Clint Boulton

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) quiet introduction of facial recognition for its photos application on Google+ is drawing praise from analysts and security researchers alike because it stands in stark contrast to the way Facebook employed similar technology earlier this year. That is, it’s opt-in. Google’s Find My Face feature lets its Google+ social network users opt-in to […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Dec. 8 launched Google Currents, its long-awaited magazine-reading application for smartphones and tablets, joining an increasingly competitive field led by Flipboard and Zite. Google Currents will let users access and read articles from more than 180 publications on Android smartphones and tablets, as well as Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPads and iPhones. Full-length articles from […]

No doubt many people have read about and have had time to parse the ramifications of Google allegedly (NASDAQ:GOOG) building a rival to Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Prime two-day shipping service. Aside from denting Amazon’s e-commerce armor, Google could also gain some valuable customer data to target consumers with ads. The crux is that Google Product Search […]

Zynga, which is preparing for a $900 million-plus initial public offering, has made its popular Zynga Poker gaming application available for Google TV. Available on Sony TVs, Blu-ray players and the Logitech Revue companion box, Google TV is Google’s fledgling platform for wedding Web and channel surfing. The search engine, trying to coax more consumers […]

The Google+ team has been hard at work, adding well over 100 features since launching the platform June 28 and releasing it to public beta in September. One area that hasn’t been addressed much has been Google+ Photos, which were actually pretty solid at launch. What’s better than the Instant Upload feature for Android phones? […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Dec. 8 more closely married Google+ with its Gmail and Contacts services, tweaking the applications so that when users open an email from someone on Google+, the recipient will see the most recent post the sender shared with them. The recent post will appear to the right of the conversation thread, Mark Striebeck, […]

John Battelle is doing some nice culling for his next book, “What We Hath Wrought.” Normally, I’d shun any book with a title like that because it invokes the dreaded Triple P threat: portentous, pompous and pretentious. But this is Battelle, baby. Even if the title sounds like something an Ivy League essayist wrote, I’ll […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Dec. 7 upgraded its Goggles visual search application to let users receive search results without clicking the camera shutter on Android smartphones. Goggles lets users scan objects such as book covers, paintings, landmarks and other objects with a smartphone camera to retrieve information on Google’s search engine about that object. Over the last […]

Logitech’s Revue companion box is getting the Google TV upgrade, more than a month after Sony TVs and Blu-ray players received the first major upgrade of the search engine’s Web TV application. Google upgraded the platform from Android 2.1 to Android 3.1 in October, starting with Sony’s Internet TVs and Blu-ray players. The new Google […]

Peppered with questions about when their phones will get the upgrade to Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) and Sony Ericsson provided more clarity on the upgrade process for bringing their smartphones up to the next Android build. In short, both Android OEMs conduct a lot of code stabilization, […]