Clint Boulton

Google is well known for its collegiate roots, hatched as it was by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University back in the late 1990s. So it’s only fitting that PageRank, the defining algorithm that set Google apart from Overture, Yahoo, Microsoft and many others to date, is being applied at another university. […]

More searchers prefer Google search results to remain impersonal rather than personalized, according to a small sample of 400 U.S. Internet users. AYTM Market Research asked Web users if they liked the idea of personalized search results, which is a particularly poignant question at this stage in Google’s evolution. Some 45.4 percent of respondents said […]

Among the many pearls of wisdom from Forrester Research’s new report on the impact of mobile technologies in the business world, is the notion that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) will provide the software platforms for more than 90 percent of smartphones and tablets worldwide. That leaves little room for enterprise mobility stalwart […]

Hours after the European Commission OK’d Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI), the Department of Justice followed suit, granting the search engine permission to buy the Android OEM. The DOJ also extended its blessing to the controversial acquisition of Nortel patents by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM), a […]

Anyone who reads this blog knows I’m a pretty faithful follower of John Battelle’s own Search Blog. Battelle sparked an interesting conversation about the mobile ad opportunities voice search technologies, such as Google Voice Actions and Apple’s Siri virtual assistant, offer. Battelle wrote: “Driving into work yesterday, I realized how useful voice search is going […]

Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) is nothing if not loyal to its signature Droid smartphone, cranking out two iterations of the Android handset since July 2011. While the Droid 3 boasted a 1GHz dual-core processor and a fifth row of keys dedicated to numbers, Motorola has upped the ante for the new Droid 4, which Verizon Wireless […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) jumped a crucial regulatory hurdle Feb. 13, as the European Commission approved the company’s $12.5 billion acquisition bid for Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) because it did not believe the deal would pose antitrust concerns in the mobile market. Google in August 2011 agreed to buy Motorola for $40 per share in cash, a 63 […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) equivalent of a unicorn is not looking so mythical anymore, as the search engine is reportedly set to launch its long-rumored cloud storage service this year. Google Drive will launch in the coming weeks or months, according to the The Wall Street Journal, whose report Feb. 10 rekindled an annual rumor that began […]

Chrome for Android Chrome for Android is available for free in Google’s Android Market now. However, it can only be used with the new Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android.Art: Chrome AM Sign-In You’ll want to sign into the app with your Google account, which enables bookmark and other synching capabilities. Controls A brief intro […]

Meet the Droid 4 The Droid 4 begins like the other Droids in physical appearance. This device has a 4-inch thin-film transistor (TFT) LCD display with a 540 x 960 resolution. Bringing Up the Rear The device has an 8-megapixel camera on back, paired with a 1.3MP shutter in the front for video chat. The […]