Clint Boulton

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) said it plans to upgrade its Google TV software by the end of the year, adding fresh content and more personalized recommendations, and maintaining its annual software upgrade schedule. “We don’t intend to stop iterating,” Rishi Chandra, director of product management for Google TV, told BusinessWeek at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Facebook have engaged in a low-key war of words, following the controversial launch of Google’s “Search, plus your world” personal search feature Jan. 10. Search, plus your world has roiled the technology industry like no product since Google Buzz, the social conversation service the company replaced with its Google+ social network. That […]

The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly expanding its antitrust probe of Google to include the company’s new “Search, plus your world” social-search feature, an effort to make users’ results more personal. Bloombergand Reuters both said Jan. 13 that the FTC is looking into the matter because it is concerned Google is providing preference to Google+ […]

MIPS Technologies had reason to be proud when earlier this month after it launched the world’s first tablet computer to run Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Indeed, even at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show this past week, it was hard to find ICS running on many tablets. I saw the latest OS […]

Ascend P1 The Ascend P1, P1 S and P1 LTE all include 4.3-inch Super AMOLED (960-by-540p) displays made of Corning’s Gorilla Glass. They are powered by 1.5GHz dual-core processors. All have 8 megapixel rear and 1.3 megapixel front cameras. P1 Side View The Ascend P1 measures a svelte 7.69 millimeters thin, challenging Motorola’s Droid RAZR. […]

Toshiba 13 Toshiba envisions this Android slate will be great for gaming and film watching, as well as video collaboration sessions for enterprise workers. It has USB 2.0, micro USB, micro HDMI ports and a full-sized SD slot for connectivity. Going forward, Dang said Toshiba plans to experiment with new tablet form factors in much […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) enhanced its capabilities for its offline Gmail Web application for Chrome, adding a settings page, better attachments functionality, keyboard shortcut support and other perks. Support for offline email is a big deal for users who need to read, respond to, organize and archive email without a Web connection. This includes some trains and […]

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) selected VMware co-founder and former CEO Diane B. Greene to its board of directors, filling the 10th seat vacated more than two years ago by Arthur Levinson. Greene, who took on the role Jan. 12, also now serves on Google’s audit committee. Greene launched VMware in 1998 and within a few years […]

Android Dances to Aigos Beat This dancing Android robot was rocking out at CES. We rank this dude as one of the best celebrity sights of the show; all apologies to Justin Bieber. Droid 4 The Motorola Droid 4 builds on the company’s existing Android-powered QWERTY slider, but adds more defined keys, which were edge-lit. […]

There’s little question now that Google has stepped into it big time with regard to Search, plus your world, the feature that personalizes search by incorporating Google+ posts and photos in users’ search results. Users who are signed in are officially sheep to Google’s supposed well-meaning shepherd, as the company guides users to a wonderful, […]