Clint Boulton

One day after Google boiled the high-tech waters with its threat to exit China’s business, Nielsen said Google retained its command of the U.S. search market with 67.3 percent of all searches. That’s up almost two percentage points from the 65.4 percent it totaled in November, the research firm said Jan. 13. Yahoo, which has […]

If one were to simply judge the Google Nexus One smartphone by its first week of sales, it would be, well, a dog. That would be unfair, though, as you’ll see from this review. It’s a really fine piece of hardware with some excellent Android 2.1 software and Google applications. Such as it is, however, […]

Google’s threat to exit China in the wake of security attacks on Gmail accounts of Chinese dissidents and human rights activists has roiled the high-tech sector, recalling arguments against the cloud computing model Google famously employs to provide Web services. Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond wrote in a blog post Jan. 12 that Google […]

The use of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter in enterprises require much greater governance and oversight than is currently practiced, according to a new study sponsored by Cisco’s services group. Cisco commissioned three business schools, the IESE Business School in Spain, E. Philip Saunders College of Business at the Rochester Institute of Technology […]

Google Nexus One: Smartphone Setup and Start-Up by Clint Boulton Simple, but Elegant The Nexus One came nestled in this simple white box, a departure from the Droid box, which featured the Droid’s now signature red, all-seeing robotic eye. Unboxed Lifting the cover reveals the phone encased in a cellophane wrapper, welcoming users to the […]

I’ve been using the HTC-built Nexus One smartphone for two days and concluded that this is easily the best Android device on the market. I did not attend the Jan. 5 Nexus One launch event at Google’s headquarters, but Google was kind enough to send me a loaner device. This device was serviced by T-Mobile […]

Google Jan. 12 took steps to make files more universally accessible through Google Docs, and in doing so moved a step closer to the GDrive, which has been lurking in the background at Google as a possible uber-online file repository. Google said it is letting Google Apps users upload to Google Docs all file types […]

The folks at Phandroid took the time Jan. 11 to read the fine print on Google’s Terms of Sale for its Nexus One smartphone and found an alarming detail. Consumers who buy a subsidized Nexus One through their carrier and cancel the account before 120 days must pay Google an Equipment Recovery Fee in addition […]

Google Jan. 11 released the software development kit for Android 2.1, the newfangled operating system that debuted in the Google Nexus One smartphone Jan. 5. This means developers for the Android platform can download the 2.1 SDK from the SDK Manager and begin building applications with it. Google’s Android team described Android 2.1 as a […]

Update: Google Jan. 9 said it was sorry to the Chinese Writers Association for not communicating properly with Chinese authors and vowed to “respect the wishes of any Chinese author who hasn’t authorized their books to be scanned.” Bloomberg cited the apology in a letter from Asia’s Google Books Chief Erik Hartmann to the writers’ […]

Google’s Nexus One is getting a lot of play, more for Google’s business model of selling the Android 2.1 device through its new Webstore than for the actual phone itself. Review of the device have been unspectacular. I’ve written often how Google views the Nexus One and other Android devices as handheld ad distribution gizmos. […]

As the leading search provider with an interest in expanding its purview online through other Web services, Google is acutely aware of its power consumption. The company’s Google Energy subsidiary is charged with doing something about it and has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the right to buy and resell electricity to consumers […]