Clint Boulton

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Sept. 13 revealed Flight Search, which lets users search for airline flights and fares right from Google. Google Flight Search is the first fruit of Google’s integration of ITA Software, the flight data provider it purchased in April after a protracted antitrust investigation by the Justice Department. The service will compete with popular […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) August U.S. search-engine market share dipped to 64.8 percent from 65.1 percent in July, according to comScore. No. 2 search-engine provider Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) rose a tick to 16.3 percent from 16.1 percent in July, while its partner Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing gained the most, growing from 14.4 percent to 14.7 percent in the period. […]

Bowing to pressure from Europe’s data protection authorities, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is building a service that lets wireless Internet access point owners opt out of the search engine provider’s location services. Google leverages GPS systems, cellular phone towers and WiFi access points such as routers and cell phones to deliver more relevant search results. For example, […]

One of the regular memes has Apple iOS and Google’s Android mobile operating systems as the only platforms that matter in mobile. With some 70 percent of the market combined worldwide, it’s an easy case to make. But that’s the near-term view. The long view could paint a different, rosier picture for the platform of […]

Social network usage accounts for 25 percent of U.S. Web users’ time spent online, with Facebook leading the way at more than 53 billion total minutes spent online during May, according to research from Nielsen. Americans, who also visited Blogger, Tumblr, Twitter and LinkedIn (NASDAQ:LNKD) a fair bit, spend more time on Facebook than on […]

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) is negotiating with magazine and newspaper publishers over subscription- and single-copy periodical pricing, and noodling over a streaming book service with book publishers–all to fortify its content fortress for its forthcoming tablet. The e-commerce giant is expected to launch the Kindle Tablet, a 7-inch, Android-based tablet this November. The slate would cost less […]

AT&T (NYSE:T) is coming on strong in the Android “Honeycomb” tablet market, vowing to sell the 10.1-inch Acer Iconia Tab A501 4G tablet Sept. 18 for $479.99, or $329.99 on contract. Equipped with a 4G radio to run on AT&T’s 4G HSPA+ network, the Acer Iconia Tab A501 is the speediest Acer Honeycomb tablet yet, […]

Mosaic Born at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Mosaic surfaced in 1993 and laid the groundwork for technologies that make the Web easier to use. This includes the ability to display images in line with text instead of displaying images in a separate window. NCSA ceased developing […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android smartphone OEMs have pumped out so many handsets based on the open-source operating system-more than 300 varietals worldwide-that many of the latest handsets offer incremental improvements over their predecessors. Since Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZW) launched the Motorola Droid in November 2009, it has released two Droid updates, each time offering incremental improvements over […]

Great news, Netflix/Android phone owners! Netflix, which has fought to navigate the rough waters of security and digital rights management to put its service on more Android phones, upgraded its app to support content playback on all Android 2.2 and 2.3 devices. That means Netflix users who use “Froyo”- or “Gingerbread”-based phones can get their […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Sept. 8 warned its Gmail users in Iran that their accounts may be compromised by the fake Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security certificate issued by Dutch security firm DigiNotar. The search engine provider, believed to have between 150 million and 200 million Gmail users worldwide, said that its own servers and infrastructure were […]

Another analyst is putting stock in the Amazon (NASDAQ:AMAZN) tablet computer as a credible challenger to Apple’s iPad-sight unseen. J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz said Amazon’s arrival could buoy the market for tablet computers not made by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), whose iPad ignited the market in April 2010 and has sold over 30 million units to […]