Clint Boulton

“Do Not Track” presents some interesting obstacles for Internet giants that rely on Web advertising, with Google poised to be significantly impacted in the display ad market. A quick refresher: Do Not Track will allow Internet users to add a Do Not Track header from browsers such as Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Chrome market share may not be growing as fast as originally thought as a researcher discovered the browser’s prerendering technology may have been artificially inflating usage share. Chrome’s market share through February was about 18.9 percent, down from 18.94 percent in January and 19 1 percent in December, according to Net Applications. However, […]

Facebook Pages have gotten the Timeline user-interface treatment with the new Offers tool, a way for businesses with supporting Pages to discount and promote their products right from Pages. Facebook, which unveiled the new branding and advertising technology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City Feb. 29, also said it was […]

Toshiba Feb. 29 introduced the Excite 10 LE, a 10.1-inch tablet running Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system that will be the thinnest slate to date. The WiFi-enabled Excite 10 LE, available March 6 from U.S. retailers for $529.99 (16GB) and $599.99 (32GB), is only 7.7mm thin€”roughly the depth of the Motorola Droid Razr […]

Tune Out The cleanest way to avoid Google’s privacy policy changes is to avoid Google altogether. Think you can do it? Good luck. Bing It While Google gets more than 1 billion searchers, it’s not the only search engine available. You can go to Microsoft’s Bing or Yahoo, which is powered by Bing. Microsoft has […]

850K and Counting That’s the number of Android devices that have been activated, according to Rubin, who played up that stat and others in a Feb. 27 blog post. Next up: 1 million daily activations, which we expect to see by April. This Android train has momentum. 450K Apps The Android Market boasts 450,000 apps […]

Much of Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt’s keynote discussion at Mobile World Congress Feb. 28 concerned very forward-looking, sci-fi-type stuff. Sample: People will deploy robots on their behalf to conferences and concerts when they can’t be both places at once. People will experience both activities through the robot via a screen they control at home. […]

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Feb. 28 said it has improved application statistics in its Android Market to help publishers get a better handle on how users are accessing and interacting with their applications. Launched nearly a year ago, application statistics make up a set of dashboards in the developer console that shows publishers’ installation download numbers […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) product privacy policy changes will go into effect March 1 despite protestations from regulators in the United States and Europe, which has said the alterations will violate European Union data protection rules. CNIL, the French data protection regulator tasked by the Article 29 Working Party to pore over Google’s policy changes, said Google’s […]

Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) demonstrated how Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Voice Actions speech-recognition software defeated Apple’s own Siri voice-based assistant in three video contests, pitting Motorola’s Photon 4G, Atrix 2 and Electrify versus the iPhone 4S. The videos, which show the Android phones conducting the same voice prompts alongside the iPhone 4S, are humorously couched as boxing matches, […]