Clint Boulton

Google Tracks iPhone Users Google was found to dupe Apple’s Safari browser into letting it monitor users for advertising purposes, a no-no for Apple’s no-cookie policy, according to Jonathan Mayer, a grad student at Stanford University. Google, which turned off the feature after being caught by the Journal, acknowledged the tracking but called it inadvertent. […]

Anyone else think this is just wrong? There will no doubt be some search traditionalists and Google lovers who will see this as sacrilege. I see it as another shining example of how Google+ is coming to be synonymous with Google. Or is Google becoming synonymous with Google+. Increasingly, the lines are blurring. Search Engine […]

China’s ZTE Feb. 20 said it has teamed with application processor maker Nvidia on the ZTE Mimosa X smartphone, which will launch with Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, operating system in the second quarter of this year. The Mimosa X has a 4.3-inch quarter-high-definition (qHD) screen with a 960 by 540 resolution, […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is working on new methods for allowing users to unlock Android smartphones and tablets built by Android OEMs, a move that could help Samsung and other OEM partners work around the “slide to unlock” method Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has patented. Patently Apple€”which, as the title of the blog suggests, usually sniffs out Apple patent […]

Gesture input software maker Swype now supports Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, operating system and has been integrated with Nuance Communications’ (NASDAQ:NUAN) Dragon Go! Android application. Swype makes a predictive text application that allows users to “write” words on Android smartphones’ virtual keyboards by swiping their fingers from letter to letter rather […]

Every reporter under the sun painted Google’s use of cookies to insert its Google+ functionality on Apple’s Safari browser as an invasion of users’ privacy. The rub is this: Google and a few other advertising companies have secretly tracked the Web-browsing habits of millions of people using Apple’s Mac computers, iPhones and iPad tablets. Apple’s […]

Congressmen have taken an interest in Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) cookie tracking on Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) Safari Web browser, the second time within a month that U.S. politicians have questioned the search engine giant over its approach to user data privacy. Google and a few other advertising companies have secretly tracked the Web-browsing habits of millions of people […]

Neither Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store nor Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android Market provide enough information about what data their nearly 1 billion mobile applications collect from children who use their software, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC’s survey of mobile apps for children shows that app stores and app developers don’t provide the information parents […]

Note At left, the Note lays next to the smaller, but not small, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the first Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, handset. Camera The camera is a rich, lag-less 8-megapixel delight, paired with a 2-megapixel front shutter for video chats. The black back is soft, yet textured for a better grip. That’s […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) YouTube team integrated a little more tightly with Google+ Feb. 16, allowing users to display their Google+ profile or Page alongside social feeds from Facebook and Twitter on their YouTube channel. YouTube is also now letting users post a “channel bulletin” in which they share video and playlists in their channel feeds. When […]

Home Entertainment In May, Google unveiled Android@Home, an experimental play to build and test Web-enabled devices powered by the Android OS. Google software engineer Joe Britt showed off a stereo system that lets users zip a CD’s content to the cloud and stream it wirelessly throughout a house. Last week, it came to light that […]

I would like to say my experience with Samsung’s Galaxy Note, on sale Feb. 19 from AT&T (NYSE:T) for $299.99 on contract, was a super-success, but I cannot. The truth is that making and receiving calls on this Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 2.3 Gingerbread-based smartphone in public made me feel quite self-conscious. Self-conscious enough that I […]