Clint Boulton

Far be it for me to throw cold water on the prospect of exciting new software from Google, but the Google-is-building-a-Siri-rival meme is wearing thin on me. I noted last year how the smart speech-recognition service would be called Majel. Now TechCrunch says that name has changed to, simply, Google Assistant. Check out these other […]

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt excited the Mobile World Congress audience last week when he discussed how Android smartphones would be getting cheaper and cheaper in the next couple years. Thanks to Moore’s Law, smartphones are becoming like feature phones€”commodity products in a commodity-driven world always looking for the next big thing. Schmidt sees Android […]

The revelation that applications running on Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhones and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android handsets lift users’ photos and contacts and post them online unbeknownst to users has a U.S. senator urging the Federal Trade Commission to look into the matter. Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) wrote in a letter to the FCC that he didn’t like […]

If HTML5 is the hot, fresh technology grab bag for Web applications, it pays for operating system makers to optimize their platforms to not only run HTML5-based apps, but run them with speed and efficiency. Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS has grabbed that crown from Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android platform, performing three times faster than Android devices in […]

In a megamerger of cloud software service providers, Cloud Sherpas and GlobalOne have joined forces to combine their expertise in installing and supporting Google Apps and Salesforce.com applications. Cloud Sherpas counts itself as among the first Google Enterprise support partners, helping more than 1,5000 businesses shuttle more than 1.5 million workers to Google Apps collaboration […]

Google’s Chrome browser adoption can be counted in the 200-plus million download range, but it helps to have big organizations embrace the browser. This is super challenging at a time Microsoft Internet Explorer remains the de facto browser for the Windows PCs that orgs and businesses buy. To wit, Google scored a coup with Chrome […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Wallet is going to be available on as many as 10 new Sprint (NYSE:S) phones in 2012, according to the creator of the mobile payment service. Wallet is an application users may download from Google’s Android Market. The program works in concert with near-field communication (NFC) sensors, allowing users to tap and pay […]

Mobile device management software makers continue to find interesting ways to slice and dice information related to the burgeoning bring-your-own-device, or BYOD, trend in the corporate workplace. Enter Zenprise, which found out that Facebook, Angry Birds and Web browsers were blocked or closely monitored for malicious activity on smartphones and tablets used by some of […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) mobile ad revenue will top $4.5 billion in 2012, up 80 percent from $2.5 billion in 2011, according to a prominent Internet analyst. The prognostication bodes well for the company’s Android mobile operating system business, which includes smartphones and tablets. Google serves mobile search and display ads on these devices. Andy Rubin, Google […]

The European Union’s Justice Commissioner is certain Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) new product policy privacy changes violate European laws and was irked the search giant executed the changes against the protestations of data protection authorities. EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding told BBC Radio Four that she believed Google’s changes violate European data laws by failing to consult […]