Clint Boulton

Months after research indicated that Twitter’s growth burst was fueled by working users in the 25- to 54-year-old age range, Facebook has experienced a “staggering increase,” in users-513.7 percent-aged 55 and older in the last six months. iStrategyLabs, which culled demographics and statistics from Facebook’s social ads platform, found that fewer than 1 million users […]

On Sept. 23 2008, media and bloggers flocked to New York City to see T-Mobile, HTC and Google unveil the G1, the first U.S.-targeted smartphone based on Google’s Android open-source mobile operating system. For media and bloggers, the event was a cornucopia of video, slideshows and specification spouting punctuated by Google co-founders Larry Page and […]

Google July 7 took its core Google Apps out of beta and said Fairchild Semiconductor has moved its 5,500 employees to Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) from IBM Lotus Notes, the latest coup for the company’s growing effort in cloud computing. Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Talk are now out of beta more […]

Google may be generating interest from customers who want to access Google Apps data through the more familiar Microsoft Outlook interface, but it isn’t the only vendor providing plug-ins to help users marry the benefits of cloud computing with their Microsoft Office data. Enter OffiSync, a plug-in for Microsoft Office that lets users access Google […]

Five Gmail Labs Features We Need and 5 We Can Live Without by Clint Boulton Offline Access Offline access to data is table stakes, particularly for users who want to access their Gmail from the skies during a flight. Google Search and Autocomplete These tools are vital for Gmail users who need them to ferret […]

Dallas Mavericks owner and high-tech market pundit Mark Cuban posted an interesting piece this weekend on businesses that offer users content for free. It’s a timely piece, given the furor over Wired Editor in Chief Chris Anderson’s new book “Free: The Future of a Radical Price.“ Basically, Cuban argues that those successful companies that provide […]

In case people hadn’t noticed, there is a new holy war boiling up from the land of Web search engines. Microsoft’s Bing search engine has only been public for more than a month and it is already drawing comparisons to Google’s leading search engine. Comparisons between Google and Microsoft are not new. Users, pundits and […]

Yahoo July 7 plans to roll out a Web-based annotation tool for its search engine that lets users grab content and sock it away in one page for quick and dirty reference. Yahoo Search Pad, in beta since February, is designed to alleviate the pain points users have in taking content culled from Web searches […]

There’s no rest for the large and in charge. While some of us were whisking off to our Independence Day weekend getaways, Google boosted its blog, book and mobile search offerings to start off July with a bang. First, the new Google Blog Search has gotten a touch of the Twitter treatment with the Hot […]

Google Voice users know the drill from when they signed up for the GrandCentral. Users are assigned one number that will ring their home, work and cell phones, if you so choose. The number is tied to each user, a Social Security number for VOIP communications. But users who are moving to another town or […]

The U.S. Justice Department July 2 said it is formally investigating the $125 million settlement between Google and authors and publishers that lets the search engine scan books online and grant access to them for a fee. Deputy Assistant Attorney General William Cavanaugh said in a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin the […]

You know what really grinds my gears? There’s a popular argument circulating that Google Apps isn’t good enough for enterprises, that the SAAS collaboration software suite isn’t battle tested enough. One could certainly make that case against the standard Google Apps, with its easy-breezy, no-frills approach to computing. The Google Apps Premier Edition is much […]