Clint Boulton

Thanks in part to sales of its popular Galaxy S and Galaxy S II Android smartphones, Samsung has broken its own record by selling 300 million handsets–and counting–in 2011. Samsung also said sales of smartphones powered by its own bada operating system are picking up steam worldwide, thanks in part to its refreshed bada 2.0 […]

Verizon Wireless’ rollout of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone may have been delayed, but a few devices have made their way into the eager hands of some Android fans hungry for Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) new Ice Cream Sandwich build. Droid Life reported that someone snagged a Galaxy Nexus early from a Verizon store, which had received […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Dec. 13 made its second food-related acquisition since acquiring Zagat in September, snapping up restaurant-recommendation-engine specialist Clever Sense for an undisclosed sum. Clever Sense only launched the Android flavor of its application, called Alfred, last week. The company first introduced Alfred for the iPhone and iPad this past summer. Using machine-learning technology, Alfred […]

Google recently upgraded its movie search capabilities for Android smartphones and Apple iOS devices, making movie discovery along with their showtimes and theaters faster and easier to find. If only there were any decent movies out there to see as we speed toward Christmas … but that’s another matter entirely. Anyway, instead of basic movie […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) may have shuttered its Slide social software unit in favor of Google+, but that doesn’t mean the big search and social network provider doesn’t have room for some social side projects. A team at Google has created Schemer, which press have described as being anything from an activity recommendation engine to a social […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android Market, Facebook, as well as Google applications such as Search, Gmail and Google Maps, are roughly the top most popular smartphone applications for the Android platform, according to Nielsen. Nielsen analyzed data from the smartphones of the thousands of participating consumer panelists to rank mobile apps by active reach, or the percentage […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) YouTube video-sharing property has acquired RightsFlow, a startup that processes music royalties to help songwriters, performers, music labels and others be compensated for their work. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, though YouTube Product Manager David King pointed out in a blog post that YouTube has spent “tens of millions of […]

With less than three weeks left in 2011, Android OEMs are racing to pump out the last of their smartphones and tablets for people like myself to review (and, they hope, for consumers to purchase for Christmas!). The good news is I expect to get a Motorola Droid Xyboard 10.1 any day now after receiving […]

When it comes to consumer electronics technology and Web services, it’s not often that we can say Microsoft has beat Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) to something. But with Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 upgrade, well, the software giant may have beaten its rivals. The new Xbox 360 aims to deliver users games, movies, TV shows, […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Mozilla remain in active negotiations over their search advertising pact, the companies confirmed. Mozilla drives searches to Google.com from its Firefox Web browser search box, for which the search engine giant pays Mozilla a portion of ad revenues generated from those searches. ZDNet’s Ed Bott noted Dec. 2 that the deal was […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) quiet introduction of facial recognition for its photos application on Google+ is drawing praise from analysts and security researchers alike because it stands in stark contrast to the way Facebook employed similar technology earlier this year. That is, it’s opt-in. Google’s Find My Face feature lets its Google+ social network users opt-in to […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Dec. 8 launched Google Currents, its long-awaited magazine-reading application for smartphones and tablets, joining an increasingly competitive field led by Flipboard and Zite. Google Currents will let users access and read articles from more than 180 publications on Android smartphones and tablets, as well as Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPads and iPhones. Full-length articles from […]