Clint Boulton

10 Apps That Met Googles Android Dev Challenge By Clint Boulton 1. AndroidScanFrom Jeffrey Sharkey, AndroidScan allows users to find prices and reviews for anything with a bar code. It shows CD, DVD and book covers, along with detailed reviews from Amazon.com. It also searches more than a dozen stores, highlighting nearby brick-and-mortar institutions, with […]

Some people may think I’m perseverating here on Verizon’s casual-seeming rebuke of Android, but I’m going to illuminate anyway. When asked why Verizon chose LiMo over Google, Kyle Malady, vice president of network for Verizon, said on a conference call that LiMo’s membership consists of a diverse set of experts from the carrier community, software […]

After months of speculation that Plaxo was on the block, nobody was really surprised when Comcast on May 14 agreed to buy the struggling enabler of networked e-mail services. Even so, the reaction was, largely, “this sucks.” Plaxo started out as an e-mail address book that updated contact information whenever users made a change, realizing […]

Carl Icahn is once again coming to wrest control of a public company from its leaders. The billionaire investor, a hero to investors who feel they’ve been wronged by breaches of fiduciary duty and a scourge to public companies determined to follow an independent path, said he will wage a proxy fight for Yahoo if […]

Playing off the belief that Web users turn to search engines to get information to complete tasks, Yahoo May 15 released its new open developer platform to let programmers write applications that boost the relevance of search results. Called SearchMonkey, the effort is the first leg of the company’s ambitious YOS (Yahoo Open Strategy), a […]

Google is holding a press pow-wow Monday, May 19 at its Googleplex in Mountain View, offering what an invite says is “an insider’s perspective on search” and “an update on Google Health.” The former sounds like background BS. What will Google tell us about its search that it hasn’t already illuminated? Even if it gives […]

Google is basking in the glow of what it deemed a successful Android Developer Challenge, a program looking to build out the mobile operating system that received 1,788 submissions. Anxious to facilitate the rapid adoption of applications for Android as Google competes with rivals Yahoo and Microsoft in the mobile market, the search giant on […]

Despite tame comments and a willingness to consider supporting Google’s Android platform, Verizon’s strong support of the LiMo Foundation could color in the battle lines between not only Google and Verizon, but also the Google-backed Open Handset Alliance and LiMo. LiMo, a global consortium comprising 40 companies dedicated to creating Linux-based handsets as alternatives to […]

Google continues to improve its applications for the iPhone. The latest perk is a new version of Google Reader designed for the iPhone and other mobile phones with “advanced browsers.” Check it out here. Google Reader is essentially the company’s RSS feed, allowing users to check their favorite news sites and blogs for fresh copy. […]

“Social is going mainstream. It used to be hard and proprietary; it’s becoming easy and open.” That’s the confident proclamation Google Director of Product Engineering David Glazer made Monday to trumpet the arrival of not only Google’s Friend Connect data portability service, but those of MySpace and Facebook, which launched in quick succession Thursday and […]

Taking aim at the spotty connectivity of wireless VOIP, network analysis software maker WildPackets claims it has found a way to capture and analyze wireless data from multiple channels in real time. This is a key ingredient to helping businesses monitor and manage wireless voice-over-IP applications. Networking vendors Cisco Systems, Vonage and Avaya sell their […]

Social networks are increasingly being appropriated for sales groups within businesses, but so-called Enterprise 2.0 is also burbling up from other areas. For example, in 2006, employees of global pharmaceutical company Pfizer began blogging, thanks to the work of Simon Revell, the company’s manager of Enterprise 2.0 technology development. Now Revell finds himself overseeing Pfizerpedia, […]