Clint Boulton

You can bet that any time a company such as Google announces anything having to do with its privacy, it’s going to cause privacy advocates to bare their teeth. That is exactly what I imagine will happen once certain privacy watchdogs in Washington, D.C., California and perhaps even in Europe read Google’s latest appeal to […]

Microsoft’s Bing will indeed gouge Google if Apple taps it to replace Google as the default search engine for its iPhone, according to a study by online ad network Chitika, which found that Google searches account for 50.5 percent of all Internet traffic on the iPhone. Chitika Research Director Daniel Ruby called this a “stunning […]

Google Jan. 27 said it is taking its Google Social Search project to make search more relevant and injecting it into its core search engine with new features, a move to challenge Facebook’s social network dominance. Google Social Search drops content from searchers’ contacts directly into search results. The service requires users to have a […]

I’ve commented here how Google likes to weave features from its dozens of applications into one another. The idea is to provide a seamless experience. To that end, it’s useful for anyone trying to grok Google that they realize that a feature in one application could easily port to another. Google continued to leverage this […]

10 Internet Access, Security, Privacy Threats for 2010 by Clint Boulton Global Internet Censorship This issue takes on an interesting light when we consider Google’s recent pledge to cease censoring its Google.cn search engine in China after the company’s servers were hacked in the country. “New filtering initiatives in Australia and Europe combined with growing […]

Mindjet, the startup specializing in visualization software that helps knowledge workers collaborate on projects, has released a new version of its software for Apple’s Mac platform. Mindjet’s MindManager software lets users create “mind maps,” or graphs and charts that map out workers’ ideas, goals and projects using computers as the canvas. Rather than using documents, […]

Google Nexus One users suffering from poor 3G service may soon get a reprieve. A Google employee named Ravi said Google may have found a fix for the spotty 3G service plaguing users who purchased the Nexus One with service from T-Mobile in the last three weeks. “Our engineers have uncovered specific cases for which […]

Apple iPad Offers New Way of Accessing the Web by Clint Boulton The iPad The device is thin, only 0.5 inches thick with a 9.7-inch screen, and weighs 1.5 pounds. Great for Reading Content Analysts who heard about the Apple tablet before the launch suspected the iPad’s screen would lend itself to a fine digital […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs capped months of rampant speculation by introducing the Apple iPad tablet computer Jan. 27. The device is only one-half inch thick, weighs only 1.5 pounds and features a 9.7-inch IPS display, according to Engadget, which is live-blogging the event and has provided several excellent pictures of Jobs, the iPad and demos […]

Google Jan. 26 rolled out an HTML5-based version of its popular Google Voice application for Apple’s iPhone several months after Apple rejected Google’s original submission to its App Store. Google Voice is a Web-based phone management application that lets users route calls to their home, work and mobile phones from a special Google granted number. […]

Google is super concerned about how its users consume online content, almost as much as it is concerned about helping users find that content through its search engine. Google Reader is Google’s convergence of search and consumption, as the application crawls the Web to find stories and deliver the content via RSS feeds its users […]

Apple doubled in the first quarter the number of iPhones it sold in the first quarter from a year ago, shipping 8.3 million units of the world’s most popular smartphone and pushing the company to its $3.38 billion profit. But don’t think those devices all went to teenagers and soccer moms. Yes, the success of […]