Clint Boulton

HTC Droid Incredible Proves Ideal for Exploring Web Apps No Title The Droid Incredible, UnboxedThe Droid Incredible boasts the same 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor that impressed users of the Google Nexus One smartphone, rendering Web apps fast. No Title Sleek, Black, SexyThe Incredible’s 8-megapixel camera’s eye is always ready to take pictures and video. No […]

Microsoft Office 2010 launches from beta May 12 with its sights set squarely on Google Apps, Google’s Web-based collaboration suite. True to Microsoft’s software-plus-services practice, Office 2010 includes all of the on-premises Office tools users have been using for the last 15-plus years, plus Web-based editions of OneNote, Excel, Word and PowerPoint Microsoft users may […]

The Federal Communications Commission wants wireless carriers to notify their customers before they reach roaming or data usage limits under their wireless service plans, a move to staunch the “bill shock” syndrome that is plaguing the nation. Bill shock is, quite simply, the unfortunate experience of getting a wireless phone bill that was higher than […]

Yesterday I noted how users by and large are complaining about Google’s new search user interface, which sports more slice and dice features on the left-hand rail and some other cosmetic changes (I’m thinking of the lighter logo and streamlined footer). Users can still access the Classic Google here if they are unhappy with Google’s […]

Yahoo saw its search share rise in April to 17.7, up from 16.9 percent in March and 16.8 percent in February, marking the second consecutive month of growth for a search engine that many industry watchers wrote off for losing market share. ComScore’s April search engine stats show that Microsoft Bing gained a basis point, […]

Sprint May 10 confirmed it will not support Google’s Nexus One smartphone on its network, joining Verizon Wireless as the second major U.S. wireless phone operator to give up on the Android-based device. A Sprint spokesperson told eWEEK the Nexus One won’t be coming to its 3G wireless network because the company is throwing its […]

Google Android has supplanted Apple iPhone as the No. 2 smartphone operating system in the United States, according to fresh data released by the NPD Group May 10. The market researcher analyzed unit sales to consumers in the first quarter and found that Android logged 28 percent share of the market, besting the 21 percent […]

In the latest example of how Microsoft is trying to differentiate from Google in search, the Bing team May 6 added buttons that let shopper solicit product feedback from their friends on Facebook and Twitter with a single click. eWEEK tested the feature on a search for a “John Deere Lawnmower” because, well, it’s that […]

Google launched its revamped search user interface last week, and there’s no question that search engine results pages are a little busier and a little more cluttered than they were before. You used to click a button to make search options pop out: Now they are suggested (you have to expand them though), along with […]

Google Ventures Portfolio Is the Pictureof Diversity by Clint Boulton Outgrowing the Garage The new Google Ventures Website displays a colorful picture of the Googleplex, in Mountain View, Calif. Corduro A mobile payment provider, Corduro is the newest member of the Ventures family. Could it give Jack Dorsey’s Square mobile card payments service a run […]

Google May 10 denied allegations that its Google Book Search deal violates international laws and treaties that could cause the United States to pay penalties to countries under rules overseen by the World Trade Organization. Google in October 2008 inked the $125 million Google Book Search deal with the Association of American Publishers and the […]

Talk of tablet computers has been stirred to a frenzy ever since Apple’s illustrious iPad launched and sold more than 1 million units in less than a month. Since that launch, there has been a lot of news swirling around tablets based on Google’s Android operating system, the iPad 3G and even HP’s Slate tablet, […]