Clint Boulton

AT&T (NYSE:T) is on pace to break its previous smartphone sales record for a single quarter, thanks largely to sales of Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) popular iPhone 4S handset, said AT&T’s CFO John Stephens. The No. 1 U.S. wireless carrier has already sold roughly 6 million smartphones through the first two months of the quarter, Stephens revealed […]

SuccessFactors (NYSE: SFSF), which SAP (NYSE:SAP) Dec. 3 agreed to buy for $3.4 billion, is itself swallowing a smaller fish. The company paid $110 million in cash to acquire Jobs2web, a popular, cloud-based recruiting platform that lures top candidates through social networks, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Bing and Twitter. Jobs2web’s specialty is providing application-tracking tools […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) said its Android Market application store exceeded 10 billion application downloads this past weekend, clearly helped by the fact the more than 200 million Android devices have been activated all over the world, with 550,000 activated each day. For perspective, the Android Market tallied 6.5 billion downloads through July and 4.5 billion through […]

Earlier this year, I wondered when Google+ would be integrated with Google Places. That’s as logical of a local business booster as you can get. Take Google’s social network and pair it with the company’s local business search service. Google is indeed hard at work in this effort. The company accidentally posted help documentation that […]

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 […]