Clint Boulton

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 in a budding smartphone war that is still decidedly lopsided. Apple, which is geared to launch iPhone 4.0 and its iAd platform at the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference this […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs said a lot of interesting things on stage at AllThingsDigital’s D8 conference June 1, but it’s what he said about search that has pricked up the ears of some financial analysts. Jobs swatted aside a couple of search-related rumors. He asserted that Apple is not interested in going into the search […]

Microsoft said it is shutting down its 2-year-old Bing Cashback program, an effort to lure users away from Google with the promise of cash for purchases made by searching goods on Bing. July 30 is the last day Bing searchers will be able to use Cashback, said Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president for the Online […]

Responding to the growing outcry over it privacy practices, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the search engine will cede the data it accidentally collected over WiFi to regulators in Germany, France and Spain. Google May 14 acknowledged that its Street View cars, which take pictures for Google Maps, unwittingly collected 600 gigabytes’ worth of fragmented […]

10 Video Games Google Should Offer After Pac-Man by Clint Boulton Google Pac-Man Google made this playable doodle a permanent resident. Use your keyboard to eat the ghosts. Galaga Galaga is a classic fixed shooter game from Namco released in 1981. Alien invaders swoop down for the attack. You must blast them and rack up […]

There was a time when handling search for AOL was a golden money-making opportunity, but that time is 5 years-plus past. AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, who in no small point of irony was Google’s top ad sales gun in North America before he took the helm at AOL, said at the D8 conference his company […]

Dell plans to begin selling its Google Android-based Streak hybrid tablet device in the United States for $500 at the end of July. Ron Garriques, president of Dell’s Communication Solutions Group, at the D8 conference June 2 said Dell will sell the 5-inch tablet-smartphone combination unlocked through Dell.com. Garriques also implied that Dell would partner […]

Google purchased startup Invite Media June 3, sparking concerns from ad experts, who believe Google is gobbling up too much of the online display ad supply chain. AllThingsDigtal broke the news June 2 and reported the deal amount to be $70 million. Invite Media’s platform lets advertisers buy display ad space from sellers across multiple […]

Google said June 2 it will soon let users add a photo or image to the background of the Google homepage. Users will be able to pick existing photos from their PCs, their Picasa Web Albums or a public Picasa gallery. Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search products and user experience, offered this example […]

Google June 2 added biking directions and shared locations to its new Google Maps 4.2 for BlackBerry application, part of the company’s work to boost mobile app functionality across all major platforms. Google added biking directions to Google Maps in March and the company has worked hard to port these capabilities to its mobile apps. […]

Google TV is months away from launching, but it already has doubters in Apple CEO Steve Jobs and some industry analysts who believe the search engine will fail where Microsoft, Apple, Sony and several startups have failed before. When asked at the AllThingsDigital D8 conference June 1 about the failure of today’s efforts to marry […]

Google’s AdMob mobile ad unit June 2 released a software development kit to let developers insert advertisements into native iPhone OS applications on Apple’s iPad. The new SDK supports text and tile and image ads in native iPad applications. Ads targeted for iPhone OS include the iPad by default, though developers may also target iPad […]