Clint Boulton

For owners of the Google TV-powered Logitech Revue companion box, little that came out of Logitech’s first quarter earnings call can be construed as good or beneficial. Logitech lost $30 million for the first quarter, as sales of its digital home products, including the Revue boxes, fell 53 percent, resulting in a $34 million charge. […]

An interesting thing happened in the smartphone market during the second quarter. Both Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung passed Nokia (NYSE:NOK) in worldwide smartphone sales, according to ABI Research. Apple shipped over 20.3 million iPhones to take the No. 1 position. Samsung followed with 19 million smartphones sold, including more than 5 million Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android-based […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) search experience on tablets has been pretty good to date. Google search on the immensely successful Apple iPad has been a breeze. The virtual keyboard on slates running Google’s Android “Honeycomb” operating system is wide and evenly spaced, certainly better than that of any smartphone. Of course, one of Google’s core tenets concerns […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) have just completed another salvo in their ongoing Web-based email war. Microsoft at a recent conference aired a video denigrating Gmail as a snooping application. One week later, Google is offering to stage “email interventions” for users who need rescuing from Microsoft Live Hotmail and other older Webmail apps. Microsoft […]

The bet on Google TV has cost Logitech dearly, as the peripheral maker fired its CEO after returns of the Google TV-powered Revue box outstripped its sales. Logitech lost $30 million for the first quarter, as sales of its digital home products, including the Revue box and its corresponding remote control keyboards, fell 53 percent, […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) July 28 moved to extend its sphere of influence by offering Websites the opportunity to accelerate the loading of their Web pages by 25 percent to 60 percent. Web page loading speed is a huge deal for publishers because their visitors won’t stick around if a Website stutters while rendering content. However, some […]

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has a set date with the Senate on Capitol Hill to discuss the search engine’s expansive Internet market power. Schmidt, who served as CEO of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) for a decade before co-founder Larry Page retook the reins in April, will testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on […]

Google may be winding down its Google Labs experiments, but the company has promised to keep experimenting in its core products, such as search, Gmail and Google Maps. To that end, Google July 28 timed its new Hotel Finder to help people planning summer vacations in the U.S. whittle down their options. The tool comes […]

Google+ use is slowing! Google+ use is slowing! Those sentences must be uttered with the Chicken Little cadence and timbre of “The sky is falling.” Seriously though, Google+ was bound to slow down. It took off like a rocket, hitting more than 20 million users in three weeks, said comScore. Gut check time: Facebook took […]

No Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) application is updated faster than Google Maps for Android as Google seeks to make it the central hub for its mobile, local and social software experience. Less than three weeks after Google Maps for Android 5.7 landed with turn-by-turn GPS Transit Directions, Google Maps 5.8 for Android has arrived to let users […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) proposal to acquire display ad provider Admeld is getting a second request for information from the Justice Department. Google in June agreed to purchase Admeld for $400 million to help large Website publishers select ads from ad networks such as Google’s, Advertising.com and Yahoo’s Right Media. Admeld counts Thomson Reuters and News Corp. […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system rose to 39 percent U.S. market share through June, up from 38 percent in May, according to Nielsen. Apple’s iOS-based iPhone is still in second place, but rose to 28 percent from 27 percent in May and 26 percent in April. While Android leads by dint of massive exposure across […]