Clint Boulton

Several U.S. senators Jan. 26 fired off a bipartisan letter to Google CEO Larry Page, asking for more information about the search engine provider’s revised privacy policy. Google Jan. 24 announced that it will aggregate 60 of its Web services under one single privacy policy. Under this new policy, a user with a Google account […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) continued its wholesale integration of Google+ with its existing applications, launching Google Earth 6.2 with the capability to let users share their virtual images with their contacts on the social network. Google Earth 6.2 includes the option to let users share a screenshot of their current Google Earth image, as well as images […]

Owing to write-off costs from its impending acquisition by Google, Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) Jan. 27 reported a net loss of $80 million for the fourth quarter 2011 on 27 cents earnings per share (EPS), compared to a profit of $80 million for Q4 2010. The Android phone and tablet maker’s revenues for the quarter totaled […]

1) Front View Here is the Spectrum and its 4.5 inches of touch-screen real estate. Note the three Android control buttons under the LG logo. From left to right, there is a settings button, the home button and a back button. They’re not virtual, but they lie under the Gorilla Glass. As a consequence, you […]

Google is providing two new perks for Google Music users, including the ability to shuttle their tracks from the music locker and share YouTube videos. Users have been able to upload up to 20,000 songs to the Google Music locker and play them on their Android smartphone or tablet since the full, non-beta service launched […]

It’s no secret it behooves Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) to support efforts to make the Web faster, as a faster Web means the company can serve more searches, YouTube videos and other content. Google, which built a Domain Name System to help Web pages load faster, is looking at other ways of accelerating data packets traversing the […]

Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire helped power market share for tablets based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system to 39 percent market share for the fourth quarter of 2011, up from 29 percent a year ago. Global tablet shipments reached an all-time high of 26.8 million units in Q4 2011, up 150 percent from 10.7 million […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) philanthropic arm Jan. 25 expanded its crisis response work with a platform that brings users localized emergency alerts to Google Maps when users are searching for information on inclement weather and natural disasters. Google Public Alerts will provide emergency information during hurricanes, earthquakes, floods and wildfires, among other crises. The alerts will tell […]

The Verge founder Josh Topolsky both marveled at and lamented the sheer volume of smartphones, tablets and other consumer devices trotted out at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. Topolsky hosted a panel where he pressed Samsung and HTC marketing executives on “whether or not technology manufacturers were simply producing too many gadgets, outpacing real consumer […]

Ever since Facebook Product Director Blake Ross unveiled his Don’t Be Evil bookmarklet, which uses Google’s search indexes to show what Google Search, plus your world would look like if it included results from Facebook, Twitter and other sources, the tech world has been waiting for Google to respond. There will be no response, at […]

Paced by the iPhone 4S, Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS platform accounted for 71 percent of total activations overall, with Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system garnering the remaining 29 percent share, according to data collected by Good Technology from its enterprise customers. Good makes mobile device management software for enterprises, helping IT administrators provision and manage handsets […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is folding 60 of its 70 existing product privacy policies under one blanket policy and breaking down the identity barriers between some of its services to accommodate its new Google+ social network software. Google’s streamlining comes as regulators in the United States and Europe have criticized Google, Facebook and other Web service providers […]