Clint Boulton

Almost 40 percent of Facebook users polled in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia have donated money, food or clothing to help the disaster relief efforts in Haiti after it was hammered by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake Jan. 12. The Nielsen Company and Facebook polled 50,641 Facebook users ages 13 and older on Jan. […]

Google continued its push to make its Web browser more than just an engine that renders Web pages by bringing 1,500 extensions to the masses through the latest stable build of Chrome for Windows Jan. 25. Extensions, popularized in Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser, are lightweight applications that developers create that let users customize the Web […]

Are people spending too much time online? Statistics from The Nielsen Company about social networking use and new numbers from ComScore on the explosion in Web searches point to an explosion in Web use toward the end of 2009, up significantly from one year ago. Nielsen found that consumers worldwide spent an average of more […]

Apple executives will take the stage at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco Jan. 27, and are expected to unveil the anticipated Apple tablet computer. There is a lot of information seeping through the reality distortion field around the device, the official name of which (iSlate? iPad? iTablet?) no one aside from Apple CEO Steve […]

The Google Chrome Operating System isn’t expected to find its way onto netbooks until the end of 2010, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that it is aimed at disrupting the entrenched Microsoft Windows operating system. The lead Chrome engineer told Ars Technica the emerging product and its Chrome Web browser sidekick will have a complete […]

Google’s strategy to “double down” on its core search business helped the company clean up as the top search property with 87.8 billion searches in December 2009, or 66.8 percent of the more than 131 billion searches conducted worldwide. That’s good for a 58 percent increase in search query volume over the past year, according […]

News Analysis: Facebook more than doubled its U.S. audience from 54.5 million visitors in December 2008 to 111.9 million visitors in December 2009, according to researcher comScore. The success of the social network in its fifth year is the greatest for a Web company since that of Google, which went public after its fifth year […]

A developer has modified Google’s Android 2.1 mobile operating system to endow Google’s Nexus One smartphone with multitouch, which lets users navigate the device with more than one finger at once. Wired found out that Steve Kondik, whose developer handle is Cyanogen, Jan. 21 released files and code to enable fellow developers to add multitouch […]

Just days after pointing out how its search algorithms are bold-facing synonyms to highlight the search engine’s semantic search chops, Google said it will soon start bold-facing factual answers. What does Google classify as a “factual answer”? Answers to queries for specific information, such as heights, weights, dates and other trivia that may come in […]

Google Jan. 20 unveiled some important changes to its mobile search ad and Gmail ad offerings. First, AdWords publishers showing ads on mobile devices with full Web browsers can now target based on Android, Apple iPhone or Palm WebOS devices and carriers simply by checking a box: This is big news for publishers and advertisers […]

Updated: Google Jan. 20 added read-only participants and wave restoration to Google Wave, two features that should help collaboration sessions stay on topic for a platform seeking to fill some management gaps. Google Wave is the company’s real-time collaboration platform, which combines team document editing, e-mail, instant messaging and social networking into one platform, whose […]