Clint Boulton

The European Commission is doing its due diligence in its investigation of Google’s search-engine practices with a questionnaire to advertisers asking whether Google manipulated search results to promote its own Web services. We learned in early December Europe’s antitrust arm was investigating Google, but thanks to The New York Times, we now know the commission […]

eWEEK started the new year by skewering the popular, but quite speculative notion that Google could become a phone carrier, offering these five reasons why this wouldn’t happen. To say nothing about the costs associated with such a move, we believe incumbent carriers, Congress, privacy advocates, consumers and an already competitive market would preclude this […]

Demand and expectations are indeed high for tablet computers that aren’t branded iPad, according to reports from component makers out of Taiwan. Digitimes reported that Quanta Computer has begun producing 1 million Research In Motion PlayBook tablets for the first quarter, underscoring pent-up demand for the enterprise-oriented tablet. The news Website also cited industry sources […]

Motorola’s Atrix 4G was unveiled less than two weeks ago, but the dual-core handset served by AT&T now has a March 1 landing date. Android Central uncovered this leaked internal AT&T screen showing March 1 as the launch date for the device. That would mesh would AT&T’s promised to launch it in the first quarter […]

Against extraordinary odds, Wikipedia turned 10 years old Jan. 15, celebrating a decade of providing free information about almost any topic conceivable. Wikipedia, managed by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, launched by Jimmy Wales in 2001 as a project to allow volunteer editors to contribute information for free. The Website has lured more than 400 million […]

Mozilla released its new Firefox 4 browser beta to the public Jan. 14, offering a new look with an emphasis on speed for users to play with on Windows, Mac and Linux. Performance enhancements rev up start-up time, page-loading and accelerate Web application and games. Mozilla’s Kraken performance benchmark shows it to be more than […]

Google said it would not support H.264 as a baseline video codec standard for HTML video because it refuses to accept the licensing requirements imposed by H.264 proprietor MPEG LA. Google Jan. 11 dropped a bombshell on the video content industry when it said it would no longer support H.264 in future versions of its […]

Most high-tech analysts in the free world agree the CMDA-based Verizon iPhone 4 will impede both AT&T’s iPhone sales and the growth of Google Android handsets on Verizon Wireless’ network. Few agree, however, on just how much Android will be affected. EWEEK found some analysts who have some insight into the Verizon iPhone speculation. Gleacher […]

Google got bolder with its Google Apps service-level agreement Jan. 14, removing the clause that allows for scheduled downtime for its Web-based collaboration software and promising to give customers credit for any downtime. Moreover, the SLA has been improved so that any intermittent downtime of these e-mail and document applications is counted, according to Google […]

Google completed the 2010 campaign with 66.6 percent search share, tying its highest ever stake in the market as rivals Yahoo and Microsoft Bing failed to make headway versus the leader. ComScore said Jan. 14 Google’s share was up from 66.2 percent in November. Microsoft grew search share to 12 percent from 11.8 percent, while […]

Google’s $700 million acquisition of ITA Software may be halted by the U.S. Justice Department, which is reportedly preparing for a possible antitrust lawsuit to put the kibosh on the deal. ITA’s software helps airlines, search engines and online travel companies organize flight information, including flight times, availability and prices. Sources familiar with the matter […]

Yes, there will be a Google mobile payments system. It’s now a matter of when, not if. A week ago, BusinessWeekBloomberg said Google is building a payment and ad service consumers would use to buy goods from their Android handsets. The service is powered by near field communications short-range wireless technology, which will let users […]