Clint Boulton

Google said it has rewritten the code for Google Docs, using a new JavaScript layout engine and leaning heavily on HTML5 to improve and speed up the document, drawing and spreadsheet editors in Docs. The company, which unveiled the upgrades at the company’s Atmosphere cloud computing event at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters April 12, […]

Google April 9 confirmed what it hinted at last year when it began using site speed as one of the 200-plus signals the search engine uses to decide search rankings. Site speed reflects how quickly a Website responds to Web requests. Over the last decade or so, Google has made speed the No. 1 criteria […]

Google Apri1 12 confirmed that it has purchased mobile search startup Plink for an undisclosed sum, marking the latest in a series of acquisitions the search engine has made to augment its Web services offerings. Plink’s first application, PlinkArt, lets users identify paintings by snapping photos of them with their smartphones. When PlinkArt’s recognizes a […]

Twitter’s platform director April 11 moved to assure programmers who write applications for the Twitter platform that the microblog is not trying cut off their lifelines by buying some Twitter tools that would make it impossible for others to compete. Fred Wilson, a Twitter investor from Union Square Ventures, wrote on his blog April 7 […]

One of my favorite angles in the blooming Apple versus Google war is the rumor/theory that Apple could jettison Google as the default search engine on its iPhone. That rumor, which started in earnest back in January when BusinessWeek cited sources saying Apple was mulling moving to Bing on iPhone, has new life in the […]

Apple and Google Android will grab 75 percent of the tablet market through 2010, as the iPad’s immediate success has proven the consumer market is hungry for tablet computers, according to IMS Research. IMS projects Apple will capture 51 percent of a tablet market that could be worth $3.6 billion through 2010, which leaves plenty […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced many things during the company’s iPhone 4.0 media briefing April 8, but none more dangerous to Google’s designs for the mobile Web market than iAd. Rolling out this summer in iPhone 4.0, iAd is a platform that constitutes Apple’s reimagining of advertising on smartphones. While Google has extended the keyword […]

Twitter April 9 said it purchased Atebits, maker of a popular iPhone application for the microblogging platform, in a move that underscores the value of mobile apps. The purchase, unveiled the same day Research In Motion launched the public beta of a Twitter for BlackBerry application, curiously came two days after a Twitter board member […]

Anyone looking for Google to publicly complain about the ruling that limits the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to tell network operators how to manage their networks shouldn’t hold their breath. The Open Internet Coalition is speaking for the search engine giant. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled April 6 […]

Microsoft’s Bing search engine commanded nearly 11.7 percent of U.S. searches in March, up from 11.5 percent share in February, according to the latest comScore figures. Google’s leading search share slipped to 65.1 percent through March from 65.5 percent in February, the market researcher said. Yahoo notched 16.89 percent searches in March, up slightly from […]

Google is taking another big step in its enterprise growth by convening a one-day cloud computing summit April 12. Google’s Atmosphere 2010 event is intended for CIOs, the decision makers who must choose whether to leave the legacy comforts of on-premises software installed on corporate servers to procure applications hosted by vendors such as Google […]

Google has made Ocean in Google Earth part of the default set of annotations for all Google Earth users to see, a little pre-Earth Day welcoming party. Launched in February 2009, Ocean in Google Earth pairs 3D maps of the world’s oceans with videos, photos and narrative from heavy-hitting scientists and media sources. Google worked […]