Clint Boulton

Samsung said it has sold 5 million Galaxy S II handsets in 85 days of availability in South Korea, Japan and some European countries, according to Yonhap News. That speedy clip comes after Samsung sold 3 million of the Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” devices in 55 days and 1 million in less than a month in […]

SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) July 27 will soon allow its Business Objects analytics, StreamWork collaboration and other enterprise customers to use Google Maps to see a geographical visualization of product sales and other information. Google Maps is an application that lets consumers access interactive map, satellite and street-level views of the world’s geographical locations via the […]

One month into its already storied existence, Google+ is getting both advice and feature requests at a healthy clip. One of the most liberal advice dollopers has been Tom Anderson, also known as MySpace Tom, for better or worse. As the founder of the social media comet that flamed out perhaps far too soon, Anderson […]

Facebook July 26 said it has made it easier for subscribers to opt out of a controversial feature that uses facial-recognition technology to tag users in photos. Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen is taking credit for the change, which includes deleting the facial-recognition data of users who opt out of the tag suggestions feature at […]

Crucial acquisitions Apple made in virtual-assistant and facial-recognition technologies to help its iPhone better compete with Google Android handsets are coming to fruition in the next version of iOS. Apple is reportedly adding virtual-assistant technology from Siri and facial-recognition software from Polar Rose into iOS 5, according to the 9-to-5 Mac blog. Both technologies pose […]

Microsoft Investment Microsoft, which had inked a seemingly innocent ad deal with Facebook in October 2006, agreed to infuse Facebook with $240 million in cash to grow. Microsoft also became the exclusive third-party advertising platform partner for Facebook, and further agreed to sell advertising for the company internationally as well as in the U.S. Microsoft […]

Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZW) said it will begin selling the 4G LTE Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 July 28, becoming the first provider of a 4G-powered Samsung tablet. Verizon is selling the 4G LTE Tab 10.1, which is slightly thinner and lighter than Apple’s iPad 2 at 8.6 millimeters and 1.25 pounds, in two models. The 16GB […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) policy for enforcing real names on its new Google+ social network has roiled consumer privacy waters, so much so that the search engine is accelerating changes to the process. Google has taken to suspending accounts where it feels users have created pseudonymous or fake name accounts. This has made some of the service’s […]

Consumers are ready for a low-cost tablet alternative to Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad and would seriously welcome such a slate from Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), according to Retrevo. The consumer electronics shopping site said that 55 percent of 1,000 consumers surveyed said they would choose an Amazon tablet, which is expected to be based in Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android […]

For this post I’m taking a break from my regularly scheduled Google+ critiques to critique one of the other hot news items of the modern technology age: That would be Windows Phone 7. Where are all of these devices running Windows Phone 7? What is this elusive “Mango” build I’ve read about? They must be […]

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) confirmed it has acquired facial recognition software specialist Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt), which was born from research at Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt), which makes facial recognition software that identifies users from images and video, was launched in 2004 by Henry Schneiderman, who performed his research both as a student […]

AT&T (NYSE:T) pledged to upgrade all post-paid Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android smartphones it has already introduced to run the latest Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” smartphone build. The upgrade plan starts with the Motorola Atrix 4G July 25. Other AT&T phones slated to get the Gingerbread bump include the HTC Inspire 4G, LG Phoenix, Pantech Crossover, Samsung Captivate […]