Clint Boulton

Google continued to fend off Yahoo and Microsoft Bing in July, commanding 65.8 percent of the U.S. search market share, according to comScore August 17. Google’s plot is down from a 66.2 percent share through June and its all-time high of 66.4 percent in May. Yet the share is still almost four times greater than […]

Zenprise Aug. 17 launched a new version of its MobileManager software, adding selective wipe, remote lifeline and profile features to spruce up security in Apple iPhones and iPads used by corporate employees. IT administrators use MobileManager to manage and secure smartphones and other mobile gadgets employees use for work. Zenprise defines personal devices used for […]

Adobe Aug. 16 made its Flash Player 10.1 generally available for download on the Android Market for Google Nexus One phones. For those scratching their heads because they believed Flash was already on the Nexus One, that was a beta launched to partners in June. Before that, eWEEK’s Nicholas Kolakowski tested Flash and Android 2.2 […]

Four members of U.S. Congress banded together to attack the network neutrality plan put forth by Google and Verizon, a proposal so contentious that parties from all over the Web have weighed in to denounce it. Democratic Reps. Edward Markey, Anna Eshoo, Mike Doyle and Jay Inslee wrote in a letter to Federal Communications Commission […]

Google’s launch of Voice Actions for Android forced rival Vlingo to make its comparable voice command application free for users. On Aug. 12, Google launched Voice Actions for Android, a voice-based technology that lets users speak specific commands into their Android smartphones. Users install a widget onto their home screen. When they tap it, they […]

In what has become an all-too familiar rite of technological punditry, techperts are crawling all over the latest comments from Google CEO Eric Schmidt about the future of search being more predictive, pretty much telling people what they want before they know they want it. You know the story. Google has some Matrix- or Inception-like […]

Some 93 million Web users went to Twitter.com from work or home computers in June this year, more than doubling the number of users from the same period a year ago, according to comScore. ComScore’s count of Twitter.com users excludes the millions of users who access and tweet on Twitter through third-party client applications such […]

Disaster recovery provider Continuity Software Aug. 16 upgraded its RecoverGuard product to include a Private Cloud Advisor. RecoverGuard Version 5.2’s Private Cloud Advisor provides full availability and recoverability in the private cloud, or pool of shared data storage. Private cloud computing is a strategy some companies employ to use secure, in-house IT services via virtualized […]

iPhone Tops Android in Enterprise Security, Management by Clint Boulton Baseline Comparing security and management for the iPhone iOS4 and Android 2.2 is tough, largely because the iPhone is a proprietary platform, while Android is open source. Moreover, there are shades of gray within the various categories and different degrees of support. Here is a […]

Google confirmed that it acquired Jambool, whose Solid Gold platform provides a virtual currency service for providers of online games and others who want to put payment options in their applications. TechCrunch broke the news Aug. 9, saying the deal was worth $70 million. Jambool and Google confirmed the deal Aug. 13. Jambool’s Solid Gold […]

Google is reportedly in talks with PayPal to offer the e-commerce payment platform as an option for purchasing applications through the Android Market. PayPal, the popular payment service that sports 87 million accounts, would join Google Checkout and credit cards as payment options in the Android Market, which offers applications for smartphones based on Google’s […]

Oracle’s patent infringement suit versus Google over Android aside, product development on Android continues unabated. Asustek Computer, whose Windows XP-based Eee PC netbooks are popular in the United States and abroad, will launch its first Android tablet in March, Asus CEO Jerry Shen said. PCWorld said Asus’ first Android tablet will feature the Eee Pad […]