Clint Boulton

ORLANDO, Fla. — Research In Motion Limited April 26 introduced Wi-Fi support to its new BlackBerry Mobile Voice System 5, allowing enterprise workers to use their landline phone number and extension from their BlackBerry smartphone. MVS 5, which RIM unveiled at its Wireless Enterprise Symposium here, will let corporate workers make and receive phone calls […]

BlackBerry Bold 9650, Pearl 3G Devices Fuel RIM’s WES by Clint Boulton The BlackBerry Bold 9650 Smartphone Mike McAndrews, vice president of product marketing at RIM, showed the quick and dirty details of the BlackBerry Bold 9650 gadget for media. The other big news was that Bold is replacing the Tour as the main high-end […]

Google April 20 retooled its Local Business Center as Google Places to better emphasize the connection of businesses to Place Pages. Place Pages are Web pages that pop up on Google Maps and Google.com when users search for local businesses and click the “more info” button. Through Google Places, businesses can add and edit information […]

If Google is nervous about Microsoft’s latest integration with Facebook on Web-based documents, it isn’t showing it and analysts are torn on whether the company has cause for concern. Microsoft and Facebook April 21 unveiled an application called Docs that lets Facebook users create and share Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents and share them with […]

Twitter, which has struggled with scale as its user base exploded to hit 105 million users, purchased startup Cloudhopper for an undisclosed sum April 23. A Twitter partner for the last eight months, Cloudhopper provides messaging software and infrastructure that helps Twitter connect with mobile carriers all over the world with little latency and downtime. […]

Analysts are bullish on Research In Motion’s upcoming Wireless Enterprise Symposium, where the company is expected to unveil OS 6.0 for its BlackBerry smartphones, browser demos and updates on upcoming smartphones such as the BlackBerry 9670. RIM is the leading smartphone maker, with 42 percent of the market, followed by Apple’s iPhone at 25 percent […]

Google April 22 extended its Suggest feature for Google Maps to 10 more domains and eight additional languages, part of the company’s plan to make its search smarter for users. Google Suggest for Maps displays relevant search suggestions for places, businesses (with addresses) and points of interest as users type. As of today, this feature […]

Google Maps Navigation, the free turn-by-turn GPS app, isn’t a shoe-in to appear on Apple’s iPhone despite recent blog reports. According to MacUser: “The navigation system is available as a free update to Google Maps on Android phones, but won’t stop there. Google confirmed at a London press conference that it plans to bring free […]

Facebook April 21 launched its most ambitious social Web effort, offering software tools with partners that one analyst said would help Facebook colonize the Web. The three key components of the news were social plug-ins, Open Graph and Graph API. In the 48 hours since CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched the tools at the F8 developer […]

News Analysis: In its most aggressive position against Google yet, Consumer Watchdog April 21 asked the U.S. Department of Justice to sue the search engine and suggested the government agency could break up Google into several companies. Consumer Watchdog advocate John M. Simpson argued that the government must go beyond opposing Google’s attempts to grow […]

Yesterday, I published this brief piece about Google’s acquisition of a startup called Agnilux. Little is known about the stealth company, whose founders created the A4 chip Apple uses in its iPad, before leaving for smaller pastures. These founders, according to the New York Times, joined Apple by way of PA Semi and left unhappy. […]

Governments for the United States and Brazil combined to issue more than 7,000 data requests and 400 requests for content removal from Google from July 2009 to December 2009, according to a new tool from the search engine. Google issued its Government Requests tool April 20 to provide transparency around the requests for data and […]