Clint Boulton

Google+ has been in limited field-testing for more than three weeks, and there has been no shortage of statistics and punditry bandied about in the blogosphere and on the new social network itself. ComScore counted 20 million users on the service, one week after Google CEO Larry Page said + has over 10 million users. […]

Less than a month after Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and others budged Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) aside in its bid for Nortel’s patent portfolio, the iPhone and iPad maker is looking to beat the search engine in another auction: the assets of InterDigital. InterDigital hired Evercore Partners and Barclays Capital to look at strategic alternatives, including a potential sale. […]

Samsung’s Nexus S has found support from the leading U.S. wireless carrier, as AT&T (NYSE:T) will begin selling the Google-centric Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” handset July 24 for $99.99 with a two-year contract. AT&T will sell its Nexus S through Best Buy, Best Buy Mobile specialty stores and the BestBuy.com Mobile Website, where users may preorder […]

Google Art We covered this super cool experiment back in February. The Google Art Project leverages Google Street View mapping imagery to give users virtual tours of art in museums around the world. Aardvark We enjoyed this Q&A service even before Google acquired it in February 2010. We’d like to see it stick around and […]

Toshiba Thrive Unboxed At first blush, we weren’t impressed by the Thrive, which felt a bit unwieldy in our hands after using the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 for the last three months. We eventually got used to holding the device, which felt like a ruggedized tool the military might carry with them in the field. […]

Florian Mueller, who is doing yeoman’s work for media by poring over meat and minutiae in the legal salvos between Oracle and Google over Android, has dug up some new meat from the latest filing in the patent infringement case. That is that Google has signaled a willingness (or resignation) to pay Oracle some cash […]

The federal judge presiding over Google’s controversial Book Search agreement is growing impatient with the search engine and the authors and publishers with whom it is trying to reach a revised agreement. New York District Court Judge Denny Chin has asked the parties to come to a new settlement before his next hearing, which he […]

Ever since Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S II Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android smartphone at Mobile World Congress in February, the media has been hounding the company for U.S. launch dates from major carriers such as Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZW), AT&T (NYSE:T), Sprint (NYSE:S) and T-Mobile. The company is edging closer to delivering the phone, which runs Android […]

The good news for Google+: it may now have 18 million users, less than a week after Google CEO Larry Page said it had signed up 10 million users. The bad news for Google+: growth seems to be slowing. Those are two bullet points Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen said he arrived at following his latest […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) July 19 began taking the unusual step of searching users’ Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows computers for malware after it detected some suspicious search traffic in its servers. A computer infected with this kind of malware, which may have come from downloading software or reading an email, may result in deleted data, stolen personal information […]

The Google+ mobile application for Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone leads the top free app list in the iTunes App Store despite launching a bit prematurely from the Googleplex July 19. Google+ is the search engine’s popular new search engine, which may have as many as 18 million users. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) launched a native mobile app for […]

Kicked off of Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) social network for failing to follow the rules, the Anonymous group of hackers responsible for several serious cyber-security attacks is crafting its own social network, AnonPlus. Anonymous, which counts the Bank of America, Arizona Department of Public Safety and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security among its considerable hacking credits, […]