of Yahoo and Microsoft Bing. Yahoo dropped from 14.96 percent in April to 14.43 percent in May, while Bing fell from […]

Brightcove, who seeks to put its Web-based video platform anywhere businesses require it, released a software development kit for smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system June 22. The Brightcove App SDK for Android is accompanies by new mobile templates for Adobe Flash Player 10.1, which launched with support for Android 2.2 devices in the […]

LinkedIn began rolling out several changes to its Groups service June 22 that improve the social conversation quotient for the professional social network. Groups lets LinkedIn’s 70 million users join a smaller network of contacts within LinkedIn. Users can click the Groups tab at the top of the LinkedIn homepage and click the Groups Directory […]

10 Reasons Why Google Wont Beat Microsoft in Cloud Collaboration by Clint Boulton Microsoft Is Big, Getting Bigger When was the last time you saw a study that said Microsoft’s market share was declining? Microsoft has a $17 billion a year Office business and 500 million seats for that suite. Microsoft SharePoint is a $1 […]

Google, whose relationships between its applications and how they run on rival Apple’s popular consumer electronics devices is often scrutinized, has altered its Gmail for iPad app to provide a full-screen compose view. When Google originally unveiled the app in April, iPad owners who wanted to access their Gmail accounts from the tablet were dismayed […]

Connecticut State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said June 21 that his office will lead a multistate investigation into Google’s accidental collection of data from unsecure wireless networks. In the latest in a series of actions against the company for accidentally sucking up users’ e-mails, passwords and Web browsing data, Blumenthal will lead the charge for […]