Clint Boulton

Google March 7 introduced a potentially great time-saving feature for motorists, adding the ability to route users around traffic congestion with the Google Maps Navigation turn-by-turn GPS feature. Google Maps Navigation has saved me a lot of time and stress of Googling directions and printing them out to follow. From my Droid X, I type […]

Samsung Electronics March 7 introduced the Galaxy Pro, a smartphone running Google’s Android 2.2 operating system that offers a full QWERTY keyboard and 2.8-inch touch-screen to let users access the phone by touch and type messages and e-mail. The Galaxy Pro is powered by an 800MHz chip and includes a 3.0 megapixel camera for pictures […]

Microsoft Bing partnered with Kayak March 4, marking the second consecutive week the search upstart attacked market leader Google in one of its weaker areas: travel search. Kayak will fuel flight search results in the U.S. from multiple cities, airports and airlines on Bing. This will give Bing Travel users access to a broader set […]

Google March 7 said it has purchased BeatThatQuote.com, an online price comparison Website based in the United Kingdom, for $61.2 million. The buy, which comes amid reports that Google is ramping up for large and small acquisitions this year, will give Google access to technology that helps consumers search for lower rates on services for […]

Google rarely overtly tips its hand on coming products, preferring to operate under the practice that it doesn’t preannounce new software services, but if you read enough of its 30 or so product blog posts a week you can glean some stuff. Take for example, this closing note in its Social Web blog post on […]

Google March 5 remotely removed 58 malicious applications that affected smartphones based on its Android 2.1 operating system and earlier versions-the latest of several steps to blunt the malware. Google March 1 learned of the suspicious programs, dubbed the DroidDream attacks, and removed them from the Android Markets, suspended the developer accounts responsible for them […]

Everyone wants a touch of Groupon’s magic these days, and who can blame them? Analysts see the market for coupons offered to users based on their proximity to local businesses blossoming to become a multibillion-dollar market. Google and Microsoft have bought in, so to speak, though the Internet rivals have taken markedly different paths to […]

Google’s Android development team released software that will allow applications that run with its Android 1.6 and later operating system versions to leverage the company’s Fragments technology to create user interfaces that work with tablets. This Android Compatibility Package is available now through the SDK Updater, Google developer advocate Tim Bray said in a brief […]

When Google revealed that some Gmail users were finding their messages, labels and other inbox content missing Feb. 27, the clock began ticking on the company’s cloud computing credibility. Among the most pertinent questions were how soon would the company restore access to the .08 percent of users it claimed at the time were affected […]

Apple’s iPad 2 has a few features in common with Motorola’s Xoom Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” tablet, including a dual-core processor and dual cameras. Of course, the iPad 2 is also slimmer and weighs less than the Xoom, but these may be mere trifles for consumers next to the price difference. Apple retained the same pricing […]

Motorola Mobility’s Atrix 4G is a swift Android 2.2 smartphone on AT&T’s HSPA+ network and the $199.99 price is worth it for a customer seeking a high-end Android handset, as eWEEK noted in its review. For enterprise workers, the Atrix 4G (pictured here) experience isn’t quite complete without the Motorola Laptop Dock, eWEEK learned after […]

Google March 2 has added the ability for Google Maps users to post ratings and reviews written in Hotpot on Google Places to Twitter from their Android smartphones. For example, a user rating their dinner at a restaurant or coffee and bagel at a local coffee shop can tweet their review to Twitter. Previously, users […]