Clint Boulton

Twitter May 19 released its Twitter for iPhone and iPod touch application, the microblog’s third major mobile app since it launched Twitter for BlackBerry and Twitter for Android applications. Twitter for iPhone and iPod touch is available for free now here on the iTunes App Store. The app lets users search all tweets and find […]

Google TV will merge the TV-watching experience with surfing the Web, an ambitious move that follows where Apple, Microsoft and others have failed to find great traction. Unveiled at the Google I/O developer conference May 20, Google TV is based on the Android 2.1 mobile operating system and uses Google’s Chrome Web browser with support […]

Google May 20 launched Android 2.2 at its Google I/O developer conference, bringing Adobe Flash 10.1, greater performance and enterprise capabilities to a mobile operating system the company claims is now being activated on 100,000 devices per day. Designed to add a jolt of processing speed for future smartphones, tablet computers and set-top boxes, Android […]

Google opened up Google Wave to everyone at the Google I/O show in San Francisco May 19, a fitting gesture for the real-time collaboration platform the company launched to great interest at the same event one year ago. Google Wave is one big mashup of e-mail, instant messaging, photo and video-sharing combined with real-time text […]

Google May 19 introduced the Chrome Web Store to make it easier for users to browse and download the thousands of free and paid Web apps on the market. The store will enable the roughly 70 million users of the Google Chrome Web browser to not only find Web apps, but create shortcuts in Chrome […]

Yahoo, which has been working to reposition itself as a media content portal under CEO Carol Bartz, has agreed to purchase Associated Content. Yahoo expects to close the deal in the third quarter, and while it declined to disclose a purchase price, some reports peg the buy at $100 million. Associated Content is a crowd-sourced, […]

Facebook May 18 launched 0.facebook.com, a new mobile version of the social network that is built for speed and supported by more than 50 mobile operators with no data charges for consumers. “When using the mobile Internet, people around the world face two main challenges — sometimes the experience is too slow to be fun […]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Reuters May 18 that Google will contest the U.S. government “very hard” if regulators block its $750 million bid for mobile ad firm AdMob. Schmidt said AdMob had been left at a “significant disadvantage” in competing with Apple. It’s actually Google that has been left at the altar in a […]

Google’s Gmail team May 18 launched a new Gmail API to let programs in the Google Apps Marketplace put more relevant info right into Gmail messages with contextual gadgets. The Marketplace is an online store selling usiness applications that integrate with and extend Google Apps. Contextual gadgets display previews of content from other apps, including […]

YouTube Dishes Up Stats, Playlists for Fifth Birthday Bash by Clint Boulton YouTube Turns 5 Logo YouTube offers this doodle logo for its fifth birthday. Timeline: The Rise of YouTube This timeline charts the rapid rise of YouTube, which Google acquired in 2006. 2005: YouTube Launches Site Beta YouTube was organized in 2005, formally launching […]

General Motors May 18 said it is adding navigation features for its Chevrolet Volt application that help users track their vehicles using cars on Google Maps and search for destinations on Android smartphones. GM unveiled its Android smartphone mobile app for the Chevy Volt at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in January, promising to launch […]

Google continues to be under siege by regulators in Europe for accidentally scooping citizens’ data from WiFi networks, with the European Union’s justice commissioner claiming the company doesn’t respect its rules. The search engine May 14 admitted that its Street View Cars, which shoot pictures of streets and locales all over the world as a […]