Clint Boulton

Why Lack of a Verizon iPhone Is Hurting Apple by Clint Boulton Apple iPhone Prospers on AT&T, But Lost Verizon Opportunity Nielsen claims Apple’s iPhone smartphone market share was 28 percent through the first quarter of 2010, more than tripling the 9 percent share garnered by Google’s Android platform. That’s all from Apple’s relationship with […]

Google June 9 began trying to nudge its users to install photos as backgrounds for their Google homepages by featuring popular images on Google.com for 24 hours. Users were so annoyed, Google turned off by the custom homepage, which tells you how the service is being received from the start. Marissa Mayer, VP of search […]

Microsoft’s Bing team moves to make its search engine more social by rolling up Twitter tweets and status updates and shared links from Facebook fan pages into a new Website called Bing Social. Bing began indexing tweets sparingly last July, but kicked it up with the launch of its Bing Twitter Website last October at […]

Social networking and other popular applications will be key drivers for Google TV, which will be just one of many new “smart TV” consumer products to hit shelves, according to an Intel executive. Google TV uses the Google Android operating system to support TV content and Web applications accessed through a Chrome browser and remote […]

Google Gmail Tips to Boost Your Business by Clint Boulton Gmail Settings Gmail business users can make the most of the following changes through their Gmail Settings tab at the top right of their Gmail account. When users opt to change a setting, they simply click the enable box and click save changes at the […]

Google wants the U.S. and European governments to nudge China to cease its censorship of the Internet, the search engine’s lead lawyer told the Associated Press in Brussels. David Drummond, chief legal officer and senior vice president of corporate development at Google, June 9 said that China’s censorship restricts free trade for the Web, where […]

The creator of Google’s AdMob unit lashed out at Apple for preventing application programmers from using AdMob and Google’s mobile display ad technology on the iPhone and IPad. Apple ignited the fire June 7 by revising developer terms for its iPhone and iPad operating system to prohibit applications from collecting data without users’ consent and […]

Twitter June 8 said it is internally testing a way to let people shorten Web links to share with others, a key move for a microblog service that caps posts users publish to 140 characters. The microblog service, which in March began routing links within direct messages through its link service to curb the spread […]

Google unleashed its Caffeine Web indexing system June 8, promising 50 percent fresher search results from its last index and more content than ever. Caffeine comes after 10 months of rigorous testing, first within Google, then within a single data center before being rolled out across all of Google’s data centers. The reason for this […]

Do a search on terms such as “BP” “Deepwater Horizon” and “oil spill” on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Bing these days and you’re bound to see a sponsored link to BP Plc’s Gulf of Mexico response Website. The company that unleashed the worst oil spill in U.S. history in the Gulf of Mexico has purchased […]

Google June 8 expanded the scope of its Google Maps Navigation and Google Search by Voice features in an effort to gain a larger audience for those programs on smartphones. The Google Maps Navigation 4.2 turn-by-turn GPS feature is now available for Android smartphones 1.6 and later in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, […]

For the 1 million users who are still using Google Wave more than a year since it was created, Google is making it easier for users to grab content from the Web into a wave. Users previously had to cut and paste Web info into a wave. WaveThis is a button, bookmarklet and Chrome extension […]