Clint Boulton

Google has indexed and cataloged 76,000 images of the Metropolitan Musuem of Art’s art collection for its Goggles visual search application. What’s especially cool about this is that the Met let Google index thousands of photos or works it doesn’t even currently feature on display. What this means is that when you visit the museum […]

Once the ooing and ahhing about the Siri intelligent virtual assistant subsided a bit when the application appeared on Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone 4S in October, the tech press conjured questions concerning potential Siri competitors. Now comes evidence from the blog Android and Me that Google’s answer to Siri is a natural language processing enhancement to […]

Forgive me for this eye-roll inducing observation, but high-tech is often the hunting ground for the game of hindsight being 20-20. New evidence of that struck me dead center this past week as I tested Motorola Mobility’s (NYSE:MMI) follow-up to its Xoom tablet, the Droid Xyboard 10.1. Consumers can purchase the tablet, which weighs 1.29 […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has executed well over 150 feature additions or upgrades for Google+ since it launched the social network in June. Yet the company seems to be paying special attention to Google+ Hangouts, the video chat application that enables as many as 10 users to chat face-to-face. Google has rolled out two major Hangouts upgrades, […]

Consumers who came away empty handed after Verizon Wireless stores and other retailers sold out of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus can get the smartphone somewhere else for half the price: Amazon. The e-commerce giant’s Amazon Wireless unit is selling the Galaxy Nexus, the first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone, for $149.99 with a new, […]

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) continued its acquisition spree Dec. 15, agreeing to purchase Rypple, a startup that makes Web-based software for human resource professionals. Terms of the deal, which Salesforce.com expects to close by April 30, 2012, were not made public. Rypple’s software is a goal-setting application that helps human resource managers give employees feedback about […]

Facebook Dec. 15 began its worldwide rollout of Timeline, the company’s new user interface that features older photos and other information from earlier in users’ lives. Timeline is available everywhere for computer users, as well as via the Facebook for Android application and the social network’s m.facebook.com mobile Website. The new UI is not available […]

Build the Memory “Mirai e no kioku” means “Build the Memory” in Japanese. That’s what Google is trying to do with this Website. We’ll start with the coastal Miyahi Prefecture, which was largely leveled in the disaster. Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Before This shows the quiet town in June 2008, long before the earthquake and tsunami. […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) said Google Cloud Print has connected more than 6 million printers via the Google Chrome Web browser, the first time the search engine giant-turned business computing provider has released statistics for its Web-based printing service. More importantly, the new Chrome 16 build lets anyone using the browser on Windows, Mac and Linux computers […]

As I wrote last week, Google was preparing to let businesses offer check-in deals via the Google Places local search service. That’s now come to fruition as a new feature in the Offer coupon creation option in the Google Places dashboard, as first pointed out by the eagle-eyed Mike Blumental. Google confirmed the new service […]