Clint Boulton

Internet sleuths detected intriguing patents from Google and Apple, which are increasingly trading blows over the desktop and mobile Web. The United States Patent & Trademark Office Dec. 31 published Apple’s location-sharing patent and Patent & Trademark Office position fix indicator patent, both of which describe functionality akin to what Google Latitude provides for users. […]

News Analysis: There are several opportunities to make money from pairing ads with search engines on smartphones and other mobile computing gadgets, but applications that take users directly to e-commerce sites and other Web service destinations threaten search providers, according to BroadPoint AmTech. Mobile Web search and queries are on the rise and will continue […]

ABC News has published this doomsday piece by Michael S. Malone, who notes that while Google’s Nexus One device is getting a lot of buzz, it won’t rightfully challenge Apple’s iPhone hegemony. Google is expected to unveil the device Jan. 5 at an Android press event at the company’s Mountain View, Calif., Googleplex. We know […]

First thing’s first: This is my first blog post of 2010, so Happy New Year everyone! Some of you may have read my eWEEK tête-à -tête with Bradley Horowitz, vice president of product management at Google, who told me that Google Voice is going to wow some people in 2010. Oh, and Google will accelerate […]

Search Engine Land’s Greg Sterling has his finger right on the pulse of the heady intersection of search, localization and mobility, so when he writes anything remotely related to those areas it’s worth a read. That includes this Dec. 30 piece in which Sterling laments that, in the last three weeks, it seems as though […]

Google will sell its Nexus One smartphone for $529.99 for users who want to pop in their existing SIM card, or with a two-year T-Mobile contract for $179.99, according to documents leaked to gadget Website Gizmodo. The price points, which a Google spokesperson declined to comment on for eWEEK Dec. 30, come as buzz is […]

A Google executive said the company has only scratched the surface of what it plans to do with Google Voice, the phone management application that lets users route calls to all of their phones from one unique number. Google Voice, which includes such tools as automatic voicemail transcription, SMS support, conference calling, and low-cost international […]

How Microsoft Bing Could Challenge Google in 2010 by Clint Boulton Murdoch, Microsoft Take On Google Tired of losing out to Google in search, the rumor mill speculates that Microsoft would pay News Corp. for making articles from The Wall Street Journal and other Murdoch-owned publications searchable exclusively through Bing. One such deal won’t do […]

We’ve already known the Google Nexus One phone is no myth, with Google employees brandishing them about town in San Francisco and numerous specification and video demos coming to the fore. Next week, we may well learn whether or not some of the other rumors about the device are fact or fiction. Google Jan. 5 […]

Top 10 Google Stories of 2009 by Clint Boulton Google Wave Easily the most ballyhooed and hyped product announcement of the year, perhaps in all of high-tech, Google Wave is the company’s real-time collaboration platform for sharing and co-editing documents. Unveiled at Google I/O in May, the HTML5-based platform was released to open source and […]

If you’re a fan of Google-is-getting-too-powerful-for-its-own-good conspiracies, this piece by independent security specialist Sherri Davidoff on her Philosecurity blog is a must read. Davidoff explores how Google is gradually gaining greater access to government data by landing municipal contracts from the city of Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and others who have “Gone Google.” Going Google […]

Did you ever use Google Voice apps such as GV Mobile or VoiceCentral on the iPhone before the apps were unceremoniously yanked from the App Store by Apple back in July? Yes, it’s been that long since you’ve been able to use Google Voice on the leading smartphone. Now Riverturn, the app developer behind VoiceCentral […]