Clint Boulton

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) search, Gmail, YouTube, Google+ and other Web services use less energy per user than a light left on for 3 hours, according to the search engine provider, which on Sept. 8 provided for the first time detailed statistics on its energy use. The move, accompanied by a new Google Green Website, is designed […]

It was not a banner week for cloud computing. Cloud computing rivals Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) suffered brief outages that knocked off some of their key messaging and collaboration products. Google Sept. 7 saw its Google Docs word collaboration application cramp up for one hour, shutting out millions of users from their document lists, […]

Ground Zero A quick search for ground zero in Google Earth returns several options related to the 9/11 site. Birds-Eye View Here’s a better aerial view of where the twin towers stood. From the Street This is a street-level view of West Street along the World Trade Center site. Ground Zero, 2007 Here is a […]

Sprint Sept. 9 launched two such devices, the Android 2.3 “Gingerbread”-based Kyocera Milano smartphone, which costs $49.99 on contract and the Kyocera Brio, which is free with a two-year data deal. Sprint is offering a decidedly different approach to its low-cost phones. The Milano, which Sprint envisions as a handset that bridges the gap from […]

Fewer Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Web services outside of the Chrome Web browser have been upgraded this year more than Google Places, the company’s local search service. Google just acquired Zagat to beef up restaurant reviews for Places, which pairs local business information, such as address, telephone numbers, hours of operation and reviews with the concern’s location […]

Amazing. Google acquired Zagat, a niche content company nearly as old as myself whose little red pocket-sized booklets of restaurant reviews I can remember devouring 15 years ago. What’s so amazing about this? It’s a consolidation of workflow tools. Google, which makes easily a dozen or so search and collaboration tools I use to do […]

China’s Huawei is well-known for pumping out tons of low-cost Android smartphones for sales across Asia, contributing to the rich ecosystem that has given the open-source operating system the biggest software footprint in the world. The Chinese OEM is now taking this approach to the United States, where AT&T plans to begin selling the Impulse […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has said it would come to the defense of its OEM partners as they battle Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and other litigants in court over Android. The operating system provider has apparently backed up its talk. Google has sold nine patents to HTC to sue Apple for patent infringement, with the Taiwanese phone […]

Google Sept. 8 said it purchased Zagat, the 32-year-old company that aggregates reviews on restaurants, nightspots, hotels and other attractions from more than 350,000 surveyors around the world. Terms of the deal, which was announced via corporate blog post, were not disclosed. The acquisition should give the search engine company a shot of instant credibility […]

For several months, pundits and folks with grudges versus Google’s Android operating system have speculated that the provider of the world’s leading smartphone platform has a heavier hand in the release of its platform to open source than it led us to believe. Google didn’t do itself a favor when it withheld its Android 3.0 […]

For the third time in four years, Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) has bid goodbye to a CEO, leaving the company reeling after two-plus years of relative inertia in the ultra-competitive Internet sector. Yahoo Sept. 6 fired CEO Carol Bartz, who was expected to bring a lot of the fire and chutzpah she showed for years as CEO […]

Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZW) and Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI) unveiled the Android 2.3 “Gingerbread”-based Motorola Droid Bionic 4G LTE (Long-Term Evolution) smartphone, which the carrier will begin selling Sept. 8 for $299.99 with a two-year contract. Delayed for several months as Motorola worked feverishly to upgrade the hardware and software, the Droid Bionic is the highly […]