Clint Boulton

Google May 5 introduced what may be the most comprehensive feature set for the way users access its search engine, adding more ways for users to slice and dice queries they put to Google. These changes, which began rolling out today across 37 languages, with a mobile version available for English interfaces in the United […]

10 Reasons Microsoft Should Buy Facebook Now by Clint Boulton Microsoft Is Adrift Online Microsoft’s online business has lost billions of dollars. Its Bing search engine, the new focal point of its online endeavors, has rallied to almost 12 percent share in 11 months. But Google continues to mop the floor with all search comers, […]

Google’s Chrome team gave the beta of the new Chrome 5.0 a kind of rocket fuel injection, boosting the browser’s speed to gains of 30 percent on the V8 benchmark and 35 percent on the SunSpider benchmark over the previous channel release. As Chrome’s JavaScript engine, V8 is the piece of software Google created to […]

We Google Watchers have been writing a lot of about the alleged Google Android Tablet, the answer to Apple’s iPad “Jesus Tablet.” Now bloggers have seen it in action, thanks to Adobe, which showed off an Android tablet at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, held May 3 to 6. The images and videos (and […]

Few things rattle the cage more than government agencies overshadowing business, sticking their noses in for political prominence under the guise of ensuring fair and free competition. Yet that is exactly the position we find ourselves in with the Federal Trade Commission’s latest pressing of the screws to Google’s bid to acquire AdMob for $750 […]

Twitter made public on May 4 a way to generate embeddable tweets, allowing digital media types to drop relevant tweets into their news stories and blog posts the same way they add Scribd documents and YouTube videos to liven up their content. To date, bloggers using Twitter messages to accompany their news content have simply […]

Google will begin selling electronic books online as early as June, vying with the likes of Amazon and Apple in the effort to make money from digital content. Google will sell some of the 12 million-plus books its has scanned online through Google Editions, a Webstore geared to challenge online books offered through Amazon’s Kindle […]

Mint, the Web-based personal finance business Intel acquired in 2009, on May 3 released a free application for devices running Google’s Android operating system. Available now in the Android Market, Mint for Android helps smartphone users check their bank accounts, manage their money and monitor their credit from the road. The app is one of […]

Google’s Ventures arm introduced its team and 10 portfolio companies May 3, vowing to pump $100 million per year into enterprising new companies in the hope of turning a profit. “Rather than looking for investments that would simply be strategically useful to Google, we aim to invest in best-of-breed ventures in a wide variety of […]

Top 10 Apps from the Google Apps Marketplace By Clint Boulton Zoho CRM Any CRM lovers out there looking for an alternative to the more expensive Salesforce.com? Free for three users, and $12 per user, per month, from the fourth user on, Zoho CRM helps with sales, marketing, customer service and inventory management. Box.net Once […]

Google’s Chrome Web browser ascended to 6.7 percent market share through April, continuing its march toward double digit market share for the year. The gain, noted by market stats watchers Net Applications, comes after Google cracked 6.1 percent share through March. Chrome grabbed 5.6 percent market share through February. Microsoft Internet Explorer grabbed 59.95 percent, […]

The noose may be circling tighter around Google’s bid to buy AdMob, as the Federal Trade Commission reportedly wants to file an antitrust suit to block the $750 million deal. Google agreed to purchase AdMob last November, a move that would give Google the inside track on in-app advertising, or applications that run inside mobile […]