Clint Boulton

NEW YORK–Having just attended the launch of the T-Mobile G1 smart phone, based on Google’s Android open-source mobile operating software stack, I have to say I’m a bit torn.On one hand, the event, which featured Android creator Andy Rubin, executives from T-Mobile USA, Deutsche Telekom, and HTC, was significant because it showed that Google made […]

NEW YORK — Google, T-Mobile and other partners took the stage here Sept. 23 to unveil the T-Mobile G1 smart phone, the first Android mobile operating system-based device.As previously reported, the G1 boasts a touch screen, a slideout QWERTY keyboard and trackball to give users the most accessibility possible while searching Web content from a […]

Behold, the T-Mobile G1 Smart Phone by Clint Boulton and Stephen Wellman Behold, the T-Mobile G1 Smart Phone – G1 Cohorts Pose For Group Photo From left to right, HTC President and CEO Peter Chou; Google Senior Director of Mobile Platforms Andy Rubin; Christopher Schl???ffer, group product and innovation office of Deustche Telekom; and Cole […]

Google, T-Mobile G1 Official Photos Google, T-Mobile G1 Official Photos – T-Mobile G1 If it looks like a gaming logo don’t fret. The G1 is primed to be fun for consumers much the way Apple’s iPhone was. What do you think about the device’s brand logo? Google, T-Mobile G1 Official Photos – I, Rubin, Father […]

Google’s No. 1 goal is to organize the world’s information and make it easily searchable online.Considering that a whole lot of the world’s information can be found in books, the company sees book search as a big step on the path to fulfilling the primary goal, in spite of uneasiness from some publishers that resist […]

Startup Gogimon has created a “search medium” to help refine results and offer an alternative to users terrified that search engines from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are digesting their data.Gogimon’s Internet Search Channel is a piece of software, with Microsoft Internet Explorer embedded, that users download on their desktops.The application takes keywords from the search […]

Andy Rubin, father of Google’s Android operating system, waxed ecstatic about the future of mobile computing in a blog post Sept. 19.The post, timed to whet users’ appetites ahead of the introduction of the first Android-based smart phone by Google and T-Mobile in New York Sept. 23, is getting little play in the blogosphere.Google watchers […]

On Sept. 17 I published a piece in which I wondered whether or not the T-Mobile Dream, the first phone based on Google’s Android operating system, would sell as many copies as the first iPhone did in the same amount of time.The Dream, which is being unveiled Sept. 23 at an event in New York, […]

Google’s North American sales chief reiterated that neither Google nor Yahoo plans to set ad prices in their proposed search ad pact, a deal that has been hotly contested and is expected to be challenged by the U.S. Justice Department soon.Tim Armstrong, president of advertising and commerce in North America, has issued two blog posts […]

Cisco Systems, the networking giant that has been extending its cover to sectors such as unified communications and collaboration, has acquired open-source instant messaging software maker Jabber for an undisclosed sum. Cisco will embed and offer Jabber’s XCP for users through both Cisco’s on-premise unified communications suite and and its SAAS (software as a service) […]

Google’s Google Video for Business application is getting a new challenger in IVT, which plans to launch a media content and management system for businesses Sept. 23, according to a source.Called IVT PrimeTime, the software platform lets users search, store and share video content. Moreover, content creators and viewers may interact using social networking tools […]

Google held one of its Zeitgeist meetings at the company’s Mountain View headquarters, with Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin holding court with the media for a spell.The interesting news from my perspective came out of this press briefing, where Schmidt apparently said Google was going ahead with the Yahoo […]