Clint Boulton

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system is the runaway market leader in U.S. smartphone share at 43.7 percent, but Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) easily bests its rival in combined smartphone and tablet market share, according to comScore’s Digital Omnivores report. Apple can thank its popular iPad tablet for that. The tablet, which has sold 30 million units since […]

Facebook’s free iPad application arrived Oct. 10 after more than a year in the making and some controversy over its delay. Users who install the application, available here from Apple’s App Store, can use their fingers to scroll through their News Feed, or simply swipe to zoom through photo albums and pinch a single picture […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) September search share bounced back to 65.3 percent one month after a slower August in which the market leader totaled 64.8 percent of the search market, according to comScore. Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) fairly plummeted to 15.5 percent from 16.3 percent for the month, during which former CEO Carol Bartz was ousted from the struggling […]

No one enjoys conflicts of schedule, but this latest one really annoys me. Motorola Mobility, the major Android OEM maker being acquired by Google, is co-hosting a smartphone and tablet unveiling with Verizon Wireless in New York City Oct. 18, which is smack dab in the middle of Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco: Yes, […]

Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZW) will begin selling the Samsung Stratosphere Galaxy 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) smartphone Oct. 13 for $149.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and two-year data contract. The Stratosphere is Samsung’s first 4G LTE handset with a sliding QWERTY keyboard, and the company’s first Galaxy S phone with a slider as well. Based on […]

Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) subsidiary 3LM Oct. 10 introduced its enterprise server console software to secure handsets and tablets based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system. The market is littered with dozens of enterprise device management (EDM) vendors, including Good Technology, MobileIron, Enterproid and Zenprise. Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) popularized the sector with BlackBerry Enterprise Server, […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) last week added more fine-grained controls to its Google+ social network, including the ability to control who can send a user notifications, and the ability to disable the comment-placing capability and lock posts before a user shares his or her information. Responding to user requests, Google has added a section in its Google+ […]

So I want to address the meme that Google’s top executives are not heavy Google+ users after Michael DeGusta posted this piece lamenting the lack of updates by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and other big wigs at Google. DeGusta, an entrepreneur and former Web production lead at Apple, […]

Most high-tech analysts agree the late Steve Jobs left Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) well positioned for the next few years, backed by an all-star bench of seasoned technology executives. It’s tough to find fault with the operational savoir faire of new CEO Tim Cook, the design chops of Jonathan Ive, the marketing and presentation skills of Phil […]

One area Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) appeared to slingshot past Google with the iPhone 4S is with Siri Assistant, the artificially intelligent virtual assistant that lets users schedule meetings, make call and book restaurant tables. Since August 2010, Google has offered similar speech recognition software technology for Android phones, called Google Voice Actions. Like Siri, Voice Actions […]

Speech recognition software provider Nuance Communications (NASDAQ:NUAN) confirmed it has purchased Swype, a maker of gesture input software for smartphones based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system, for 102.5 million Oct. 6. In a curiously structured merger, Nuance paid Swype 77.5 million at closing Oct. 6 and will pay the remaining 25 million 18 months […]

Samsung has packed away its Samsung Mobile Unpacked event with Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) next week, where the companies were expected to introduce the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the first smartphone based on Google’s Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” (ICS)operating system. Samsung and Google were scheduled to show off the phone, which Verizon Wireless was to offer exclusively […]