Clint Boulton

Home Entertainment In May, Google unveiled Android@Home, an experimental play to build and test Web-enabled devices powered by the Android OS. Google software engineer Joe Britt showed off a stereo system that lets users zip a CD’s content to the cloud and stream it wirelessly throughout a house. Last week, it came to light that […]

I would like to say my experience with Samsung’s Galaxy Note, on sale Feb. 19 from AT&T (NYSE:T) for $299.99 on contract, was a super-success, but I cannot. The truth is that making and receiving calls on this Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 2.3 Gingerbread-based smartphone in public made me feel quite self-conscious. Self-conscious enough that I […]

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 […]