Clint Boulton

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android has topped 700,000 activations per day, according to the mobile operating system’s chief architect Andy Rubin. Rubin, Google’s Google senior vice president of mobile, made the announcement via Twitter and on Google+, adding: “and for those wondering, we count each device only once (ie, we don’t count re-sold devices), and ‘activations’ means […]

Amazon has begun rolling out the promised update for its Kindle Fire tablet. The *over-the-air software package will help remove a lot of the latency we’ve come to see in the Fire since it launched Nov. 15 for $199. The New York Times columnist David Pogue outlined the improvements as such today: The home screen […]

Firefox browser fans who follow the company closely can breathe easy. Mozilla Dec. 21 renewed its search deal with Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), a crucial arrangement that accounted for roughly $100 million of Mozilla’s $123 million in revenues in 2010. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, due to confidentiality agreements the companies inked. However, Mozilla […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Dec. 20 invested $94 million more on solar energy, bringing its clean energy investments to a grand total of more than $915 million through 2011. The search engine giant, which consumes a lot of power by using dozens of data centers and hundreds of thousands of server computers to fuel Web searches and […]

Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire tablet has helped Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android ad impressions to the 50 percent mark in November, though that figure is still down from 56 percent in October and September, according to Millennial Media. Apple’s iOS was second with 30 percent, up from 28 percent the prior month, according to the mobile ad […]

Like a pit bull with a porterhouse steak, U.S. senators have latched on to the notion of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) as a company whose search business is having a deleterious impact on fair competition in search and Internet commerce. Sens. Herb Kohl, D-Wisc., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, chairman and ranking member of the Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, […]

Samsung Dec. 20 confirmed that it will be upgrading its Galaxy S II smartphone, Galaxy Tab tablets and other devices to Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich platform beginning in 2012, a disclosure that should appease several Samsung phone and tablet owners heading into the new year. Google announced late last week that the […]

While Facebook’s Timeline is rolling out to users in time for the new year, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is fitting a handful of features into its own social network in time for Christmas. Over the next few days, Google+ users will be able to access a noise filter, a redesigned photo application, administrative designations for Google+ Pages […]

Sleek Front Turned off, the Galaxy Nexus doesn’t look like much—just another candy-bar-styled Samsung smartphone with rounded edges. Gray Back The Nexus has a textured gray back surrounding the lightly bezeled camera, with the Verizon 4G and Samsung branding and little else. Side Here is the Nexus from the side. It measures 0.37 inches thin […]

Having spent the last several days using Verizon Wireless’ Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone as my primary handset, I can honestly say it’s the fastest phone I’ve ever had the pleasure of using. The Galaxy Nexus, which Verizon began selling Dec. 15 for $299.99 on contract (you can get one from Amazon Wireless for $189.99 if […]

Take any translation with a grain of salt, but if you believe Corriere della Sera’s citation of Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, the company will likely launch a Google Nexus-branded tablet based on the new Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” operating system six months from now. Possibly even in time for Google I/O in the […]

Salesforce.com’s (NYSE:CRM) bid to acquire Rypple Dec. 15 is a direct, albeit considerably cheaper, counter to SAP’s (NYSE:SAP) $3.4 billion overture to buy SuccessFactors. SuccessFactors and Rypple are part of the bumper crop of cloud computing startups whose tools help human resource managers keep companies running smoothly and well. SuccessFactors’ employee performance management applications enjoy […]