Clint Boulton

The use of the term “fragmentation” to describe Google’s Android operating system has no merit because people can’t agree what the term means, according to an Android developer. In a June 1 post on the Android developer’s blog, Dan Morrill, open source and compatibility program manager for Google Android, said he remembered first seeing the […]

Review: Sprint will begin selling the Google Android 2.1-based HTC Evo 4G smartphone for $199 with a two-year contract June 4 ($100 mail-in rebate), just a few days before Apple is expected to launch its ballyhooed iPhone 4.0. I’ve tested two other devices based on Android 2.1, the Google Nexus One and HTC Droid Incredible, […]

HTC Evo 4G from Sprint Makes Users Lust for Any Web App by Clint Boulton Unboxing The Evo comes in an egg-carton-style box. The device measures 4.8 inches long, 2.6 inches wide and a half-inch thick. For those of you who have played with the heavy Motorola Droid, this device also weighs a hefty 6 […]

Google has debunked a blog post by an analyst claiming that Google Health, the company’s effort to help patients access their personal health records from any computing device through a secure portal, is dead or in stasis. John Moore, founder of health care technology analyst company Chilmark Research, wrote May 28 that Google Health has […]

In a frivolous lawsuit that ranks right up there with people suing McDonald’s for burning themselves drinking hot coffee, a woman is suing Google because she claims Google Maps directions led her to a highway, where she was struck by a car. One day last January, Los Angeles native Lauren Rosenberg was trying to get […]

Google’s Chrome Web browser continued its upward march through May, cracking the 7 percent mark after racking up 6.7 percent share through April. Market researchers at Net Applications peg Chrome at 7.05 percent, meaning Chrome’s market share grew a full 1 percent since March. Chrome’s gain came at the expense of several others. Microsoft’s Internet […]

Google is allegedly forbidding some of its more than 20,000 employees to use computers running Microsoft Windows due to concerns about the operating system’s security. The Financial Times cited Google employees who said Google began seriously pushing its workers to Apple Macs or machines running Linux in January after the Chinese cyber-attack on some Gmail […]

The Federal Communications Commission said June 1 the four out of five broadband users in the United States do not know how fast their broadband connection is, a sign of how little Internet users know about the rate at which data is transmitted to their computers. On behalf of the FCC’s Consumer Task Force, Abt/SRBI […]

The Google TV service launching this fall aims to marry broadcast television content and Web surfing. The platform, based on version 2.1 of Google’s Android operating system, will place the Chrome Web browser on Web-connected televisions from Sony that Best Buy will begin selling this fall. While the excited chatter has been all about how […]

Analysis: Google has $26.5 billion in its coffers, so it’s become fashionable to wonder what big vendor Google could buy next, what statement it can make to shake the foundations of technology. With a market cap of $11 billion, enterprise application maker Salesforce.com would be such a buy. In a May 4 post on Silicon […]

Google said Facebook.com is the leading Website in the world with 540 million unique users, reaching 35.2 percent of the total Internet population through April. The social network, which boasts nearly 500 million total users, racked up 570 billion page views, according to Google’s new DoubleClick Ad Planner 1000 list. This list tracks the top […]

The recently dispatched rumor du jour that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would appear onstage at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference has been supplanted by new speculation. Actually make that new, old speculation: Apple is going to replace Google as its default search engine for the iPhone with Microsoft’s Bing: So goes the latest theory from […]