Clint Boulton

Google April 7 made Google Earth available for the Motorola Droid, allowing users of that phone from Verizon Wireless to access the same quality of 3D images and terrain they can access from the desktop version of the application. Google first launched Google Earth for the Nexus One, which is based on the Android 2.1 […]

The Google Apps Marketplace turns one month old April 9 and Google is expected to release some usage statistics to show how successful the platform has been to date. Google launched the Google Apps Marketplace March 9 as a way to let third-party software developers sell applications that integrate with Google Apps, including Google Docs, […]

Social media use by the government got a boost April 7 as the Office of Management and Budget said agencies don’t need its approval before using technologies such as Facebook and Twitter to communicate with the public. The OMB in a memo described how the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), which requires federal agencies to get […]

Google’s protracted struggles with copyright holders continue, as the American Society of Media Photographers and other photographic artist groups and individuals banded together to file a class action copyright infringement suit against Google. ASMP, the Graphic Artists Guild, the Picture Archive Council of America, the North American Nature Photography Association, the Professional Photographers of America […]

Apple’s iPad and rival touch-screen computers will be popular among consumers, but expect fewer than 10 percent of PCs sold to enterprises in 2015 for mainstream knowledge workers to have touch screens, according to research from Gartner. Tablets will have slower uptake in the enterprise thanks to heavy requirements for typing and text input, Gartner […]

Regulatory pressure on Google’s $750 million acquisition bid for AdMob is mounting after a U.S. senator raised questions about the proposal in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission. Sen. Herb Kohl, chairman for the subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights, wrote that the deal raises concerns about competition that need to scrutinized […]

Despite efforts to patch up privacy holes, Google Buzz continues to gain the wrong type of attention for Google. A New York man is suing the search engine for violating his privacy by exposing his Gmail contacts to the public without his consent. Google Buzz, launched Feb. 9, lets users post comments, links, photos and […]

There is something to be said for taking what is normally complex enterprise software and breaking it down to be something so simple as to be created in a few minutes on an average laptop and accessed via a massive parallel computing system. That’s exactly what happened when I caught up with Nitin Mangtani, senior […]

10 Challenges that Threaten Google’s Dominance by Clint Boulton Microsoft Bing, Cloud Strategy Threaten Google At 11.5 percent market share, you may not consider Bing much of a threat to Google’s search plot. But part of why Microsoft has been weaker than Google in search has been its failure to scale search queries. This is […]

Google’s Chrome Web browser commanded 6.1 percent market share through March 2010 and is on track to grow to double digits by the end of the year, according to data from Net Applications. The gain comes after Chrome grabbed 5.6 percent market share through February, according to the researcher. Chrome’s latest gains may have come […]

Microsoft vs. Google: Tech Giants Turf War Heats Up by Clint Boulton Asymmetric Warfare Google engages in asymmetric warfare with Microsoft, Apple and others. Thanks to its free but ad-supported cloud services such as Google Apps, “Google can spend $1 on Gmail for enterprises and force others like Microsoft, IBM or Cisco to spend tens […]

Google, Hewlett-Packard and General Electric are among the 47 companies and organizations asking President Obama to grant people the power to “monitor and manage their energy consumption … via their computers, phones or other [Web-enabled] devices.” Google and its fellows urged the president in an April 5 letter to facilitate a smart grid that would […]