Clint Boulton

Nicholas Carr, who is ratcheting up the rhetoric about how the Internet is making us stupid to support his new book, has just had an essay in that vein related to Google published by The Atlantic. Carr is disturbed by how Google Suggest, the feature in Google’s search box that provides suggestions as we type […]

Jive Software on June 14 struck deals with Google and Twitter to fortify its position versus IBM, Cisco and others in the enterprise collaboration software market. Jive makes a Social Business Software suite that blends applications for collaboration social networking and social media monitoring and other tools in one increasingly integrated palette. The company said […]

A Google software engineer tipped the company’s hand on how it plans to get its Chrome Operating System to work with legacy computer programs, The Register discovered. Google Chrome OS is the search engine’s stab at a Web-based operating system for computers, powering Web applications such as the Chrome Web browser. The platform is lightweight […]

An experiment Google is conducting on Google News includes a special section that features favorite stories culled from editors at Reuters, The Washington Post, Newsday and several other publications. That approach is a critical departure from Google’s usual math-based methodology. The Editors’ Picks section lets professional journalists-rather than the usual search algorithms-choose the stories that […]

It’s too early to gauge what sort of hit the iPad will take among enterprises and business leaders who previously believed Apple’s iPad was a dandy device for corporate road warriors. Goatse Security exploited a security hole on AT&T’s Website that enabled it to access the e-mail addresses of 114,000 owners of iPad 3G devices. […]

Google did not use any of the 600 gigabytes of data it unwittingly snatched out of the air from WiFi networks and broke no laws, the search engine wrote in a response to questions from U.S. representatives. Google May 14 revealed that its Street View cars, which take pictures for Google Maps, collected 600 gigabytes’ […]

The Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing Apple’s mobile business practices amid complaints from Google’s AdMob unit that Apple is prohibiting it from offering its advertising services on the iPhone. The Wall Street Journal said (paywall) FTC has for weeks been negotiating with the Department of Justice over which agency holds sway over the allegations by […]

Motorola’s co-CEO Sanjay Jha said the phone maker is building a new Android phone with a 2GHz processor, or double the speed of the Nexus One, HTC Droid Incredible and HTC Evo 4G smartphones currently on the market. Conceivably Tech cited comments Jha made the Executives Club in Chicago June 9, where he said the […]

Google grabbed 66.4 percent of the search engine market through May, its greatest share ever, according to adjustments made by comScore. The market researcher, whose methodology for calculating search engine metrics is being questioned by industry watchers, said that Yahoo’s search share for the month was 16.6 percent, while Bing’s share was 10.8 percent. Those […]

Google’s Tags local ad product, which the company unveiled in April as part of a transformation of its Local Business Center into Google Places, is now available nationwide with new features. Tags lets local businesses pay $25 a month to add little yellow callouts to their listings in search results on Google Maps. The tag […]

Twitter has made it clear it wants to add analytics capabilities for its eventual paid accounts, and the microblog took a step in that direction June 10 by snapping up Smallthought Systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Twitter has been using Smallthought’s Dabble DB online database for project management. But the company acquired […]

Serena Software turned heads in 2008 when it announced it would replace Microsoft Exchange with Google’s Gmail application to save upward of $750,000. That migration was completed in March 2009 and Serena was happy for a while. How a year changes things. Microsoft swooped in this year and won Serena back as a customer with […]