Clint Boulton

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) 2011 Zeitgeist of popular, fast-rising search terms ranged from the usual gamut of muckety-muck celebrities to natural disasters, such as Hurricane Irene and the earthquake that struck Japan. The Zeitgeist, which culls data from billions of searches for the year, was also a hotbed for high-tech news. That’s the focus of this report. […]

Zoho, a provider of Web-based software for collaboration and enterprise applications, has upgraded its customer relationship management (CRM) software with Google Calendar synchronization, integration with business social network LinkedIn (NASDAQ:LNKD) and other features to boost user productivity. While Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) commands the lion’s share of large CRM installations in the cloud, Zoho is the scrappy […]

Verizon Wireless began selling Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone for $299.99 on contract online and in its retail stores Dec. 15, allowing Android fans awaiting the coveted gadget to exhale. Android phone fans have craved the Galaxy Nexus since Samsung introduced the 4G LTE (Long-Term Evolution) smartphone powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor at a launch […]

Android Icon We received the upgrade notice Dec. 12, clicked to update and the Honeycomb build downloaded over the air to our Revue and TV in about 5 minutes without a hitch. The cute little Android robot, munching popcorn, is an icon tailored for the Google TV experience. It’s the screen saver! Original The Google […]

Google’s mobile software team has been busy building a better iOS application for Gmail. Six weeks after Google prematurely launched a native Gmail app for iOS devices, and four weeks after relaunching it with the necessary fixes, Google has added even more features to the program. Gmail for iOS users may now add a custom […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system may power half the world’s smartphones, but Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS platform is capturing developer mind share. New application-development projects for iOS outnumber those for Android approximately three-to-one, according to mobile market analytics specialist Flurry. Flurry tracks developer support across platforms and culled its data from developers who set up analytics […]

Jive Software (NASDAQ:JIVE), a provider of social collaboration platforms for large businesses priced its initial public offering at $12 a share, valuing the company at about $688 million. Jive, which is trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol “JIVE”, offered 13,439,600 shares of its common stock to the public at $12 per […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) moved Chrome version 16 out of beta and into the stable channel Dec. 13, offering 15 bug fixes and adding the ability to sync the browser for multiple user accounts on the same Chrome installation. As far as paid flaw discoveries goes, Chrome 16 was a lightweight. Google only paid out $6,500 for […]

Seems everyone is finding it in their hearts to beat up on the Amazon Kindle Fire for its balky navigation and other gross fits and starts. On the other hand, most research firms still see the Fire, which Amazon dubbed its most successful product ever, as the tablet to beat this holiday quarter. Or at […]

With Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad selling close to 40 million units since its April 2010 launch, ostensibly birthing the tablet form factor, you can forgive high-tech punditry for reveling in tablet talk and prognostication. Fortunately, some analysts are given to skate to where the puck will be, not where it is, a common refrain in the […]