Clint Boulton

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android and Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS practically put the mobile market in a head lock in 2011, combining for 82 percent market share, according to NPD Group. The market research firm said Android commanded 53 percent U.S. smartphone share, compared to 29 percent for the iPhone. Android started the year at approximately 30 percent […]

After Jive Software (NASDAQ:JIVE) priced its initial public offering at $12 a share Dec. 12, its shares began trading 27 percent higher the next day at $15.12 per share, and closed that day at $15.05. The result? At the end of the day, Jive, which had banked some $100 million in funding, was worth $888.9 […]

Cloud Computing, et al. IDC claimed spending on cloud services, mobile computing, social networking and big data analytics technologies is growing at about 18 percent per year and is expected to account for at least 80 percent of IT spending growth between now and 2020. “The industry’s shift to the 3rd Platform will accelerate in […]

Google continued its annual ritual of teaming up with Norad to track Santa. Google supplies its Google Maps and Street View software for Norad’s Santa Site. Starting Saturday, Dec. 24, at 2:00 a.m. EST, Santa lovers can navigate to www.noradsanta.org in their Web browser to track Santa’s global trip, starting from the North Pole: No, […]

The Christmas holiday isn’t the only thing Mozilla employees have to be cheerful about these days. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is paying the software maker $300 million a year over the next three year to feature its search engine in its Firefox Web browser, AllThingsDigital learned Dec. 22. If true, Mozilla will take in nearly three times […]

Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Police Department reneged on its agreement to replace its email and collaboration software with Google Apps, effectively removing 13,000 out of 30,000 seats Google had hoped to serve as part of its municipal government contract with Los Angeles. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and systems integrator CSC inked the deal with L.A. […]

Social Web browser startup RockMelt launched its fifth beta version Dec. 20, improving the browser’s search bar, adding a ticker to its Social Reading application and improving its new tab page. RockMelt is based on Google’s Chromium open-source browser (currently version 14) and brings social utilities to the browser window. Users are free to browse […]

Samsung is closing out 2011 by introducing the Galaxy Y Duos and Galaxy Y Pro Duos, two low-end dual SIM models that allow two separate phone numbers and a simultaneous use of data on the same handset. The idea of the dual SIM devices, which both run Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, is […]

Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), struggling to maintain and grow ad revenues as it cedes ground to Google and other Internet giants, Dec. 20 boosted its relationship with one of the very companies that threaten to usurp its visitor base. Yahoo upgraded its integration with social network superpower Facebook, bringing the news activity feature to 26 more Yahoo […]

Sony Ericsson reaffirmed that it will begin upgrading its 2011 Xperia smartphones to Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich platform in March or early April. Sony, which is doing a phased roll-out over several weeks, said the first smartphones to get the upgrade will be the Xperia arc S, Xperia neo V and Xperia […]