Clint Boulton

Anyone out there like to use Firefox on devices other than their work or home PCs? Firefox for Android, which has 5 million to 10 million users, has been tuned to work better for Android Honeycomb and future tablet builds. For example, the Awesome Screen integrates Firefox Sync, keeping browsing history, open tabs, bookmarks and […]

Putting Ourselves Out There We took the plunge, publishing our Timeline this week before Facebook could do it for us. We chose our Timeline “cover” photo from our existing Facebook photos, though users may also upload new photos from their computers or phones to use as their covers. Warning: cover photos may not be promotional […]

Nuance Communications (NASDAQ:NUAN) agreed to acquire Vlingo, a move that buries a legal hatchet between the two rivals and makes things more interesting in the battle between Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) for the best speech-recognition capabilities. Nuance said it struck the deal, for which financial terms were not disclosed, to help meet the demand […]

Droid Xyboard in Slick Box Design Even the Xyboards shipping box is futuristic with a serious, ready-for-business look. Tab 10.1 vs. Xyboard 10.1 The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is more rectangular than the Xyboard, which offers rounded edges covered in black-matte rubber. Front and Rear Cameras The Xyboard sports a 5 megapixel, rear-facing HD camera and […]

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, […]