Clint Boulton

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Jan. 31 assured Congress that it is changing its privacy policies to make them easier to manage and improve the company’s existing Web services for its users. “By folding more than 60 product-specific privacy policies into our main Google one, we’re explaining our privacy commitments to users of those products in 85 percent […]

Buzz that Facebook will file for an initial public offering (IPO) Feb. 1 has marketing and advertising experts expecting the social network to challenge Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) at a time when the search giant is trying to ramp up its own ad targeting efforts. While Google has commanded the market for search advertising for a decade, […]

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) isn’t a company prone to revealing unit sales for its Kindle line of e-readers and tablets, providing a constant source of consternation for analysts trying to model the e-commerce giant’s financial results. That hasn’t stopped the analysts from prognosticating based on word of mouth, and the guessing game is reaching a crescendo as […]

1) Razr Maxx Revealed The handset appears very much like its Droid Razr predecessor, which Motorola launched in November. 2) Maxx Rear View The phone has the same textured, gray back as the Razr, as well as the 8-megapixel rear and 1.3MP front cameras for photography fans. 3) Razr Maxx from the Side You’d expect […]

Motorola’s Droid Razr Maxx, on sale from Verizon Wireless for $299.99 with a two-year contract, is the first smartphone that qualifies as a power mobile data user’s best friend because it has the best battery life on an Android smartphone I’ve ever tested. The Android 2.3 Gingerbread phone offers all the features of its Droid […]

The LG Spectrum smartphone, available now from Verizon Wireless for $199.99 on contract, is the latest in a long line of multimedia-friendly Android handsets that flaunt large screens, big battery life and powerful application processing. It’s quite possible, this Android 2.3 Gingerbread 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) smartphone, powered by Qualcomm’s 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S3 […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) shelled out $1.97 billion in cash and stock for a record 79 acquisitions in 2011, the biggest of which was the company’s $676 million purchase of ITA Software. The search engine leader, which disclosed the numbers in its 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, agreed to purchase travel software maker ITA […]

Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire has managed to become the first tablet based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system to see demonstrable application usage in a short period, suggesting that the 7-inch slate has become quite the content driver for the e-commerce giant. The tablet, which only launched Nov. 15, has already matched the Samsung Galaxy […]

Danny Sullivan, the Search Engine Land head who has been dogged in his criticism of Google’s Search plus your world feature, scored a nice interview with the company’s search head, Amit Singhal. If you’ve been following the SPYW coverage, you should read it because it reveals much about the company’s mindset concerning the way it […]

Google+ is now accepting teenage members aged 13 and up in most countries, giving the social network a major demographic to target as it seeks to grow its current user base of 90 million users. Twitter and Facebook have also set 13 as the minimum age users can join their social networks, so in a […]

A nasty piece of malware called Android.Counterclank that Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) said has the highest distribution of any malware this year to date is making the rounds on Android smartphones and tablet computers. Symantec counts anywhere from 1 million to 5 million combined downloads of the malware, spanning 13 different application titles. Android.Counterclank is a variant […]

Consumers may purchase the Samsung Galaxy Nexus for $99 from Amazon Wireless for a limited time, a $200 discount, the e-commerce giant said Jan. 26. The stipulation for this deal is that consumers must sign up for a new Verizon Wireless contract, including individual or family plans. The Galaxy Nexus, which Verizon began selling Dec. […]