Clint Boulton

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 […]

Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s (NASDAQ:BNBN) Nook Tablet will power Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android platform to 40.3 percent media tablet market share in the fourth quarter of 2011. That’s up from up from 32.4 percent in Q3, according to IDC, which estimated the media tablet market grew 24 percent on a sequential basis […]

Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) Dec. 15 ported its fading mobile Flash software to Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, enabling multimedia such as video and games on Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone. Flash Player 11.1 for Android smartphones and tablets is the final mobile browser Flash plug-in, and it includes enhancements and bug fixes related to stability, performance […]

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), which spent hundreds of millions of dollars positioning its Bing search engine to challenge Google, has reached 15 percent market share at the expense of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and partner Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO). ComScore said Bing rose from 14.8 percent share in October to 15 percent through November. Google dipped from 65.6 percent in October […]

Galaxy Nexus The latest Nexus carries on the legacy of pure Google Android smartphones, but it’s also got some brand new features for Android smartphones, including facial unlock and Android Beam, which uses near-field communications (NFC) to let Galaxy Nexus users tap phones together to share content. Motorola Droid Razr The Droid Razr is the […]