Clint Boulton

Seeking to redeem itself after its first Android tablet failed to gain traction, Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI) has again teamed up with Verizon Wireless to sell a tablet based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android Honeycomb operating system–two of them, actually. Verizon this month will begin selling the 10.1-inch and 8.2-inch Motorola Droid Xyboard tablets, which are […]

Despite some certain usability hiccups, the 7-inch Amazon Kindle Fire tablet could rack up as much as 50 percent of the market for tablets based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) operating system, according to an analyst. CNN reported that Evercore Partners analyst Robert Cihra said that the Fire “may just vaporize other “for profit” Android tablet OEM […]

Two computer chip companies have joined forces to build what they claim is the first tablet computer based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Launched initially in China by Ainol Electronics Co. for just $100, the Novo7 tablet has a 7-inch display powered by a 1GHz CPU built by MIPS Technologies […]

Verizon Wireless’ Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone won’t include Google Wallet, the mobile payment application the search engine provider hopes to make the premier mobile payment service on Android smartphones all over the world. However, the carrier denied media reports that it blocked the application on the first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone, slated to […]

J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz had a sit-down with Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer, from whom he gathered that they were not at all concerned by Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet. If they had said that before the Kindle Fire was launched Nov. 15, I’d call them arrogant. Having played with the custom […]

Anyone wondering what 2012 will look like for the cloud computing market can look at 2011 and add a lot more of the same. If cloud computing is the tree trunk, its two strongest branches are mobile and social technologies. Amit Singh, vice president of Google Enterprise, told eWEEK that the cloud computing sector is […]

An interesting meme has popped up over whether Mozilla’s Firefox browser is sustainable given the fact that Google’s Chrome browser is rapidly gaining on its rival and that Google accounted for 84 percent of revenue last year. That licensing deal, in which Firefox shuttles users to Google’s search engine, supposedly ran out in November, Ed […]

Should SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) consummate its $3.4 billion offer to acquire Web-based human resources software maker SuccessFactors (NASDAQ:SFSF), it will give the enterprise application giant some much needed credibility in cloud computing versus rivals Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) and Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL). SAP certainly showed that it needs the clout, paying $40 per share, or roughly a 52 […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system rose to 46.3 percent market share through October, up from 44.8 percent through September, according to comScore. Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS platform rose to 28.1 percent share for the month from 27.4 percent in September. Apple’s share may have been the beneficiary of offering the new iPhone 4S in several countries […]

1) Nexus Front The device has a 4.65-inch Super AMOLED HD display crafted for multimedia consumption, from video to books and games. 2) Nice Rear Panel iFixit appreciates the clean presentation of the 5 megapixel camera in the Galaxy Nexus’ rear enclosure. “‘Clean’ is the word that comes to mind as we look at the […]

Don’t look now, but Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Maps for Android application just took a step toward e-commerce potential with the company’s introduction of a feature that lets Android smartphone and tablet users see where they are and what’s nearby in select malls, airports and retail stores. Think of it as Google bringing its vast online mapping […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) YouTube unit overhauled its homepage and overall redesign to provide consumers more comfortable channel surfing, part of the video Website’s ongoing effort to be a key broadcasting platform for video content. The new homepage and channels design is colored with a gray background to match colors from the Google+ social network and dovetail […]