Clint Boulton

If anyone doubted that Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) is interested in playing in Salesforce.com’s (NASDAQ:SFDC) carefully cultivated cloud computing wheelhouse, the software giant’s $1.43 billion acquisition offer for customer service software maker RightNow Technologies should allay those doubts. Oracle has plenty of this so-called CRM software, including Oracle CRM and Siebel on Demand applications. RightNow, whose software […]

Sprint (NYSE:S) Oct. 26 said it added more than 1.3 million new wireless subscribers in the third quarter despite posting a net loss of $301 million, or 10 cents a share, on sales of $8.33 billion. Financial analysts was expecting a loss of 22 cents a share on revenue of $8.38 billion. Sprint, which also […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) launched its latest Chrome 15 browser to the stable channel and shelled out $26,511 for 18 security flaw discoveries, shattering the previous payout record of $17,000 set in August. Some $12,174 of that total was paid to Sergey Glazunov for finding five high-risk, cross-origin policy violations. Glazunov also banked $1,500 for detecting a […]

For all of the griping the U.S. government does about Google’s size and influence in the Internet sector, the institution sure likes to tap the search engine provider on the shoulder a lot for information. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Oct. 25 revealed that the U.S. government made a stunning 5,950 requests for data on Google user accounts […]

Where is the Google+ integration with Google Apps? Not to be a stickler (OK, when a journalist says that, a stickler is exactly what he is being) but one week ago today Google Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra told the Web 2.0 Summit crowd that he and his team would enable Google+ to work for […]

Earlier this summer, I tested and reviewed Samsung’s Galaxy S II Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 2.3 Gingerbread handsets on AT&T and Sprint’s networks. I found both to be speedy, reliable and enjoyable to use, whether accessing applications via the carriers’ 3G or 4G networks. I’m well acquainted with AT&T and Sprint’s S II devices and all […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system vaulted over Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS platform in market share downloads by a count of 44 percent to 31 percent, according to research released by ABI Research Oct. 24. The statistic may be surprising at first blush, considering that Apple has more than 500,000 applications in its vaunted iTunes App Store, […]

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMAZN) could sell anywhere between 4.5 million to 5 million Kindle Fire tablets, according to channel checks with supply chain vendors conducted by financial research concern J.P. Morgan. The 7-inch, Android-based tablet won’t grace consumers’ hands until Nov. 15, but pre-order sales are painting a rosy picture for the slate geared to take some […]

More than 72.2 million Americans, or nearly one-third of the country, accessed Facebook, LinkedIn (NASDAQ:LNKD), Twitter, or some other social network or blog from a mobile device in August, up 37 percent from the same time last year. Nearly 40 million of those U.S. mobile users access these sites almost every day, according to new […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android mobile operating system Oct. 25 grabbed 56 percent of total ad impressions, fully double the 28 percent impression share enjoyed by Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS, according to Millennial Media’s September statistics. Millennial Media found that Android also beat iOS in application ad spending by a count of 49 percent to 41 percent, the […]

It feels painfully petty calling a deceased man who brought the world so much joy with consumer electronics devices hypocritical, but bloggers have to tell it like it is. One of the themes that has bubbled up in the wake of Apple founder Steve Jobs’ passing has been the idea that Jobs blasted Google for […]

Smartphone and tablet activations based on Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS and Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating systems continued their ramp up in the enterprise sector, according to Good Technology’s third quarter report. Good, which makes software to help companies manage iPhones, iPads, Android handsets and tablets and other gadgets, said that the iPhone accounted for 61 percent […]