Clint Boulton

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) search share fell a few ticks through July, yet the market leader clung to its seemingly perennial 65 percent search share in the U.S., according to comScore. Google’s search market share, which by comScore’s calculations, hasn’t budged from the 65 percent mark since crossing that threshold in October 2009, slid from 65.5 percent […]

Surprise. Search and email are the two leading online activities, with 92 percent of U.S. adult Internet users using Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Microsoft Bing (NASDAQ:MSFT), Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) and email from those companies and others, according to a Pew Internet Project surveys. Pew polled 2,277 adults from April 26 to May 22 for its results, which cemented […]

It’s easy when the top players in the industry talk big. If Apple or Google executives want to trumpet how great their software is, we can oblige them to a degree. They own the leading smartphone platforms in the world right now. But comments offered by Chris Weber, president of Nokia in North America, to […]

I’ve been following the Android mobile patent crusades closely, largely with the aid of Florian Mueller and others who have been kind or fervent enough to lend their wisdom and logic to the processes involved. PaidContent’s Tom Krazit provided a fine analysis of the battles waged by Apple and Microsoft on one side, and Google […]

Tablets based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android platform and other operating systems have a better shot at challenging Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad in Europe, but they’re still trailing the incumbent in terms of price and content provisions, according to Forrester Research. The iPad has sold more than 28 million units worldwide since it launched in April 2010. […]

Facebook on Aug. 9 launched a new messaging application for Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android smartphones, a program that extends Facebook Messages from the desktop and adds some of the functionality from group chat specialist Beluga. Available free for download in the United States and Canada from Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store and Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android […]

What defines a “superphone?” For Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM), superphones are essentially code for newfangled smartphones based on the company’s QNX operating system, the well-regarded platform RIM acquired last year to serve as the basis for its BlackBerry Playbook tablet. RIM co-CEOS Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have both said the superphones were intended to […]

Google+ is enjoying user engagement at the expense of rival social networks Facebook and Twitter, according to YouGov, which expects another 16 million U.S. users to join the new social network over the coming year. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) launched its Google+ search engine to limited field-testing June 28. The social network, which lets users add contacts […]

With the number of lawsuits versus Google’s Android operating system approaching the number of cards in a deck of playing cards, it’s no wonder the search engine is trying to acquire patents related to mobile phone and wireless network software. A good question to ask is: Is Google doing enough? Microsoft, Apple and others in […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Aug. 8 cranked out another update to its Google+ for iOS application, adding support for Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) popular iPad tablet and iPod touch Web-browsing and gaming gadget. Launched June 28 to limited field testing on the desktop and via an Android application, Google+ is a new social network that has over 25 million […]

Tom Anderson has returned from the depths of near anonymity (ironic, considering he created MySpace,) to write some of the more thoughtful posts on Google+, where he is an active, active contributor. Not only that, but he’s reproducing Google+ posts for TechCrunch (or vice versa) and I find myself reading every piece he’s putting out. […]

A Microsoft researcher came out swinging at the stringent “real-names” policy for Google+ that requires the jettisoning of accounts on the social network that have been forged with fake names or pseudonyms. Google+ requires its 25 million-plus users to fill out Google user Profiles, public pages on the Web that users may fill out “to […]