Clint Boulton

Viacom claimed nine new documents from its $1 billion lawsuit versus Google’s YouTube prove the video-sharing site tried to make money from copyright infringement. Viacom sued YouTube and Google for copyright infringement in March 2007, with the case winding its way through court amid a sea of confidential filings. Many of those filings became public […]

Web 2.0 Summit co-founders John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly invited the incredibly controlling and increasingly private Apple to join Internet watchers at their next show in San Francisco this November. In an open letter posted to Battelle’s Search Blog April 17, the Web pundits/publishers characterized Apple as a company that has become more reclusive, refusing […]

Last week’s report that Google is working on a tablet based on its Android mobile operating system begs the question of why the company wouldn’t release a tablet based on its Chrome Operating System. Consider what the device is meant to do. The New York Times said April 12 that Google is reportedly talking with […]

Google CFO Patrick Pichette characterized Google’s Nexus One as profitable, answering one of the nagging questions financial analysts posed soon after the device launched Jan. 5. Google offers the Android 2.1-based Nexus One unlocked through its Webstore for $529 or for $179 with a two-year contract from T-Mobile. Mobile analytics firm Flurry triggered concern about […]

Google is now ready to place ads from its clients on Apple’s successful iPad, whose availability abroad was delayed until late May because demand for the tablet exceeded Apple’s expectations. Much like Apple’s ubiquitous iPhone, the iPad uses a mobile operating system, runs mobile apps and offers a larger version of a touch screen with […]

Google April 15 introduced Google Cloud Print, a service that lets any application print to any printer from any computing device using Google’s cloud computing infrastructure. Google Cloud Print was designed as a solution for Google’s Chrome Operating System, a Web-based operating system that boots up computers in a fraction of the time it takes […]

Google April 16 improved the efficiency of its search engine by refining Google Suggest and spell correction and adding auto-correction for different languages. Google Suggest offers users queries in a pull-down menu when users begin typing in searches into the search box on Google.com. The search engine began offering localized searches by country in March […]

Google’s Gmail team added two nice features to the Webmail application April 15: Drag-and-drop attachments and calendar invites. Users can now drag-and-drop photos, documents, spreadsheets and other files from their computer to Gmail. You have to access Gmail Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox 3.6 to enjoy all of this HTML5 goodness. I dragged-and-dropped a photo, […]

Google Android Shortcomings Solved by Twitter, DoubleTwist, Rhapsody by Clint Boulton DoubleTwist Synchronizes Multimedia DoubleTwist was created as a “unifying media platform that connects consumers with all their media and all their devices, regardless of whether they are online or offline.” DoubleTwist syncs music, video and podcasts between Windows and Macs with phones, including Android […]

Verizon Wireless April 15 said it will begin selling the HTC Droid Incredible April 29 for $199 with a $100 mail-in rebate and a two-year contract. The Incredible is based on the Android 2.1 operating system and runs the 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor that impressed users of the Google Nexus One smartphone. The gadget has […]

Google April 15 reported revenues of $6.77 billion for the first quarter, a 23 percent jump from its $5.51 billion in sales from the first quarter of 2009. Google’s net income rose 37 percent to $1.96 billion on $6.06 per share from $1.42 billion on $4.49 per share from the year-ago quarter. Excluding stock-based compensation, […]

News Analysis: Twitter’s Chirp conference was only the first but it was a seminal event for a company that has traditionally shied away from sharing statistics. Those following the April 14 event learned that Twitter now has almost 106 million users, whose 55 million tweets per day harking back to March 2006 will now be […]