Clint Boulton

Startup Enterproid revealed itself to the enterprise mobile management market Feb. 28 with Divide, a software platform that lets corporate road warriors create and keep personal and professional profiles on one Android smartphone or tablet. Available in private beta for Android handsets and slates running version 2.2 or later, Divide lets users keep corporate data […]

Research In Motion will soon launch its PlayBook tablet, a device it expects to compete with Motorola’s Xoom Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” tablet and Apple’s iPad. But RIM’s developer ecosystem got a jolt of harsh reality by a programmer who tried to write an application for the tablet. In a long, detailed and often sarcastic blog […]

If you’re a Google Watcher, you remember how the company tried to throw a wrench into Verizon Wireless plans by bidding for 700 MHz wireless spectrum three years ago. Verizon ultimately won the auction, paying $4.7 billion for spectrum it would use to construct its 4G LTE wireless network, which is launched in December. As […]

Microsoft’s Bing search engine upgraded its Travel Price Predictors feature with an autosuggest capability for airline travel fares, a capability Google might love to offer if it succeeds in acquiring ITA Software. Bing’s travel Website–which sifts through more than a billion airfares a day to surface cheap airline tickets for traveling searchers–has added “Autosuggest Flight […]

Google confirmed that an e-mail outage left over 120,000 of its more than 150 million Gmail users without e-mail, contacts, labels and other content over the weekend. Google’s Gmail Help message boards began lighting up with pleas for help beginning Feb. 27, when one victim wrote: ” I have lost ALL on my emails/folders etc. […]

HTC Feb. 25 said it would launch the Android 2.2-based HTC Merge handset through several North American carriers as part of its spring smartphone lineup. The Merge includes a QWERTY slide-out keyboard and 3.8-inch touch-screen display running HTC’s Sense user interface. HTC offers this picture of the device. The smartphone also integrates with Exchange ActiveSync […]

The Motorola Atrix 4G, which launched earlier this month on AT&T for $199 with a two-year agreement, is a powerful smartphone that is clearly the best Android handset to grace AT&T’s lineup. Finally! I’ve been testing Verizon Wireless’ Droid phones since November 2009, and while I’ve played with a few Android gadgets at AT&T’s stores […]

Less than a month after Google accused Microsoft’s Bing search engine of copying search results, Bing revamped its toolbar with Facebook functionality that duplicates a lot what RockMelt does in its Web browser. RockMelt launched its Google Chrome-based browser in November, offering several nifty features that let users access their Facebook and other content from […]

Google Buzz, the search engine’s social conversation service, turned one year old Feb. 9, 2011, but most people wouldn’t know it without the benefit of closely following the company. Once the pinnacle of Google’s social software efforts, Buzz has been seemingly backburnered as the company undertakes the difficult process of layering social functionality across its […]

Google Feb. 24 filled another hole in its sweeping search results refinements by adding Recipe View, accessible by a button users can click in the left-hand rail to learn how to concoct meals, desserts and other comestibles. Google has offered recipe search in the traditional way, allowing users to type “veal saltimbocca,” for example, in […]

Executives from Verizon Wireless, Motorola and Google wowed the crowd at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show Jan. 6 when they demonstrated the 3D and other graphical user interface capabilities of the Xoom, which runs Google’s Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” operating system. Dubbed by the press as the Apple iPad “killer,” the Xoom saw some bumps along […]

Google Feb. 24 said it had flipped the switch on an algorithm change that pushes down low-quality Websites in its search engine, the latest in a series of moves to combat the rise of content farms and other Websites that infest the Web. The ranking change, targeted at Websites that copy content from other Websites […]