Clint Boulton

Google made its smart inbox software feature for Gmail smarter and faster Dec. 6, responding to users’ requests. Gmail Priority Inbox is an opt-in feature that lets users designate some messages as more important than others at a time when users are buckling under the weight of e-mail overload. The tool looks at whom a […]

This goes out to all of you who think I’m an unabashed Google non-basher. There’s been a lot of talk in the last two weeks about the Google Me social network layer cake Google refuses to confirm but everyone knows is coming in 2011. I’ve steered clear because most of it dealt with silly semantics […]

SAP is trying to do something interesting and challenging, facilitating its real-time collaboration play in the wake of Google Wave’s own disastrous crash. The business software maker Dec. 6 took its StreamWork application up a few notches, delivering it to enterprises both in the cloud and via an on-premise solution; putting it in the Google […]

Motorola is launching an Android tablet based on Google’s next-generation Android operating system, code-named Honeycomb, which will be optimized for tablets. Google Android creator Andy Rubin demonstrated the device Dec. 6 on stage at the D: Dive into Mobile show in San Francisco. The thin, light-looking machine appeared to be closer to the 9.7-inch screen […]

Computers running Google’s Chrome Operating system won’t ship to consumers until the second half of 2011, with netbooks slated to come from Samsung and Acer at that time. Google is instead making unbranded, Chrome OS-based netbooks available to qualified users, developers, schools and businesses that want to test it and provide Google feedback on how […]

Analysts believe Google’s eBooks service could shake up the market Amazon and others have cultivated if Google chooses to create an ad-supported media cloud storefront where consumers procure TV, books and eventually music. Google eBooks and the corresponding eBookstore launched Dec. 6 to let consumers search for and access more than 2 million public domain […]

Facebook Revamps Profile Pages to Highlight Photos, Tell People’s Stories by Clint Boulton Facebook Facebook has made several changes to its social network design in the last 12 months, upgrading news feeds and improving photo upload speed and functionality. Today’s profile redesign marks the first time in awhile in which Facebook has altered those pages. […]

Google introduced its Android 2.3 platform SDK Dec. 6, with plans to release the Gingerbread platform to open source in a few weeks. Gingerbread, as the platform is codenamed, is featured on the forthcoming Samsung Nexus S smartphone. The handset is launching Dec. 16 online from T-Mobile and from Best Buy stores for $199 with […]

Google Android chief Andy Rubin graced the stage at Dive: Dive into Mobile Dec. 6, talking all things mobile with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Rubin, whose team launched the Samsung Nexus S earlier in the day, said 172 phones are now running Android, an amazing number of gadgets for a platform less than 3 […]

Samsung Nexus S Smartphone Shows Off Android 2.3, Gaming, Multimedia, NFC by Clint Boulton Display The Nexus S sports a 4-inch, Super AMOLED screen Samsung has popularized in its Galaxy S line. It’s powered by 1 GHz Hummingbird processor with 16GB of internal memory. Contour The Contour display uses a thin-profile glass panel. The Nexus […]

Ding dong, the Google Groupon deal is dead, the wicked Google Groupon deal is dead. La la la, la, la, la. Google has purchased 42 companies in 2010, including Phonetic Arts and Widevine Friday, but for the second year in a row Google whiffed on locking up a popular Internet startup that would have beefed […]

Google Dec. 6 formally introduced the Samsung Nexus S, the first smartphone fitted with the long-awaited Android 2.3 operating system. Google said the smartphone, which has a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen like the members of the popular Samsung Galaxy S family, will be available Dec. 16 online from T-Mobile for $199 with a two-year service […]