Clint Boulton

Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad isn’t just the hottest consumer tablet in the market; it’s also beating all Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android-based “Honeycomb” tablets and smartphones combined in the nascent enterprise market for mobile devices. The iPad, which sold more than 28 million units worldwide, accounted for 95 percent of business tablet activations, according to Good Technology’s latest […]

I’ve waited a week to write this post because there has been a lot of newsy stuff going on. Google+ has been newsy and topical since June 28, but it’s also growing increasingly noisy, with what comScore claims are 20 million people using the service. That makes for one hell of a noisebox to filter. […]

Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone 5 is rumored to be hitting the market this fall, and the anticipation of what new perks Apple’s next-generation smartphone might offer users continues to percolate. So frenetic is the fever pitch that 35 percent of nearly 3,000 U.S. consumers surveyed online said they would buy the iPhone 5 upon its release […]

Three of the largest wireless carriers in the United States have joined Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), PayPal and others at the table for mobile payments based on near field communications wireless technology. Isis, a joint venture comprised of AT&T (NYSE:T) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZW), scored a major coup by becoming the first mobile payment provider to ink […]

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) received some bittersweet news July 21 in its patent infringement case against Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) over Android. The bitter end is that Oracle was ordered to lower its damages claim against Google in the case, from as much as $6.1 billion to a starting point of $100 million, according to Computerworld. On the sweet […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has removed snippets of reviews published on third-party local search rivals from its Google Places local search product, a move that could boost the company’s argument that it doesn’t violate antitrust laws. There is quite a back story to this move. Google in April 2010 retooled its Local Business Center search service, which […]

ComScore said Google+ has racked up more than 20 million users, including 5 million in the U.S., in the first three weeks since the search engine launched the social network as an alternative to Facebook. The researcher culled estimates from unique visitors who arrived at Google+ from June 29 through July 19, said Andrew Lipsman, […]

Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone 4 has been very good to Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZW), as the carrier shipped 2.3 million of the popular devices and reported $1.61 billion, or 57 cents a share, in profit for the second quarter. Verizon notched $3.6 billion in earnings for the quarter on 57 cents earnings per share, with revenue of […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), which has been moved to put “more wood behind fewer arrows” of late, is putting more wood behind its Google+ social network, which comScore said has topped 20 million users. To that end, the search engine acquired small social startup Fridge, whose software facilitates the construction of private groups within social networks, as […]

I began using the Toshiba Thrive Android 3.1-based “Honeycomb” tablet last week with some reservations after all the negative attention the 10.1-inch tablet garnered over what I’ll call SleepmodeGate. I’ve been using this hefty WiFi-only device (my version was the 16GB model, with 1 GB RAM) for over a week, and I haven’t experienced the […]

Google is facing an antitrust investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. Every acquisition Google makes of size is investigated by the FTC or the Justice Department. The company stumbled through 2010 with two major privacy gaffes with Street View and Google Buzz. It is looking to expand its cloud-computing purview and push more aggressively into […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) July 20 rolled out a service to augment its phone calling capability in Gmail by letting users make multiple calls at the same time. The search giant surprised users last August when it launched calling capability in Gmail, which leverages the company’s Google Voice phone management application and voice and video plug-in. Google […]