Clint Boulton

Google’s hiring of the spurned Java creator James Gosling could be a brilliant tactical move for the search engine as it defends its Android castle in court. Gosling claimed not to know what he would be working on at Google, writing in his blog March 28: “I don’t know what I’ll be working on. I […]

Google March 29 upgraded its Google Commerce Search service to version 3.0, adding instant search technology and other tools to improve consumers’ search experience on retailers’ Websites. Google introduced Google Commerce Search in November 2009 to let online retailers power their online stores with the search engine’s technology rather than using their own proprietary search […]

Google has reportedly tapped phone maker LG to build an Android 3.0, or “Honeycomb,” for the search engine’s Nexus brand, which has been accorded to two smartphone lines to date. Citing a report from Russian blog Mobile Review, Boy Genius Report said the Nexus tablet would be used as Google’s base for development when it’s […]

Color, the mobile picture-sharing application that launched with the controversial financial backing of $41 million last week, might have some usability issues in the early going but it’s the type of cutting-edge company Facebook, Google and Apple love to acquire. Similar to startups such as Path or Instagram, Color lets users take photos or video […]

Further details have emerged regarding Google’s mobile-payment plans for Android smartphones, which includes using near-field communication technology. Google is working with credit card providers MasterCard and Citigroup to let consumers make purchases by waving their smartphones at point-of-sale terminals made by VeriFone Systems, the Wall Street Journal said. The service, which involves embedding chips, software […]

Google’s Slide unit, which is allowed like YouTube to run autonomously within the company, has created a group messaging app for Apple’s iPhone. Called Disco, the minimalistic app offers group text messaging like Facebook’s Beluga, GroupMe and several others, as discovered by TechCrunch. Users create a single number that everyone in their group can message […]

Waving network neutrality as its championing cause, Google likes to talk about federated data shuttling from network pipes airwaves to users’ computers and mobile phones. But what does this mean from the consumer standpoint? Google Goggles is a great example of an application that will provide greater value for users with the facilitation of speedier, […]

Google March 24 sewed up six security holes in its Chrome Web browser with an upgrade to the stable and beta channels for Chrome 10.0.648.204 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. The search engine, which in this upgrade also added support for the browser’s password manager on Linux and fortified Chrome’s performance and stability, […]

Amazon.com launched its Amazon Appstore for Android applications March 22, and while it’s tempting to speculate that the store foreshadows an Android tablet or smartphone, both the company and industry analysts say this isn’t necessarily the case. Amazon Appstore for Android hosts more than 4,000 applications, each of which users may test on a simulated […]

Google is roiling the open-source waters by declining to release its Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” operating system to independent developers so it can polish the code. Google’s usual modus operandi is to seed Android device makers with source code to build products, and then release the code to open source for developers to play with a […]

When I first flipped on the HTC Thunderbolt and heard its little signature shout-out, I laughed. The crash of thunder accompanied by the lightning bolt graphic caught me by surprise. It’s pretentious, right? The phone launches, not with a geeky Droid pronouncement, but with one of the most terrifying sounds nature can muster. Guess what? […]

Asus March 25 unveiled the Eee Pad Transformer, a convertible tablet and the computer maker’s first slate based on Google’s Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” operating system. The Eee Pad Transformer will compete with Motorola Mobility’s Xoom and other Honeycomb tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and 10.1, which will launch in June. Like the […]