Clint Boulton

Apples iPhone, iPad A conversation about the App Economy has to start with the devices that started it all, beginning with the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2010. These products are still popular, with Apple selling 37 million iPhones and 15.4 million iPads last quarter alone. TechNet noted: “The incredibly rapid rise of […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) started 2012 on a high note in search, garnering 66.2 percent U.S. market share through January from 65.9 percent through December, according to comScore. Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) share edged up, from 15.1 percent to 15.2 percent. Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), which is relying on Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) to power its search engine and search ads, continued its […]

Near field communications, also known as good-ole NFC, was one of a handful of rages in 2011. You couldn’t read a story about mobile payment systems without seeing NFC as one of the keywords, which is ironic because NFC-based mobile payment systems haven’t exactly taken off. I’m looking at you Google Wallet. What we do […]

As Android tablets go, Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire is absolutely flourishing in the U.S., where industry analysts estimate the e-commerce company sold 4 million to 6 million of the 7-inch slates at $199 a pop for the holiday quarter. Yet each report of the Kindle Fire’s success adds some more salt to the tender wounds […]

WorkSimple, a startup in a performance management space that is heating up, has seeded its Free Forever goal performance application in the Google Apps Marketplace, the search engine’s online store for apps that hook into Google Apps. WorkSimple competes with SuccessFactors and Rypple, both of which have been acquired by larger companies seeking to improve […]

Updated: Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is willing to pay online surfers to browse the Web and share data about their travels with the search-engine giant. The company has begun soliciting users for its Screenwise program, in which it will pay Chrome users in Amazon gift cards to surf Websites. Users must install a lightweight browser extension, which […]

John Battelle has been on a roll of late, opining on a number of Internet topics I hold near and dear, particularly the competitive dynamic of the Big 5 of the Internet. Those would be Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook, and all of their walled gardens, another Battelle topic du jour. Yesterday Battelle drew […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Feb. 7 launched a beta of Chrome for Android, a mobile version of the popular browser that is used by more than 200 million people worldwide on the desktop. The catch is that it is currently only available for smartphones and tablets based on the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), whose co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have discussed building an elevator to space, is no stranger to thinking about and tackling daunting challenges. The company Feb. 6 moved to aggregate so-called “moonshot technology” projects intended to help solve worldwide problems, such as tackling water scarcity and efficient drug delivery. The Website, wesolveforx.com, […]

Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) is the world’s top-selling smartphone, but more first-time smartphone buyers purchased a handset based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system, according to The NPD Group. Android commanded 48 percent of the U.S. smartphone market through the fourth quarter, compared with 43 percent for Apple’s iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS. However, 57 […]