Clint Boulton

Verizon Wireless last week very quietly began selling the Motorola Droid 2 Global, a faster device than its predecessor and one that works around the world, for $199.99 with a two-year contract. Like the Motorola Droid 2 Verizon began selling in August, the Droid 2 Global is based on Android 2.2, sports a 3.7-inch, 480-by-854 […]

Royal Pingdom Nov. 19 published an interesting post about how our resident Web giants are sucking the soul out of the startup industry. Don’t like the hyperbole? Try Pingdom’s phraseology: “The problem is, no matter how brilliant your software or service may be, there’s always a cloud on the horizon. There are elephants out there, […]

One week ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt surprised we media folk at the Web 2.0 Summit with the news that Chrome Operating System was a “few months away.” Try as I might, I never did get a good reason why. Now it seems Google, after months of hyping the Chrome browser on ESPN.com and The […]

Top 10 Android Smartphones to Be Thankful for by Clint Boulton HTC Droid Incredible For the longest time, this was our favorite Android handset after it launched last spring. Seeing as how it’s the time for reflection, we dip into nostalgia to fondly remember this Android 2.1 device with a 1GHz processor. It is fast, […]

Top 10 Google Employee Defections to Facebook by Clint Boulton No Title Getting Sheryl Sandberg from Google was quite the coup for Facebook in 2008. Here is Sandberg with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the AllThingsDigital show last June. No Title Facebook CTO Bret Taylor came to the company from Google indirectly. Taylor, one of […]

Facebook.com accounted for 25 percent of page views in the United States for one week in November, up from 16.7 percent this time a year ago. The social network, which grew 60 percent from a year ago, also logged 1 in 10 U.S. Internet visits, according to researcher HitWise. Google notched 7 percent of visits. […]

Boomtown last week set the blogging world ablaze with the rumor that Google is working up the nerve to buy a local deal-making phenomenon, a startup several experts at the Web 2.0 Summit said was worth billions of dollars. Groupon, which Boomtown said Google would shell out $3 billion for, offers subscribers local daily deals […]

Google finally integrated its DocVerse acquisition and on Nov. 22 released it as Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, a free software plug-in that people can use to create Office documents and save them to Google Docs. Google Docs is the search engine’s document, presentation and spreadsheet application suite. Google stores the files users create […]

Google’s Chrome Operating System launch has been delayed, and the platform won’t be available to launch on netbooks for at least the “next few months.” Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed as much to reporters in a Q&A session at the Web 2.0 Summit Nov. 15, adding that the platform continues to be targeted for devices […]

Amazon.com reprised its 1-penny sale, offering four Verizon Wireless Droid models and more than 100 other phones for $0.01 each with a two-year contract and a $35 credit for the activation fee. The Droid Incredible, Motorola Droid X, Motorola Droid 2 and the new Motorola Droid Pro are available through Monday for $0.01 from AmazonWireless.com […]

News Analysis: When MySpace and Facebook unveiled their deal to pull Facebook profile content into MySpace, it was hard for the media to suppress a collective sardonic grin. What MySpace is doing with Mashup with Facebook is allowing the few million or so users who haven’t dropped it for Facebook to populate their MySpace Web […]

Motorola Droid Pro Is Android 2.2-based Phone Tuned for Enterprises by Clint Boulton Out of the Box Out of the box, the Droid Pro is a handsome device, encased in marbled gray and black plastic. It weighs only 4.73 ounces, or not much more than Apple’s iPhone. Heavy Metal The Pro’s case is fixed by […]