Clint Boulton

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Oct. 31 said it has overhauled its Google+ for Android application, working closely with the company’s Android team to help the app’s design hew closely to the forthcoming Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” operating system. Google+ for Android 2.1 offers a new user interface for posting, better notifications, and navigation and performance improvements. […]

In case people haven’t heard enough griping about the new Google Reader changes, which kill off comments, sharing, likes and other social tools, former Google Reader Product Manager Brian Shih weighed in Oct. 31 with his own thoughts on the product. For a recap, Reader’s social tools were nixed in favor of the Google +1 […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Reader upgrades, which include removal of the application’s sharing features, are causing more than a little consternation among its loyal users. Google alerted users about the upgrade over a week ago, but it wasn’t enough to prepare them for the shock of losing some of the app’s key features. Some of the millions […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Oct. 31 is providing more insight into how ads its search and Gmail users see are relevant, a move to appease privacy hounds who have called for the company to be more forthcoming about how it targets users with ads. The search company will soon provide a link title “Why these ads” next […]

Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) is cutting 800 jobs and closing facilities, a downsizing that will cost the phone maker a total of $31 million as it prepares to be acquired by Google (NASDAQ:GOOG). Motorola agreed to be acquired Aug. 15 for $12.5 billion by the search giant, which plans to use the Android OEM’s patents to […]

Salesforce.com (NASDAQ:SFDC) may be performing well in the enterprise software market now, but at least one analyst fears for the software-as-a-service provider’s future with rival enterprise giant Oracle looming large. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdry claims that prospective customers see limitations in the multi-tenancy architecture Salesforce.com used to put itself on pace to earn […]

The thing that’s tough about reviewing the Motorola Atrix 4G smartphone line is that you have to get around focusing on the joy the phone’s accessories bring to the user. I’m going to give it a shot, but there is one accessory that stands out that I’m going to address later in the review. The […]

AT&T (NYSE:T) will launch the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket and HTC Vivid Nov. 6, marking a milestone launch as the first two 4G Long-Term Evolution smartphones from the top U.S. wireless carrier. The Galaxy S II Skyrocket, a follow-up to the company’s first S II with a 4.3-inch display and a 1.2GHZ dual-core processor, […]

It’s tempting to sour on the idea of that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) would buy struggling Internet legacy Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), which is facing takeover rumors and other strategies in the wake of the company’s dismissal of Carol Bartz from the helm. Let’s back up a few years. Recall that when Google bid to work with Yahoo in […]

Numerous case studies and anecdotal evidence tell the tale of Apple’s iPad as a boon for e-commerce and even in some select business markets. Law firm Prosskauer Rose, for example, issued 500 iPad 2s to its attorneys, who use them to send and receive email messages and share contracts with clients. Now evidence of the […]

So I’ve been reading the handful of articles that covered Facebook’s Open Compute launch in depth and I have to disagree with one of the main story angles. Naturally, when one covers a news item regarding Facebook it makes sense to look at it from a competitive standpoint. As in, how does a new feature […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) YouTube arm took its first public step to unveil its reported $100 million investment in content producers, introducing channels from 100 celebrities and major content producers to coax users to spend more time on the Website. YouTube hasn’t hid from the fact that it wants to boost user engagement, which will vastly increase […]