Clint Boulton

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra said the Google+ social network’s meteoric rise to more than 40 million users one month after launching to public beta exceeded the company’s internal expectations, and vowed to bring pseudonyms to users. Gundotra, who shepherded Google+ to fruition for the past one and a half years, appeared alongside […]

Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) Oct. 19 made some die-hard Android tablet users happy by porting a version of its application for Google’s Honeycomb operating system, the Android 3.x version the company tailored expressly for tablets. Android tablets such as the Motorola (NYSE:MMI) Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab haven’t sold as well as their rival Apple iPad, which […]

Samsung and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) introduced the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone, the first handset equipped with Google’s Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” operating system. The collaborators unveiled the Galaxy Nexus, which has a 4.65-inch, HD 720p (1280×720) Super AMOLED display and is powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core chip, at an event in Hong Kong Oct. […]

Meet the Co-hosts John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly warm up the audience with their explanation of the event’s theme: “the data frame.” Sean Parker Parker, who co-founded the Napster music service, discussed the challenges and potential in the digital music space, particularly for music power Spotify. He also denied Facebook has a lingering privacy problem. […]

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Here is the Galaxy Nexus, from all angles. Display The 4.65-inch display is an HD 720p (1280×720) Super AMOLED display, which means its super crisp and clear. Side View The phone is also thin, measuring just 8.94 millimeters thick. Also, note how Samsung has moved away from the curved, contoured look of […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Oct. 18 upgraded its Google Docs presentations capabilities, adding real-time collaboration capabilities and more than 50 other new features to better compete with Microsoft Office Web Apps and other tools. Docs presentations won’t be mistaken for Google Wave, the failed collaboration platform that leveraged XMPP to run in real time. However, the online […]

To my mind, the best question put to Sean Parker (he of Napster fame) here at the show in San Francisco Oct. 17 was whether Google+ had a shot at challenging Facebook and its massive user base of 800 million people. Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney asked: “What’s the chance you think that 3 or 5 […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Oct. 17 said it has added the ability for consumers to not only pay for goods purchased from certain retailers with the Google Wallet service, but redeem coupons and earn reward points in the same transaction. What this means is that a consumer using a Google Android-based Samsung Nexus S 4G smartphone can […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer pulled no punches in his appearance here at the Web 2.0 Summit Oct. 18. He livened up a relatively controversy-free show by poking fun at Google’s (NASDQ:GOOG) Apps cloud collaboration software, the Android mobile operating system and even Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone. Ballmer last spoke here at the […]

One of Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) big future bets is paying off well in the present, as the search engine’s mobile ad revenues are tracking to bank $2.5 billion in 2011, Google CEO Larry Page revealed on the company’s third quarter earnings call Oct. 13. That’s more than double the $1 billion run-rate then Google Senior Vice […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Oct. 18 said it will begin redirecting most of users signed into their Google accounts to the HTTPS version of Google.com, which encrypts searches that users perform, as well as the results. The encryption comes courtesy of SSL (Secure Socket Layer), a security standard used by most banking and e-commerce Websites. Google began […]

These are exciting and excruciating times to be a Google watcher. One of the things I’ve tried to pay the most attention to in the past three years are emerging threats that rise up to challenge Google. I mean, they’ve got search as we now know and use it down cold, right? So I like […]