Clint Boulton

Android smartphones are mimicking the PC ecosystem by incorporating mucho preloaded applications from carriers and other partners that consumers don’t want, according to this nice piece from Ars Technica. If any of you bought or played with the HTC Evo 4G from Sprint you know what I mean. There are the Sprint TV and Sprint […]

Half of travel management professionals surveyed are using social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter to keep in touch with their corporate travelers. New research by American Express Business Travel also found that 44 percent of corporate travel professionals are also using social media to monitor and share the latest travel industry information with […]

Google July 22 said it is ramping up its build cycle for Chrome, the Web browser that will serve as the platform for running Web applications on Chrome Operating System. Chrome Program Manager Anthony LaForge said his team is establishing a new release process to speed stable Chrome releases to users every six weeks, or […]

When Google launched its Tags local business promotional service earlier this year, I expressed a little skepticism that people want to spend $25 per month for a small yellow call-out. Tags spotlights coupons, videos, Websites, menus or even custom messages to lure consumers: I wrote about the idea in April: Where is the value add? […]

Avid Android smartphone fans are busying themselves with finding out what operating system version will run on new devices, and it seems the Motorola Droid 2 will launch with Android 2.2, or Froyo. If this report and screenshot from Droid Life are accurate, the highly-anticipated progeny of the original popular Droid is shipping with Froyo […]

AOL July 22 moved to shore up its mobile offerings, launching two Google Android applications and opening a new smartphone portal and mobile Website. The company, which is working hard to transform into an Internet-content provider, is making a big bet on mobile to compete for eyeballs with Google, Facebook and Twitter. Many users are […]

Facebook on July 21 reached 500 million users and commemorated the milestone by launching an application that lets users share stories about how Facebook has impacted their lives. As reported earlier by eWEEK, Facebook Stories lets users read how people leveraged the social networking Website to do anything from find long-lost friends or start grassroots […]

Twitter on July 21 said it is building a data center in Salt Lake City to load up on servers and other gear that will help it eliminate the notorious outages that have plagued the microblog. The company, racked by service availability issues since the Website became popular in 2008, is in the process of […]

Microsoft made good on a partnership it inked with Yahoo almost a year ago, seeding organic and paid search listings for up to 25 percent of Yahoo’s search traffic in the U.S. Microsoft last July agreed to power Yahoo’s search engine and pay the company 88 percent of traffic acquisitions costs for the first five […]

Asustek Computer, maker of the Eee PC netbooks running Microsoft Windows that have been hot sellers among consumers, has said it is choosing Google’s Android platform over Windows for a tablet computer. Asus officials told German blog Netbook News that Asus will eschew Windows for Android in its EP101TC pad, painting a potentially bleak picture […]

Thirty-eight states, led by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, have asked Google whether it intended to have its Street View software collect data from unsecured wireless computer networks. Blumenthal-who has aggressively defended Connecticut against perceived threats to consumer privacy regarding social networks such as Facebook and MySpace-threatened to sue the company if he does not […]

Roughly 14 million to 24 million American citizens still lack access to broadband and prospects for deploying high-speed Internet quickly are bleak, according to a July 20 report from the Federal Communications Commission. The broadband dearth is particularly dire in poor or rural areas, impeding the creation of new jobs and stimulation of economic growth, […]