Clint Boulton

Motorola Mobility will begin selling its WiFi-only Motorola Xoom tablet March 27 for $599 at Best Buy, Costco, RadioShack, Sam’s Club, Staples and Walmart, and online at Amazon.com. The 32GB Xoom WiFi, which is price-equivalent to Apple’s new WiFi-only, 32GB iPad 2, will also be available to commercial IT channels and regional retailers through a […]

When it comes to ways to make money from online advertising, Google can never be accused of not being platform agnostic. The search engine’s AdMob group has to date fueled more than 50,000 mobile applications on Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS and HP’s webOS platforms, helping the company to 60 percent of the mobile ad market […]

YouTube, which is in the midst of a hiring spree to fuel its video platform expansion, purchased Green Parrot Pictures to boost its video processing capabilities March 15. Google’s video-sharing Website receives a lot of video each day-35 hours uploaded per minute-ranging from professional quality to really poor quality clips from amateurs using cheap video […]

Google March 16 turned its comments feature in Google Docs into a moderated social-conversation tool, adding ownership and editing privileges, timestamps and profile pictures for each comment. Google semi-socialized its Docs document, spreadsheet and presentation applications by moving comments to the sidebar and letting people reply to them in its major Docs upgrade last April. […]

Google said it is working with Microsoft to patch a hole in the Windows operating system hackers are trying to exploit to target activists, among other users. The search engine, which called the attacks “highly targeted and apparently politically motivated,” said the perpetrator(s) abuses a known vulnerability Microsoft treated with a temporary patch in late […]

Google March 15 moved to improve its Google Apps upgrade deliveries, adding a rapid release and scheduled release tracks to help IT administrators prepare for application upgrades. Google hosts Google Apps, including Google Docs, Gmail and other collaboration applications on its cloud computing infrastructure. Google’s practice has been to automatically provision upgrades for those apps […]

Google will test mobile payments at stores in New York and San Francisco, the company’s latest bid to improve the user experience on Android smartphones. Bloomberg reported March 15 that the search engine will pay to have thousands of cash registers from VeriFone Systems installed at various businesses. These sales terminals would accept payments from […]

Microsoft’s Bing search engine is testing a new technology aimed at tailoring search results to individual user’s tastes, two experimental applications that recommends news stories shared on Twitter. What Google describes as personalization Bing is calling Matchbox, which attempts to make predictions about what searchers might want to see, based on if someone like them […]

T-Mobile USA teamed with Samsung Mobile to bring back the T-Mobile Sidekick, an Android smartphone sporting a 3.5-inch display and a QWERTY keyboard on the signature pop-tilt hinge for which the Sidekick brand was famous. While the original Sidekick lacked a touchscreen, the dual-input modes of the Sidekick 4G handset are designed to appease the […]

With the bloggers writing to and fro about the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, the AndroidHD blog has scored a long, long hands-on video test of the Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” tablet, slated to go on sale from Vodafone this spring: If you’ve seen or used the Motorola Xoom, the demo won’t offer much new to you, […]

As Apple’s iPad 2 flew off shelves at Apple Stores, Best Buy and other retailers around the country, sales of its rival Motorola Mobility Xoom tablet have been weak, according to analysts’ channel checks. Verizon Wireless and Best Buy began selling the 10.1-inch Xoom Feb. 24 for $599 with a two-year contract and $799 off […]

Apple may have sold as much as 500,000 iPad 2 devices on its first day of sales March 11, or 200,000 more than the first iPad sold in its first weekend of sales last April, according to an industry analyst. Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster, who predicted before the iPad 2 went on sale that he […]