Clint Boulton

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing and Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) June 2 introduced schema.org, an effort to help Website publishers improve Web search results for users. Those top three search engines, particularly Google, take tons of flak and quips from journalists, pundits and search experts who claim results from these search results have grown increasingly laden with […]

Google officials said at Google I/O that Chrome Operating System notebooks from Samsung and Acer would be available June 15 online from Amazon.com and Best Buy. That’s still the case, but Google said it came in possession of a limited number of Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks, which I got to play with at a Samsung […]

Google uncovered a phishing scam that duped senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries and media members into giving up their Gmail passwords so that an attacker could read and forward their email messages. Google, which detected the scam through its Web-based security systems and other reports, disrupted the attack. […]

Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZW) and T-Mobile will begin offering the long-awaited, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 June 8 on a limited basis with Google’s Android 3.1 “Honeycomb” operating system. Available in metallica gray or glossy white, Verizon’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 is equipped with a 4G LTE (Long-Term Evolution) broadband radio, and will be available for preorder only […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) June 1 made its +1 content recommendation button available to several of its own properties as well as to media outlets such as TechCrunch and Reuters. +1 is Google’s answer to Facebook’s Like button, allowing users to click a button to recommend content to friends and contacts. Google Profiles owners click the +1 […]

T-Mobile Sensation 4G Priced at $199.99 after a $50 rebate with a two-year contract, the Sensation 4G employs a 4.3-inch (qHD) quarter-high-definition, touch-screen display (960 by 540 resolution) powered by a 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and HTC’s Sense user interface. Sensation 4G is also T-Mobile’s first smartphone to run Gingerbread, which offers a better virtual […]

Google Apps reseller Cloud Sherpas is expanding to the West Coast, thanks to an acquisition of smaller rival Omnetic. Terms of the deal, announced June 2, were not made public. Cloud Sherpas is the largest reseller of the Google Apps cloud computing collaboration suite in the United States. The Atlanta-based company has migrated more than […]

Google co-founder Larry Page was effusive in his praise about Eric Schmidt when he announced the CEO who had led Google for a decade would become executive chairman at the search engine. Page even went so far as to suggest Schmidt’s appointment was a promotion. With Page taking over as CEO and day-to-day operations of […]

Twitter use is growing as some 13 percent of online adults surveyed said they use the microblog, which lets people update their status in 140-character messages called tweets. Pew Research said Twitter use saw a “significant increase” from the 8 percent of online adults who said they used Twitter last November. Twitter surveyed 2,277 online […]

Google’s Chrome Web browser hit 12.5 percent market share through May, up from 12 percent through April, according to Net Applications. Microsoft Internet Explorer fell to 54.3 percent from 55.1 percent, while Mozilla Firefox edged up to 21.7 percent from 21.6 percent over the same period. Apple Safari gained as well, boasting 7.3 percent share […]

T-Mobile USA said it will begin selling the HTC Sensation 4G Android smartphone June 15 for $199.99 after a $50 mail-rebate and a two-year contract. The Sensation 4G features a 4.3-inch quarter high definition (qHD), WVGA TFT capacitive touch-screen display (960-by540 resolution) powered by a 1.2GHz qualcomm Snapdragon processor and HTC’s Sense user interface. Sensation […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt acknowledged that he failed to move quickly enough to address the market for online identity, enabling Facebook to build the world’s largest social network. Schmidt, who passed his CEO baton to Google co-founder Larry Page in April said May 31 at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., […]