Clint Boulton

Sometimes you read reports and just shake your head. That was the case for this DigiTimes report that said Google is rushing Android 5.0, or “Jelly Bean,” to market in the second quarter. The reason? “Adoption of Android 4.0 has fallen short of original expectations, and Microsoft will launch Windows 8 in the third quarter […]

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) managed to sell 3.9 million Kindle Fire tablets during the fourth quarter, living up to analysts’ sales estimates for the 7-inch Android slate before it launched Nov. 15 for $199, said researcher IHS iSuppli (NYSE:IHS). The Kindle Fire grabbed 14.3 percent of the nascent tablet market. That’s good for No. 2 in a […]

Market momentum for software that helps companies provision, manage and safeguard mobile handsets is picking up where it left off in 2011. Centrify Feb. 14 unveiled Centrify DirectControl for Mobile, a Web-based service that protects potentially sensitive corporate data transmitted via Apple iPhones and iPads, Android smartphones and tablets, and other gadget platforms. Enterproid meanwhile […]

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) said any application that wants to access user contact data will require explicit user approval; this is a response to two senators’ inquiries into the application data privacy problem that came to light with Path and other software makers. Social network service Path and several other makers of iOS applications store users’ address […]

Path’s privacy snafu of collecting address book data and storing it on remote servers without permission opened the floodgates of media hellhounds on that startup, along with Twitter, Foursquare, Yelp and others. This comes a week after Google spent a couple weeks being demonized for its planned privacy policy changes, which go into effect next […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is now enabling instant photo and video uploads in its Google+ for iPhone app, porting a distinguishing feature from its Google+ for Android app. Just as Google+ Hangout video chat sessions have proven popular on the desktop, Google+ Instant Upload has easily been one of the most attractive features for Android smartphone users. […]

Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI), which just received the approval to be acquired by Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) by U.S. and European regulators, has updated its timetable for bringing Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, to its legion of Android smartphones and tablets. Unfortunately for ICS fans, it won’t be particularly soon. While the ICS bump began rolling out […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) said Feb. 14 that its public Domain Name System (DNS) now processes over 70 billion requests each day, making it the largest public DNS service in the world. Domain Name Systems translate computer host names into IP addresses, serving as phone directories for the Web. The DNS translates alphabetical domain names humans associate […]

Google is well known for its collegiate roots, hatched as it was by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University back in the late 1990s. So it’s only fitting that PageRank, the defining algorithm that set Google apart from Overture, Yahoo, Microsoft and many others to date, is being applied at another university. […]

More searchers prefer Google search results to remain impersonal rather than personalized, according to a small sample of 400 U.S. Internet users. AYTM Market Research asked Web users if they liked the idea of personalized search results, which is a particularly poignant question at this stage in Google’s evolution. Some 45.4 percent of respondents said […]

Among the many pearls of wisdom from Forrester Research’s new report on the impact of mobile technologies in the business world, is the notion that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) will provide the software platforms for more than 90 percent of smartphones and tablets worldwide. That leaves little room for enterprise mobility stalwart […]

Hours after the European Commission OK’d Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI), the Department of Justice followed suit, granting the search engine permission to buy the Android OEM. The DOJ also extended its blessing to the controversial acquisition of Nortel patents by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM), a […]