Clint Boulton

MySpace Co-Founder Tom Anderson, a welcome regular on the Google+ pundit circut since the social network launched June 28, has some advice for those Google or Facebook haters who love to talk about which company has copied who. Long story short: Google+ apes Facebook in concept, but when it rolled out it became clear its […]

Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZW) will begin selling the HTC Rhyme, a 3G smartphone based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” operating system Sept. 29 for $199.99 on contract. With its plum color and special “charm” alert device (see it on The Verge blog), the Rhyme is targeted toward female customers, HTC executives indicated at a launch […]

Former Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) CEO and current Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will appear before the Senate antitrust subcommittee hearing this Wednesday, Sept. 22 to testify under oath about whether the company’s growing power and influence in search and the Web at large abuse antitrust laws and harm consumers. Senate subcommittee Chairman Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.) and his […]

The trend toward low-cost Android phones continued in the United States as Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZW) introduced the Pantech Breakout, a 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) smartphone the carrier will begin selling Sept. 22 for $99 on contract. The Pantech Breakout is based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” operating system, fueled by a 1GHz, single-core […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Sept. 19 purchased DailyDeal, a Berlin-based daily deals Website that competes with Groupon, LivingSocial and others in Germany. Launched in December 2009, DailyDeal has 200 employees and offers local deals of 50 to 90 percent off from restaurants, travel destinations, entertainment venues and retail outlets in more than 90 cities in Germany, Austria, […]

There’s been a lot of news around Google+ over the last few days. Actually more faux controversy than news, and some of it involves Facebook, so consider this a Google+ versus Facebook wrap. First, Mike Elgan wrote a detailed post for Datamation about how Facebook is becoming the next Yahoo. He notes that in addition […]

Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) customization of Android for its Kindle tablet could actually be better for the tablet market, according to an analyst. TechCrunch reported earlier this month that the 7-inch, full-color Kindle tablet is based on Android 2.1, albeit with layers of customization on top that make it look nothing like the builds Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Gmail application commands only 1 percent market email market share in the enterprise, but that’s enough for Gartner to proclaim the application has become a credible competitor to Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Exchange Online and other Web-based email services, proclaimed Gartner. Gmail is the search-engine provider’s cloud-computing messaging software, which became a household application in […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Sept. 15 updated its stable channel to version 14, which offers improvements for gaming, Mac OS X “Lion,” and squashes 32 bugs in the code for which the company paid $14,337. Developers may now add fancy audio effects such as room simulation and spatialization, thanks to the Web Audio API. Chrome for Mac […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and the authors and publishers contingent who sued it for copyright infringement in 2005 reported making “substantial progress” toward reaching a reasonable agreement, the third time the parties have attempted to come to terms in the last two years. New York District Court Judge Denny Chin acknowledged at a status conference Sept. 15 […]

It’s easy to rattle off superlatives about the first Samsung Galaxy S II device launched in the United States, which officially goes by the moniker Samsung Galaxy S II, Epic 4G Touch. So I thought I’d change things up a bit and delve into the smartphone’s biggest flaw, if you can call it that. The […]

How are Google’s plans for local deals and mobile payments shaping up? It depends on who you ask. Google will tell you everything is simpatico, but honestly, where is Google Wallet? I attended the super-hyped, exciting launch event in Google’s Chelsea office in Manhattan in May. The service was due to launch in New York […]