Clint Boulton

Internet users all over the world spent 22 percent of their time on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia and other such Websites in April, according to new data from Nielsen. The research firm found social network or blog sites are visited by three-quarters of consumers who visit the Web. Moreover, the average […]

YouTube is looking for casual video editors to try out its Web-based video editing tool, a departure from video editing applications users install on their computers, such as Apple Final Cut Pro. Available in YouTube’s TestTube experimental Web page, the YouTube Video Editor lets users splice together several videos into one larger video, trim the […]

Google, Apple Mobile Ad War Makes for Engaging Drama by Clint Boulton Google Offers to Buy AdMob Google bid to buy AdMob Nov. 9, 2009, for $750 million, a move that would give Google the leading provider of ads that run in iPhone applications. Google Bites Apple What few people knew at the time was […]

A lot of people came away from watching the Google TV presentation in person at Google I/O or via YouTube May 20 confused about what the service actually was. As one of the thousands of people watching it from YouTube, I surely was. Thanks to spotty Bluetooth access, the two-hour plus presentation had too many […]

Executives from Verizon, Motorola and Google will introduce a new Motorola Droid smartphone June 23, one day before Apple’s hallowed iPhone 4 hits the streets. eWEEK received an invitation, which promises “unleashing the next generation of Droid,” to an event in New York City. Verizon CMO and Executive Vice President John Stratton, Google Android creator […]

Connecticut State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and his counterparts in about 30 states want to know whether Google broke U.S. laws by collecting data from WiFi networks. Google’s Street View vehicles, a team of cars and vans that rove streets to map out real-life views of the terrain, accidentally collected 600GB of information fragments, including […]

The Twitter outages that have plagued the microblog service for hours at a time could last into July, as Twitter engineers have discovered more issues that could trigger downtime, the company said June 15. Twitter has suffered roughly 5 hours of downtime in June thus far. People haven’t seen the famous Fail Whale so much […]

If Research In Motion is getting into the tablet market to challenge Apple’s iPad and tablets running Google’s Android operating system, it could be the enterprise tablet some folks are waiting for. RIM declined to comment on the Wall Street Journal report that said the company was “experimenting with a tablet device to serve as […]

Apple’s iPhone iOS blew all mobile operating systems away with nearly 59 percent of mobile Web consumption on iPhone and iPod Touch devices in May. But Google’s Android operating system is making some steady gains on the iPhone and other platforms. Android notched roughly a 20 percent OS share for May, followed by 10.9 percent […]

Blogger Robert Scoble is shilling for Google Buzz, that once forgotten but now found social conversation service Google launched in February. Buzz was launched fully baked. But yet not. There was no beta tag, but the service was woefully bereft of functionality. Users could use it to post links, videos and photos, but finding and […]

Twitter June 14 launched its Places geolocation feature for its desktop and mobile Website to let users tag tweets with specific places they’re posting from. The idea is to boost the context and relevance of the microblog service beyond the construct of typing 140 characters in a box. Twitter offers this example of a soccer […]

Google June 14 began launching the latest version of its Google Earth and paid professional Google Earth Pro applications, adding an integrated Web browser, support for Apple’s iPad tablet and other utilities. Downloaded by more than 700 million people around the world, Google Earth is a free desktop application that lets users search for satellite […]