Clint Boulton

Google generated serious attention when it landed the city of Los Angeles as a paying customer for Google Apps for 34,000 municipal employees. Many people may not know the company also targets schools and universities with its collaboration suite in the cloud. Some 3,000 schools, from Arizona State University out west to east coast Ivy […]

Google has optimized its popular Place Pages, a feature that surfaces details about landmark locations and local businesses when users search Google Maps, for Apple iPhone and Google Android smartphones. I covered Place Pages quite a bit last week, coinciding with the rebranding of Google Local Business Center, which small businesses may use to shape […]

Apple has acquired startup Siri, whose virtual personal assistant application lets users of the Apple iPhone 3GS book restaurant tables, buy movie tickets and perform several other tasks all by speaking into their device. Blogger Robert Scoble unearthed the buy from this April 27 filing with the Federal Trade Commission, which provides no additional information […]

Google’s Android director has confirmed that Android 2.2, the forthcoming version of the company’s operating system for smartphones, tablets and netbooks, will support Adobe’s Flash technology at launch. Flash is the industry standard for multimedia on the Web. Apple has staunchly refused to support the technology for both its popular iPhone and new iPad tablet […]

Google April 27 agreed to purchase game software maker LabPixies in a move to fortify its popular iGoogle personalized homepage, which now boasts more than 100,000 gadgets. LabPixies makes widgets for gaming, task and other smallish programs, which users can install on their iGoogle pages with a single click to kill some time. The startup, […]

Mozilla has ported the company’s “Fennec” mobile browser to smartphones based on Google Android, opening another avenue of opportunity for programmers writing applications for the open-source operating system. However, Mozilla developer Vladimir Vukicevic warned on his blog April 27 that the build should be considered “prealpha,” has bugs that could force users to reboot their […]

Google April 26 integrated Google Earth into Google Maps, providing an Earth view to Maps as a different way of looking at the world on the Web. Hundreds of millions of people use Google Maps to get directions for driving, bicycling and walking to destinations, check traffic patterns, see street-level views and gather other directional […]

If you’re a true Google watcher, by now you’ve seen the news that Google nixed its agreement to put its Nexus One smartphone on Verizon Wireless’ network of 90 million-plus users. This clearly deals a blow to Google’s hopes for expanding the device, which it sells solely through its Webstore. So now the only major […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-Research In Motion President and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis met analysts’ expectations April 27 by unveiling the BlackBerry 6 operating system and a new Web browser fueled by WebKit, the same open-source platform on which Google’s Android OS is based. The executive, speaking at RIM’s Wireless Enterprise Symposium here, also said there are more than […]

RIM BlackBerry 6 OS, Browser Debut at WES by Clint Boulton Lazaridis Enters RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis took the stage around 8:45 a.m. and rattled off a number of impressive stats: 10.5 million devices sold last quarter and 37 million BlackBerry smartphones in 2009, with the BlackBerry community cracking the 41-million-user mark. Lazaridis Winds Up […]

Google has canceled its plans to let Verizon Wireless service its Google Nexus One smartphone, a move that could hurt sales of the first device to offer the Google Android 2.1 operating system. Google launched the Nexus One Jan. 5, selling it solely through its online Webstore unlocked for $529 or $179 with a two-year […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-Research In Motion April 26 unveiled the BlackBerry Bold 9650 smartphone and the petite BlackBerry Pearl 3G handset, both geared to help the enterprise phone maker expand its smartphone lead in North America. Unveiled at RIM’s Wireless Enterprise Symposium here, the Bold 9650 offers built-in GPS and WiFi and includes a full QWERTY keyboard […]