Clint Boulton

Google Aug. 13 called Oracle’s patent infringement lawsuit against the search engine “baseless” and vowed to “strongly defend” open-source standards and protect its Android operating system. “We are disappointed Oracle has chosen to attack both Google and the open-source Java community with this baseless lawsuit,” a Google spokesperson told eWEEK. “The open-source Java community goes […]

Google denied flouting network neutrality principles and selling out in its broadband policy proposal with telecommunications giant Verizon. The search engine sought to defend itself from attackers from all corners of the Web who claimed Google was not sticking to strict principles for an open Internet, which is submitted for the Federal Communications Commission to […]

File this one either under the banner of high-tech discrimination by a U.S. state or sour grapes from a company in the face of growing competition. You pick. Google, which scored a coup in securing the city of Los Angeles as a Google Apps customer, feels left out of a $60 million e-mail contract with […]

Twitter Aug. 12 introduced its much anticipated Tweet Button for Websites to install and let users share links directly from the Web page they’re viewing. When users click the Tweet Button, a Tweet box will appear prepopulated with a shortened link that points to the item that users wish to share with their Twitter followers. […]

Oracle Aug. 12 sued Google for patent and copyright infringement over Google’s use of Java in its open-source Android operating system. Oracle, which purchased Sun Microsystems and renamed it Oracle America in January, accused Google of infringing seven Java patents and other copyrights. Sun has stockpiled thousands of patents for the last 15 years but […]

Sony Ericsson, maker of the Xperia X10 Android handset that is launching on AT&T’s network Aug. 15, is building a gaming platform based on Android. Sony Ericsson did not respond to eWEEK’s request for comment, but Engadget, which broke the news, said the platform comprises a device running Google’s Android 3.0 operating system (code-named Gingerbread). […]

Droid 2 Joins Droid X, HTC Incredible, in Verizon Line by Clint Boulton Droid 2 The Droid 2 is a highly anticipated new Android device from Verizon and Motorola, brushing up on the original Droid. New Keyboard Droid 2 features a new “symmetrical keyboard with raised keys for more responsive typing,” according to Verizon. Android […]

Google put Apple’s Siri and startups such as Vlingo on notice with Voice Actions for Android, an extension of Google’s voice-search technology that lets users speak commands into their smartphone to browse the Web, send texts and make calls. Users of smartphones running Android 2.2 can tap the microphone button on the Google search box […]

Sprint said it will begin selling its Android 2.1-based Epic 4G on Aug. 31 for $249 after a $100 mail-in rebate with a two-year contract. Powered by a Samsung 1 GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird processor, the Epic 4G is one of four high-end smartphones from Samsung’s Galaxy S lineup, which includes a handset for each […]

Google launched Gesture Search in March and the tool has proven pretty useful for people who want to search by tracing letters on an Android smartphone. Gesture Search 1.2 launched Aug. 11 with a potentially useful but really silly looking feature called the “double flip.” Users of Gesture Search can flip their phone over and […]

Google on Aug. 11 launched its Chrome 6 Web browser to beta, adding 15 percent more speed from Chrome 5 and autofill to populate Web forms on the fly as users type in their personal information. Autofill is a major must for Web browsers at a time when so many Web users are filling out […]

Where have all of the privacy watchdogs and consumer advocates gone? If tradition were holding steady they would be knocking on doors on Capitol Hill, demanding Congressional hearings in light of the advertising plans Google employees began bandying about two years ago, according to this fun, well-done expose on the machinations of the search giant’s […]