Clint Boulton

Android fans bask in the glow of the platform’s 33 percent U.S. market share, which is 8 percentage points higher than Apple’s iPhone share, according to comScore. But it’s misleading. Everyone following this space closely knows there are well over 100 phones based on Google’s operating system, compared to almost a handful of iPhones, only […]

Google April 23 confirmed it has rolled out its Google Offers Groupon clone service in Portland, Ore., offering people in that city local discount deals of 50 percent or more to restaurants, bars and other stores. The Google Offers landing page also currently invites users to sign up to receive local deals in New York […]

Engadget and gdgt Co-founder Peter Rojas added another layer to the slowly peeling meme about an Amazon tablet when he said he’s almost positive the e-commerce giant is having Samsung build a device to compete with Apple’s iPad. However, Rojas said Amazon might run a custom version of Android rather than employ Android 3.0 or […]

Google must pay $5 million in damages for infringing on a Linux patent owned by defunct company Bedrock Computer Technologies LLC, according to a jury verdict in the Eastern District of Texas court April 15. The patent is for methods and apparatus for information storage and retrieval using a hashing technique with external chaining and […]

Verizon Wireless said it will begin selling the Samsung Droid Charge 4G smartphone April 28 for $299.99 with a two-year deal from its Website and its retail stores. As the first Samsung-built phone with the Droid brand, the Droid Charge is clearly Samsung’s answer to the popular HTC ThunderBolt 4G. That speedy device has sold […]

Research in Motion may not let Google just walk away with Nortel Network’s 6,000 wireless patents for $900 million because the handset and tablet maker needs the technology more than the search engine, analysts believe. Google April 4 agreed to buy wireless networking and other technology patents from Nortel, which filed for bankruptcy in 2009 […]

Reuters reported that Apple has finished its cloud-based music service and will launch it before Google in news that should come as a shock to no one at this point. Google has been rumored to be struggling coming to terms with music labels. Some say labels are squeezing Google, while others say Google keeps changing […]

Google April 21 inked its second clean power purchase agreement, agreeing to buy 100.8 megawatts of wind energy to power its new data center in Oklahoma. Google agreed to purchase all of the energy from clean energy provider NextEra Energy Resources’ Minco II wind facility in Oklahoma for the next 20 years. Google expects its […]

Amazon.com’s wireless unit is selling the HTC Thunderbolt Android smartphone for $129.99, or nearly half off the $249.99 retail price Verizon Wireless began selling the 4G handset for in March. The catch is that interested buyers have until midnight PDT Monday, April 25, to buy the device at that price, and must agree to a […]

RockMelt April 20 launched RockMelt for iPhone, which looks to make inroads against Apple’s Safari browser by syncing favorite Websites and bookmarked Web pages with the PC and Mac desktop browser versions. RockMelt launched last November as a social Web browser that frames the browsing experience with people’s contacts from Facebook, tweet streams from Twitter […]

Anyone else think Google will become more or less acquisitive with Larry Page as CEO? Page replaced Eric Schmidt at the controls April 4. Since that time, the company only announced mobile music startup PushLife as an acquisition, but the company has $36.7 billion in cash to play with in M&A and investing in wind […]

Motorola Mobility April 19 confirmed it is delaying the launch of its Droid Bionic 4G smartphone until this summer so it can improve the device’s hardware and software. Introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show, in January, the Droid Bionic was to be Motorola’s fastest Android 2.2 smartphone to date, powered by a 1GHz Nvidia Tegra […]