Clint Boulton

Xoom 2 The Xoom 2 is bold, considering Motorola only sold 100,000 units of the original Xoom in its most recent quarter. The tablet has 1GB RAM and 16GB of internal storage, along with 3D virtual surround sound. Xoom 2 Horizontal The horizontal view gives users a better appreciation for the wide high-definition screen. The […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Nov. 3 launched its first Google Offers for Android mobile application and inked its first national offer from outdoor retailer REI. Google rolled outOffers in a bid to capture some of the e-commerce revenue enjoyed by daily deals giants Groupon and LivingSocial. Offers rolled out in Portland, Ore. in April and is now […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Nov. 3 said it is accelerating its Web search index to deliver users fresher results for recent or recurring events and other updates that require more immediacy. The move comes more than a year after the search-engine leader finished a major indexing overhaul, called Caffeine, to troll the Web for fresher content. Caffeine […]

Kevin Fury Fox, a former Google Reader lead designer, has offered to fix Google Reader, which the search engine has streamlined and stripped of social tools such as to render it unusable by several of its loyal users. Google started the firestorm earlier this week when it ripped out Reader’s comments, shares, likes and other […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system maintained its 43 percent smartphone market share through October, followed by Apple’s iPhone at 28 percent, according to research released Nov. 3 by Nielsen. The researcher, which had Android and iOS at the same numbers through August, said smartphones continue to be hot items. Research In Motion’s BlackBerry platform stands […]

Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) Nov. 2 moved to prove it is the premier digital media company with applications that let users consume magazine content and television in Apple’s popular iPads. Available free now from Apple’s App Store in the United States, Livestand incorporates content from its own Sports, News, Finance, Flickr, omg!, and the Yahoo Contributor Network […]

Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) said it will launch two new Xoom tablets into the European market in a bold announcement that comes a week after the company disclosed weak sales of the original Xoom slate. Launched last February, the original Motorola Xoom was Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 3.0 Honeycomb’s coming-out party. However, the device had a tepid […]

What do you get when you cross Google+ with Google News? For journalists, you could get a big bump in visibility if you play Google’s new game. When reporters link their Google profile with their articles, Google News will show the writer’s name and how many Google+ users have that writer in their circles. Moreover, […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is sprucing up its search engine by cramming more information from Google Places businesses into its search results pages. When users search Google.com for local businesses, they typically see a Google Map in the right-hand rail to show them directions to the eatery, hardware store or whatever local business they’re searching for more […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Chrome Web browser enjoyed its biggest monthly market share boost ever and could pass Mozilla’s Firefox browser in early 2012, according to new data from Net Applications. The market researcher put Chrome at 17.6 percent through October, an impressive 1.4 percent gain from the fledgling browser’s September share of 16.2 percent. The only […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Gmail redesign is ready for users who want to try it, the company said Nov. 1. Unveiled in July as part of the company’s effort to clean up its products user interfaces, Gmail offers an improved search option. Users may click the drop-down tab in the search box to see a new advanced […]

There was a good reason Google sent out Street View trikes to shoot footage of those hard to reach places two years ago: footage of parks! The search engine provider’s trike team has traversed 22 countries to add a number of parks for its real-world, street-level footage. Google even added a “parks of the world” […]