Clint Boulton

Payment systems for Web-enabled smartphones have been something of mythical unicorn in high technology, but a new company hopes to change that with a device and application geared to enable credit card payments on Apple iPhones. Square, founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Jim McKelvey and Tristan O-Tierney, came out of stealth mode Dec. 1 […]

TwitterPeek: The Single-Purpose Tweeting Device by Clint Boulton TwitterPeek Package The box, decked out in Twitter blue and logo, proudly displays Peek’s Wired award. TwitterPeek Pouch The device has its own pouch protector. The TwitterPeek Meet the TwitterPeek. At 4 inches long, 2.7 inches wide and one-quarter inch thick, the device looks like a calculator, […]

Facebook and Yahoo are building a bridge that will let users access their Facebook content from Yahoo and their Yahoo content from Facebook. Sometime in the first half of 2010, Yahoo users will be able to click the Yahoo Updates tab on the site to see the activities of their Facebook friends, and share Flickr […]

Top 10 Consumer Mobile Apps for 2012 Ever the would-be high-tech Nostramadus, research company Gartner has picked out 10 software applications it believes will define the mobile computing experience for consumers by 2012. More importantly, Gartner sees the balance of power moving from mobile carriers to consumers, who buy smartphones to access the Web. Gartner […]

Rumors of the Google Phone appear to not be as exaggerated as many people believe. Gizmodo Nov. 30 cited a trusted source “who’s seen it with their own eyes, the “it” being a Google-branded smartphone running a new flavor of Google’s Android mobile operating system. Gizmodo noted: “Over the next few weeks, Google Phones (most […]

Google Android developers are saying having three versions of the open source operating system — Android 1.5, 1.6 and 2.0 — kicking around is a problem. The disparate phones and their custom firmware are also issues. But Android developers are unhappy for other reasons, according to a small survey taken by Skyhook Wireless in October: […]

Michael Jackson, who passed away from a drug overdose this year on June 25, was the top search term on Google and Yahoo in 2009, perhaps fitting for the king of pop music. Query volume about Jackson even crashed Google. Google’s Zeitgeist report, which aims to capture what users searched for over the course of […]

Newsweek columnist Dan Lyons is prone to writing (and saying, if you’ve been fortunate enough to be entertained hearing him speak in conference halls) outrageous things. We wouldn’t expect anything less of a man who writes a faux blog dubbed The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. So I braced myself when I read his latest […]

News Analysis: Of the dozen or so friends and family members in my social circle that have planted digital digs on Facebook, not one of them either gets or cares for Twitter. Those that grok it think it’s stupid. This is astounding to me. As I write this, Twitter fanatics are questioning my choice of […]

Glide OS 4.0 Offers Google, Bing Search by Clint Boulton Glide OS 4.0 States Users can switch easily from the Glide Write word processing app to the Glide Engage social networking app. Note the user’s Twitter feed on the right and contacts below. Glide OS 4.0 Collaboration A content creator chooses whom to share the […]

Google Nov. 27 posted the results of an online survey in which it details what people like and don’t like about Google Wave, the company’s real-time messaging and collaboration platform. People like the idea of a “wave” as a one-stop communications and collaboration hub, allowing users to e-mail, instant message, share files, and network. Users […]

While the world must wait until at least January to experience Google’s Caffeine next-generation infrastructure, Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google, and her team are reworking Google’s user interface. More than Caffeine, this redesign is sure to drive people who have become comfortable with Google the way it is […]