Clint Boulton

Google faced its first stiff test in selling its Nexus One smartphone when the company’s mobile help forum lit up with complaints about 3G service and other concerns late last week. When Google launched the smartphone Jan. 5, it did so via its new retail channel Nexus One Webstore, marking a strategic shift experts claimed […]

Many analysts view Google’s Nexus One as a vehicle that will enable the company to reach millions of users of the smartphone with mobile search text and display ads, and possible even click-to-call ads. BroadPoint AmTech analyst Benjamin Schachter is one of those analysts. Schachter has a hunch that, while the search giant won’t admit […]

The 2010 Consumer Electronics Show may be the show the high-tech world looks back on and proclaims as the event that ushered in the second coming of Android. A torrent of product releases from the show in Las Vegas this past week made it clear that Google’s operating system is not just a trendy open-source […]

Not everyone who covers Google could make the Jan. 5 launch event for the Google Nexus One smartphone and Webstore unveiling. Count me among them. This was a curse and a blessing for me. I followed the event in real time from my laptop at home, so I didn’t miss the news. What I did […]

Apple’s quiet purchase of Quattro Wireless for a reported $275 million is more than another shot across Google’s bow, it’s a sign of an industry hungry to create new revenue streams, according to experts. Quattro is a mobile ad network and Website designer that lets publishers such as Time, CBS Interactive and Visa pair eye-catching […]

Tour The Google Nexus One Webstore by Clint Boulton Google Webstore This landing page for Google’s Webstore prominently features the Nexus One next to a button that takes users to the purchase options. Click an App Icon In a super efficient demo, Google invites users to click an app icon on the phone displayed here […]

When Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering at Google, unveiled Google Goggles visual search at the company’s last major search event Dec. 7, somewhat lost in the news glut was his promise of letting users search from their mobile phones by using their location as a query. Google launched this feature, called Near Me Now, […]

Press and analysts who convened at Google’s Mountain View, Calif., headquarters for the Nexus One launch event Jan. 5 got a special treat after the show proceedings wrapped: a free, unlocked Nexus One GSM smartphone. The Nexus One is an HTC-made smartphone fitted with Android 2.1 operating system, and loads of snazzy software features, such […]

The New York Times’ David Pogue was beset by the Google Android Army, which, though I suspect it has massed in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show beginning Jan. 7, clearly had some reserves guarding the front lines of mainstream media. Android fans found Pogue’s review of the Google Nexus One smartphone to be […]

On2 Technologies shareholders have successfully wrangled more money out of Google’s bid for the video compression software maker. Google and On2 Jan. 7 said they have agreed to amend the terms for Google to buy On2 in a deal valued at roughly $134 million. On2 stockholders in August sued to block the deal for undervaluing […]

Ads for Google products are coming fast and furious on Google’s homepage, the place a Google search executive famously declared would be forever ad free. People have noticed that Google is running not only an ad and link for users to install the company’s Chrome Web browser, but an ad for the Google Nexus One […]

Enterprise social software provider Jive Software Jan. 7 said it has purchased Filtrbox for an undisclosed sum, marking the first of what could be several acquisitions of social media monitoring tools that detect memes coalescing on Web services. Filtrbox, whose customers include Kohler, Dairy Queen and Cigna, makes analysis widgets and reporting software that monitors, […]