Clint Boulton

Google+ received 49 million visits in the U.S. through December, up 55 percent from November, according to new data from Experian HitWise. HitWise Jan. 2 tweeted this quick-and-dirty chart showing the rise of visits to Google+ to 49 million visitors last month, up from 30 million in November and 25 million in October, the first […]

Engineers for Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Mozilla’s desktop browser teams lashed out at media reports that questioned the companies’ renewed deal to put Google search in the Firefox browser toolbar. Google and Mozilla renewed their deal to feature Google as the default search provider for the Firefox toolbar Dec. 20. Google pays Mozilla a portion of […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Chrome Web browser ended 2011 with 19.1 percent desktop market share, making significant gains against Mozilla’s Firefox browser. Net Applications said Chrome grew to 19.1 percent through December 2011, up from 18.2 percent in November. Firefox fell to 21.8 percent, from 22.1 percent through November. Market leader Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Internet Explorer also lost […]

Asus Eee Transformer Prime This tablet, the first quad-core, ARM processor-based Android tablet to grace the market, is drawing rave reviews from gadget Websites. The device is only 0.31 inches thick and weighs just 1.29 pounds, so it has power but is lightweight. As the Verge noted: “The Prime is an incredible piece of hardware. […]

Facebook is killing Google, enjoying more than 800 million users, half of whom log on to connect with family, friends and colleagues daily. This is the meme that’s been boiling over from the tech press in the wake of Nielsen’s latest top Web brands list. Certainly, when it comes to user engagement, or time spent […]

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) said it sold millions of Kindle Fire tablets in the holiday quarter, and it seems consumers who received them for Christmas are pleased with the slate, which was upgraded with some navigation improvements. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said half of the 8,529 Fire reviews he surveyed gave the tablet 5 out of […]

I’ve been off for the past week, but this report from The Next Web caught my eye. It’s nothing special — just the annual post about what Samsung is doing at Mobile World Congress in February. For this year, that includes the Galaxy S III smartphones. Recall last year that Samsung unveiled its popular Galaxy […]

Verizon Wireless Dec. 30 nixed its plan to levy a $2 “convenience fee” on single payments made online or via phone after consumers rallied against the wireless carrier and the Federal Communications Commission vowed to investigate the fee. Word leaked Dec. 29 that Verizon would tack on fees for customers who make single bill payments […]

Adobe Acquires Nitobi The prelude to Adobe playing down Flash for HTML5 came at Adobe Max in October, when the company acquired Nitobi Software. Nitobi makes the popular PhoneGap, an open-source platform for building fast, cross-platform mobile applications with HTML5 and JavaScript. Adobe Capitulates More than one month later, Adobe drops the bombshell that it […]

YouTube counted more than 1 trillion playbacks on the video-sharing site this year, or roughly 140 views for every person on Earth, Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) video sharing Website said. The Website, which said 48 hours of video are uploaded to the Website every minute, revealed its most-watched videos of 2011. The site gauged global view counts […]