Clint Boulton

The Google Chrome Operating System might be officially a year away from appearing in netbooks as a polished platform, but that shouldn’t stop some users itching to try it out in their machines today. A Dell employee has gotten Chromium OS, the code behind Chrome OS that Google released to open source Nov. 21, to […]

We’ve reached the holidays here in the U.S., and some people find the time to catch up on movies they normally might not see. So it’s good that Google earlier this month improved its Google movie search site, adding show times, trailers, reviewers, genre filters and Google Maps of theater locales. That’s all well and […]

Verizon Wireless’ advertising efforts for the Motorola Droid know no bounds. Not only are creative Droid commercials reaching us through our televisions, but on interactive billboards in Times Square, which as the mecca for tourism in New York City is also, by default of many of us humans behaving like sheep, the mecca for advertising. […]

Google was the victim of another Google bomb when the top-ranked result for U.S. first lady Michelle Obama on Google Image Search showed a picture of the woman altered to have the features of a chimpanzee below a link to a suggested Google search for the terms “Michelle Obama monkey.” The image was posted on […]

TransMedia, the software maker trying to challenge Microsoft and Google in the world of Web operating systems and collaboration, Dec. 7 will launch a fresh version of its Glide operating system with a focus on desktop and Web search. Glide OS 4.0 is a Web operating system and application suite packed into a browser plug-in […]

When Google moved to buy mobile display ad concern AdMob Nov. 9, I explored the notion that the deal could spark antitrust concerns. After all, anything Google does that involves search and/or advertising is heavily scrutinized today. IDC analyst Karsten Weide told me Google wouldn’t face regulatory opposition, noting that the top five players in […]

If it is possible to will something into existence, a fully integrated, entirely Google-branded phone geared to challenge Apple’s phenomenally successful iPhone will hit the market in 2010. Despite numerous protests that a phone created and sold by Google with the help of a third-party manufacturer would upset wireless carriers, Times Online reported Nov. 22 […]

Google’s Gmail application has enabled offline access since January, connecting with Google Gears to let users access their e-mail messages and contacts through a Web browser without a Web connection. However, users haven’t been able to include attachments, such as PDFs, word processing or spreadsheet files in messages composed while offline. That changed today, as […]

Google Nov. 23 began allowing developers to upload their extensions to Google Chrome’s extension gallery here.This means third-party programmers will be able to write applications that “extend” the Chrome browse and later the Chrome Operating System, which was released to open source last week.Extensions are important to help Google attract more developers behind Chrome at […]

Analysts discounted News Corp.’s rumored move to de-index its Web sites from Google and make their content available exclusively through Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Bernstein Research analyst Jeffrey Lindsay said News Corp.’s alleged plan to remove content from its Wall Street Journal and other Web sites from Google’s search engine is unlikely to rattle Google. […]

The free Google Maps Navigation feature for Google Maps is now available for smartphones running the Android 1.6 operating system build and higher, the search engine said Nov. 23. Google Maps Navigation is a Web-based GPS navigation system that provides turn-by-turn voice directions and automatic rerouting for U.S. users. Users can speak or type their […]

Interest in personalizing the e-mail in-box is piquing, as Gist Nov. 19 began allowing users to claim vanity URLs and curate their own public profiles for the Web. Gist is a free Web application that lets users more smoothly manage their personal and professional contacts in Microsoft Outlook, Google Gmail and Salesforce.com. Gist pulls profile […]