Clint Boulton

Google’s Android team is adapting the next build of its Android 3.2 “Honeycomb” tablet operating system to let Android tablet owners choose two modes with which to access phone apps not originally intended for the larger tablet form factor. The idea is to boost the paucity of apps available for existing Honeycomb tablets, such as […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) CEO Larry Page announced some positive news about the Android platform during the company’s second-quarter earnings call July 14. These include 550,000 Android devices activated each day, coupled with more than 6 billion Android Market downloads. However, all may not be as rosy as it seems. Research from mobile analytics firm Flurry suggests […]

The title of this post may well have been: Nicholas Carr Vindicated! I’m referring of course to the fact that another study has come to the fore showing empirical evidence that Google is bad for our brains, specifically impinging our ability to recall. If ever there were redemption for Carr’s book “The Shallows,” which explores […]

Much has been made about what Google is going to offer for a gaming strategy, particularly considering the company has been hiring online gaming experts. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) may have offered a peek at what’s to come July 14 with Google News badges, little showings of spirit that users may earn by reading articles about sports, […]

Sprint (NYSE:S) said it will begin selling the Motorola Photon July 31 for $199.99 on a two-year contract, bringing global smartphones based on Google’s Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” operating system to the fore. The Photon 4G, introduced by Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) CEO Sanjay Jha and Sprint CEO Dan Hesse at an event in New York City […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) July 14 broke the $9 billion sales mark for the first time ever in the second quarter, a 32 percent boost over Q2 2010 revenues of $6.82 billion. Excluding $2.11 billion in traffic-acquisition costs, the search engine notched $6.92 billion in net revenue in the second quarter of 2011 and non-GAAP earnings per […]

PayPal showed its plans for mobile payments by using two Samsung Nexus S phones to let users exchange money, a solution the company promised will be released later this summer. The eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) payments unit has written an Android widget that lets people pay and get paid by tapping together two Samsung Nexus S phones […]

Anyone expecting a major shakeup in the U.S. search market for June will be disappointed. ComScore released its monthly search metrics July 13, showing that Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Yahoo’s (NASDAQ:YHOO) share remained the same from May at 65.5 percent and 15.9 percent, respectively. Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing search service rose from 14.1 percent to 14.4 percent. […]

Gmail Integration Already in production. Connecting the 200 million or so Gmail users with Google+ is a logical product integration. Users have said they want to be able to post content to Google+ from Gmail as well as read comments that others leave on those posts from Gmail. Users also want to receive notifications of […]

The latest spin on the Amazon Android tablet rumor mill has the e-commerce giant pumping out a 9-inch tablet this October to try to catch some of Apple’s iPad magic. You know, the kind of magic that goes with selling between 25 million and 30 million tablets in less than 18 months. Here are the […]

Normally, when I lead off a gadget review, I note how I’ve used a phone/tablet as my primary communications or media consumption device for the past X number of days or weeks. I can’t in good conscience claim that with Sprint’s (NASDAQ:S) Motorola XPRT, which you can buy now for $129.99 on a two-year deal. […]

The Google+ social network has generated a tremendous amount of buzz, as Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) gets ready to bid adieu to the second quarter with its earnings report July 14 after the bell. Investors polled by Thomson Reuters expect the search engine to report net revenue of $6.54 billion, which is up 28 percent from the […]