Clint Boulton

Google April 14 followed up its tweet archive at Twitter’s first Chirp conference with Google Follow Finder, a Twitter user locator based on Twitter’s new @anywhere API. This Google Labs tool lets users enter their Twitter user name or that of another Twitter user in a search box and receive suggestions of people to follow. […]

Google April 14 added the ability for users to replay Twitter tweets from any point in time on its search results pages, the company’s latest effort to improve the relevancy of its search results for users. Google began including Twitter tweets in its search results pages back in December, adding real-time content such as MySpace […]

Google April 13 said Apple’s App Store has approved its Google Mobile App for Apple’s iPad, which has sold more than 500,000 units since going on sale April 3. This “iPad-friendly version” of Google Mobile App, available from the iTunes store here, displays content on the iPad’s screen without cutting off or chopping up the […]

Lost in the gloss of Google Docs’ latest challenge to Microsoft Office was the fact that the word processing, spreadsheet and presentation apps have been optimized for smartphones. Google April 12 unleashed a major upgrade to its Google Docs editors, rewriting the apps’ code with HTML5 and accelerating the apps to improve the user experience. […]

Industry analysts expect a strong first quarter from Internet bellwether Google despite government challenges in the United States and abroad and competition from Apple and Facebook. Google will report first-quarter earnings after the market closes April 15. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters said they believe Google will report $6.57 in earnings per share on sales […]

Google Android Fragmentation Threatens to Choke Platform Growth by Clint Boulton Android Everywhere Android’s rapid-fire development cycle has yielded Android versions 1.5, 1.6, 2.0 and 2.1. Manufacturers have shipped on more than 6 million Android handsets in 2009 and is forecast to ship on more than 20 million in 2010, according to IMS Research. Google […]

Used to be we clicked buttons to share to del.icio.us and Digg. Then we shared with Facebook and retweeted with special Twitter buttons such as TweetMeme, which is still my favorite. Google April 13 added a Google Buzz button, proving that it has gotten serious about letting publishers share Buzz users’ links to interesting news […]

Updated: Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been a busy man on the meet and greet circuit, first chatting up old-line media in Washington before crossing the country to appear at Google’s Atmosphere cloud computing event for CIOs in Mountain View, Calif. Schmidt addressed the American Society of News Editors April 11 in D.C., telling them: […]

Twitter April 13 introduced Promoted Tweets, the company’s first stab at a formal plan to make money by attaching ads to the millions of tweets that stream through the microblog each day. Twitter lets some 70 million users post short, 140-character messages that surface on the Website in real time. Twitter has made several technology […]

Gadget blogs continue to ferret out information on forthcoming devices based on Google’s Android smartphone. The latest find is another list of specifications of the Android 2.1-based HTC Incredible smartphone, which Verizon Wireless is reportedly preparing to offer to consumers later this month. Boy Genius Report offers this equipment specification sheet with the Verizon logo […]

With Apple shipping more than 450,000 unit of its iPad tablet in less than a week, the way has been cleared for platform providers such as Google and Microsoft and computer makers such as HP to begin offering their wares in earnest. The New York Times reported April 12 that Google is mulling the notion […]

Google Docs Refresh Aims to Steal Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes Users by Clint Boulton Moving into the Future Google Docs is moving into the future with this release, away from inefficient editing processes and into real-time collaboration for multiple users. Google Claims Break from Individual Authoring Microsoft Office was created for individual authoring, not collaboration, […]