Clint Boulton

Ford and General Motors’ OnStar unit said June 8 drivers will be able to e-mail directions from Google Maps using their mobile phones to certain motor vehicles. Ford’s Sync Traffic, Directions and Information app, a program that lets drivers access voice-activated services through their mobile phones to communicate with their vehicles, is letting users access […]

Analysts hemmed and hawed in May when the Wall Street Journal published a report quoting marquee campaigns for Apple’s iAd platform into the $1 million range, or multiples higher than the average deal for mobile advertising. That number may not be so far-fetched. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said June 7 at the Apple Worldwide Developers’ […]

Google is testing its Google Cloud Print service internally and hopes to make it available in the coming months after testing it with printer makers, company officials said June 7. The company introduced Cloud Print in April as a service that lets any application print to any printer from any computing device using Google’s cloud […]

Microsoft said it is thrilled to have its Bing search engine included for the first time as an option on Apple’s Safari Web browser on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and within the Safari browser on the Mac and PC. Apple CEO Steve Jobs made his brief endorsement that Bing would join the default engines Google […]

IBM June 8 formally anointed its free Lotus Notes Traveler Companion application with support for Apple’s iPad, allowing users of that tablet to bi-directionally synchronize their e-mail, calendar and contact information between iPad and Lotus Domino servers. Unveiled at Lotusphere in January, the IBM Lotus Notes Traveler Companion is a native iPhone OS app that […]

Google’s WiSpy incident in which its Google Maps Street View cars accidentally collected bits of users’ e-mail, browsing habits and other information from unsecured WiFi networks is continuing to get legs. As Google prepares to hand over some of the 600GB of data it collected to Germany, France and Spain, attorney generals in the United […]

As the top social network for businesses, it’s important for LinkedIn to support as many enterprise-oriented mobile phones as possible. LinkedIn June 7 released LinkedIn for BlackBerry 1.1 with support for BlackBerry Storm and Pearl devices, adding to the Bold, Tour and Curve devices the application already began supporting in March. The application lets LinkedIn […]

Yahoo June 7 began integrating Facebook across more than 15 of its sites, adding a much-needed social component to keep its 600 million users engaged and returning to its content. To this point, Yahoo offered a Facebook application on its homepage and basic share functionality throughout its media properties. Beginning this week, users of Yahoo […]

Google confirmed that its Goggles visual search application would be coming to Apple’s iPhone soon and also said it would release APIs for its image recognition, according to this scoop from ReadWriteWeb. Google Goggles is a mobile application that lets users take a picture of a location or objects such as a product or painting […]

Google Keeps Eye on BP Gulf Oil Spill with NASA Images by Clint Boulton What Happened? On April 20, an explosion rocked the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which was drilling in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast. The blast and subsequent fire killed 11 rig workers, injured 17 others and caused the drilling […]

Google Chrome Web Store Looks to Entice Developers by Clint Boulton Pichai Presents Chrome Web Store It’s hard for users to find Web applications, according to Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management for Chrome, who provided the Chrome Web Store demo at I/O. Where Art Thou Web Apps? For example, it’s hard to find […]

People who consume a lot of Web video and have been mulling whether or not to purchase an Apple iPad 3G must do it before the end of June 6 (today) to avoid paying overage when AT&T’s new data plans kick in tomorrow. Web TV startup Clicker crunched some numbers and found that AT&T’s new […]