Clint Boulton

AT&T said it will begin selling the LG Thrive and LG Phoenix, prepaid and post-paid Android 2.2 smartphones, respectively, at its U.S. stores April 17. The Thrive and Phoenix, two of what AT&T pledged would be more than a dozen Android gadgets launching this year, are the same smartphone. Both devices feature a 600MHz processor, […]

Google and Microsoft Bing added search market share through March, with Google growing from 65.4 percent share in February to 65.7 percent share in March, comScore found. Bing continued its rise up the search charts, netting 13.9 percent share, up from 13.6 percent the prior month. Bing boasts the highest quarter-over-quarter gain, growing from 11.8 […]

Google April 11 said it put $168 million into a solar energy power plant BrightSource Energy is building in California’s Mojave Desert, easily the search engine’s largest investment in clean energy to date. Clean energy-also known as sustainable, renewable and green energy-includes hydroelectricity, solar energy, wind energy, wave power, geothermal energy, bioenergy and tidal power. […]

Google April 12 trumpeted the fact that its Google Docs now has pagination, which lets users see visual pages on their screen similar to the way people have been doing via the Microsoft Word word processing app for two decades. When users edit their documents in Docs they’ll see visual page breaks while users are […]

Google April 11 took its so-called Panda search algorithm upgrade global to emphasize high-quality Websites over lower-quality destinations, and added signals based on user feedback to improve results. Google has been taking a lot of flak for surfacing too many spammy, irrelevant results, particularly from content farms that exist as traffic bait and offer little […]

Fresh off its Thunderbolt 4G launch on Verizon Wireless, HTC introduced the Sensation 4G, a Google Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” smartphone whose highlight is a video-on-demand service. The HTC Sensation 4G is a premium smartphone, which means it is geared to go toe-to-toe with Apple’s iPhone. Like the Sprint Evo 3D, the handset sports a 4.3-inch […]

Microsoft has uncovered details in a court filing that it claims proves Google has been lying to the Justice Department about achieving a government certification for its Google Apps collaboration software. Google denied the allegation and claimed that Microsoft is trying to create a smokescreen for the fact that it doesn’t have the Federal Information […]

Google is expected to announce earnings of $6.31 billion and earnings per share of $8.13 when it reports first quarter earnings April 14, 10 days after Larry Page began his second stint as CEO at the search engine. Jefferies and Co. analyst Youssef Squali said he expects Google to meet or slightly beat expectations, thanks […]

Ever since Google launched its Facebook Like +1 recommendation button, super smart people have weighed in with a number of suggestions on what Google needs to do to succeed in social, especially now that we realize the +1 button isn’t the answer even if it could be a nice monetization boost. Talk intensified after Larry […]

Google, long rumored to be creating a Web-based music service to compete with Apple and now Amazon.com, confirmed it has purchased mobile music startup PushLife for about $25 million. “We are excited to welcome the PushLife team to Google. We believe the team has a wealth of experience building cool mobile applications, and we think […]

Compared with the meteoric rise of Apple’s iPad, tablet computers based on Google’s Android operating system have started slow out of the gate. However, new research from Gartner finds Android tablets will saturate the market enough to help the platform command 40 percent market share by 2015, up from 20 percent through 2011. That’s second […]

For those questioning Salesforce.com’s $326 million purchase bid for social media monitor Radian6 last month, stop and consider the accelerated market landscape. The enterprise social software market has evolved to the point where niche markets within the sector, which Gartner said could hit $769 million this year, are seeing consolidation. There are several companies like […]