Clint Boulton

Twitter for Android, available in Google’s Android Market for Android 2.1 and later devices, received another redesign as the application has rocketed in use of late. Aiming to make Twitter for Android more consistent with the experience of other Twitter apps, the microblog service has refreshed the app in the name of convenience and efficiency. […]

Now that Verizon Wireless is selling Apple’s iPhone 4, pundits are pontificating on just what the launch will mean for Google’s Android operating system, which overtook iOS in smartphone market share in 2010. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said the Verizon iPhone will score a palpable hit on Android, stealing 1 million units from the […]

So I was reading AllThingsDigital reporter Ina Fried’s live blog notes of Nokia’s blockbuster, bet-the-company play to put all of its chips on Microsoft Windows Phone 7. We knew this was coming, especially after Google telegraphed it with Vic Gundotra’s “two turkeys don’t make an eagle: smackdown. My BS detector was set to high alert […]

The Facebook phones are coming, unofficially. INQ Mobile unveiled its INQ Cloud Touch and INQ Cloud Q handsets, two Android 2.2 smartphones created for people who use Facebook as their main mode of communication. These are the Facebook phones that have been rumored to be in development for the last several months. For the record, […]

Yahoo Feb. 10 revealed it is crafting Livestand, a personalized, digital newsstand for tablet computers such as Apple’s iPad and smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone and those based on Google’s Android operating system. Livestand pushes fresh content from Yahoo’s own Sports, News, Finance, Flickr, omg!, and the Yahoo Contributor Network properties, as well as content […]

Rumors have been swirling about what measures Nokia CEO Stephen Elop will undertake to douse his so-called “burning platform,” which is how he alleged characterized Symbian and the app ecosystem in a memo to his soldiers. Tech watchers have been speculating since Elop left Microsoft for Nokia that he could pick Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 […]

Google, Facebook and others continue to be interested in buying Twitter, a microblog service whose value increased with the introduction of ads linked to short messages in 2010. Google and Facebook, whose rivalry has grown more intense as the social network has lured eyeballs from the search giant, have reportedly broached the notion of acquiring […]

Facebook bested Web giants Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in time spent online in the United States through 2010, with users spending 12.7 percent of their time at the social network Website. Facebook users logged 49.4 billion minutes, up 79 percent from 2009, while total page views grew 71 percent to 76.8 billion, according to comScore’s […]

Google’s Android operating system saw its market share surge by nearly a factor of 10 in 2010, giving it the No. 2 slot in the smartphone market behind the struggling Nokia, according to new statistics from Gartner. Paced by Motorola’s Droid devices, Samsung’s Galaxy S line and HTC’S Desire, Incredible and Evo 4G, Android captured […]

For Google, something just went rotten in the state of the Federal Trade Commission. The Wall Street Journal said Tim Wu, a well-regarded Columbia University professor known for coining the term “network neutrality,” is joining the FTC as a “senior advisor” in the agency’s Office of Policy Planning beginning Feb. 14. That’s Valentine’s Day, but […]

Google’s Android operating system could reap $1.3 billion in mobile advertising in 2012, an analyst predicted Feb. 8 using the search engine’s own quoted figures. Using Google’s self-stated figure that its mobile ad business was operating at a $1 billion run rate through 2010, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said Google generated $850 million in […]

T-Mobile is offering all its phones for free Feb. 11 and Feb. 12, an attempt to lure users to choose any of 30 handsets based on Google’s Android, Windows Phone 7 and other platforms. While the U.S. No. 4 wireless carrier is billing the two-day offer as a Valentine’s Day promotion, the move seems timed […]