Clint Boulton

In the most bullish estimate for Google’s Android platform yet, Gartner said the open-source operating system would grab 49 percent worldwide market share by 2012. That compares with IDC and ABI Research’s estimates that Android will capture 45 percent market share in the next four to five years. Gartner said Android would finish 2011 with […]

Congress held an antipiracy hearing April 6, in which Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of a U.S. House Judiciary subcommittee that is investigating Web sites accused of pirating intellectual property said: “The question isn’t what Google has done. But more about what Google has left to do.” CNET noted that he then accused Google of allowing […]

Samsung said it will begin selling a WiFi-only version of its Galaxy Tab 7.0 April 10 for $349, or a couple hundred dollars less than what U.S. carriers began selling the Android tablet computer for on contract. Samsung currently lists CompUSA as the only brick-and-mortar retailer slated to begin selling the Tab next week, with […]

Yesterday I noted Baird’s report that fragmentation in the Android platform is making some developers nervous. If developers can’t publish their applications to the Android Market, fragmentation is kind of a moot point. The Android Developer Console, the content management application that lets developers publish their apps to the Android Market, has been experiencing outages […]

Sprint’s Boost Mobile said it will sell the Samsung Galaxy Prevail smartphone for $179 without a contract, marking the prepaid brand’s first CDMA Android handset. Running Android 2.2, the Prevail has a 3.2-inch touch screen and a 2 megapixel camera with video capability, a departure from today’s high-end smartphones boasting 4-inch-plus screens, 8 megapixel cameras […]

Google’s security team has launched a new feature for the Chrome Web browser that protects users from Websites that exist to shuttle malware to users’ computers. If users try to download what Chrome suspects is a malicious Microsoft Windows executable file, they will see a warning notifying them that the file appears to be malicious […]

As eWEEK noted via Bloomberg April 5, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is mulling a broad antitrust investigation of Google’s search business. However, the FTC could also compete with the Justice Department on a broader probe of Google. After all, the DOJ’s case against Microsoft made or burnished many careers and the FTC and DOJ […]

Google has shown a penchant for refining its mobile strategy around the intersection of social and location and the trend continued April 4 in the refreshed Google Maps 5.3 app for Android. Google Maps 5.3 for Android now lets Google Latitude users check-in at home from their smartphone and access their Google Location History dashboard. […]

Google’s Android operating system is pacing the U.S. smartphone market with 33 percent share, so clearly consumers are buying millions of phones that Motorola, Samsung, HTC and others are pumping out. However, gross fragmentation in the Android platform and overall ecosystem has some developers nervous, according to a survey of 250 developers conducted by Baird […]

Conspiracy theorists believe the departure of Jonathan Rosenberg, Google senior vice president for product management, the same day company co-founder Larry Page assumed the CEO role is more than just an amicable coincidence. Skeptics believe Rosenberg’s exit is tied to the fact that Page is rumored to have overhauled and streamlined the management structure to […]

Switzerland’s top administrative court supported the country’s Federal Data Protection Commissioner Hanspeter Thuer in agreeing that Google Street View map service infringes on privacy. Street View provides 360° horizontal and 290° vertical panoramic street-level views of 100-plus cities all over the world. The service has since May 2010 been vilified the world over for collecting […]

While the European Commission has scrutinized Google’s search engine business for anticompetitive practices since last November, U.S. regulators have watched from a distance. Now, it appears the U.S. is getting ready to make its own play to hound Google. Bloomberg cited two anonymous sources claiming the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is mulling a broad antitrust […]