Clint Boulton

T-Mobile USA Feb. 2 released more information about the LG G-Slate and Samsung Galaxy S 4G devices it plans to offer soon and took some shots at the Verizon Wireless iPhone 4 slated for launch next week. T-Mobile formally introduced the Galaxy S 4G two weeks ago at a media event in New York City, […]

Google Feb. 1 capped a public smear campaign that backfired by claiming that Microsoft’s Bing team is indeed cheating by copying its results for some Web search queries. Google last summer looked at the search results for an unusual misspelled query, torsorophy. Google returned the correct spelling — tarsorrhaphy — along with results for the […]

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab isn’t selling quite as well as the company and media have initially portrayed, a company official acknowledged. Moreover, there is some evidence that the 7-inch tablets based on Google’s Android operating system are making a round trip from retailers to consumers and back. Lee Young-hee said that the 2 million Tabs the […]

Google’s Android operating system continued to be the hit of the U.S. smartphone world, accounting for 43 percent of smartphone shipments from July 2010 to December 2010. Nielsen said Feb. 1 that Apple iOS was on 26 percent of smartphones shipped over the last six months, whole Research in Motion’s Blackberry tallied 20 percent of […]

Google and Twitter have teamed up to create a speak-to-tweet service for citizens in Egypt, where the Internet has gone dark. Tweeting via speech is simple and requires no Internet connection. Users may tweet by calling (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and leaving a voice mail message. The service will blast out the tweet using […]

A vice president for Microsoft’s Bing team denied configuring the Bing algorithm to copy Google search results in an effort to boost search market share. What Bing does use is “clickstream,” or customer data from its Bing toolbar to improve its search results, said Harry Shum, corporate vice president of core search development at Microsoft. […]

Google’s Chrome Web browser continued to grow through the first month of 2011, reaching 10.7 percent market share through January, up from 10 percent through December 2010. Researcher Net Applications also noted that Apple’s Safari rose to 6.3 percent from 5.9 percent over the same period. This is perhaps indicative of record sales the computer […]

Google spent $5.2 million in lobbying in 2010, up almost one-third from the $4 million it spent in all of 2009. Per usual, the company paid to curry support for online advertising regulation, patent reform, cyber-security and online privacy, renewable energy, freedom of expression and censorship, tax reform, free trade, Internet service usage rules, and […]

Google and the Justice Department are discussing ways to resolve a potential antitrust lawsuit regarding the search engine’s $700 million offer for ITA Software, according the published reports. The Wall Street Journal and Reuters said the DOJ has tabled a compulsory licensing arrangement that would prevent Google from blocking competitors’ access to ITA’s flight fare […]

Google’s Android operating system became the world’s leading smartphone platform, accounting for 33.3 million of the 101.2 million smartphones shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter 2010, according to researcher Canalys. Canalys, which crunched smartphone shipments across North America, Asia Pacific, EMEA and Latin America, said Android edged the struggling Nokia, which sold 31 million units […]

Google Jan. 31 said it is refining the search capabilities in its Google Docs document software to help users find the myriad files they create and store in the company’s cloud-computing system. The enhancements are all geared toward making Docs a more serious collaboration software play as the company seeks to pit Google Apps against […]

The Wall Street Journal uncovered something that isn’t exactly a bombshell in the wake of Google’s announcement last week that it would hire more than 6,200 people in 2011: Many of them will be mobile-application developers. The Journal noted: “Google Inc. plans to hire dozens of software developers to create applications for smartphones and other […]