Clint Boulton

Skype, the world’s leading voice over IP service in the process of being acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) for $8.5 billion, has expanded its integration with Facebook. Skype 5.5 Beta version for Windows will now let users send instant messages to their Facebook Chat friends directly from Skype. Skype users will be able to check the […]

Huawei introduced MediaPad, a 7-inch tablet computer running Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) forthcoming Android 3.2 “Honeycomb” powered by a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.2GHz processor. Huawei, which unveiled its plan June 20 at the CommunicAsia conference in Singapore, said the device weighs less than a pound and is less than a half-inch thick. The slate supports 1080P full […]

Everyone allied with Apple Allied (or Axis, depending on what side of the Apple iOS-Android fence you sit) power is gloating about how Google Android tablets don’t compete with the hallowed iPad, which is unofficially recognized as the Holy Grail of tabletry. Usually, this comes in the form of reports citing financial analysts marking down […]

When AT&T (NYSE:T) bid to buy T-Mobile March 20, large vendors were mum on the $39 billion deal that would unite the top U.S. wireless carrier with the No. 4 player in the market. Chief among all of the reasons for triggering such a blockbuster deal is that AT&T needs T-Mobile’s fiber infrastructure and expertise […]

Google struck a deal with the British Library to scan 250,000 books that are out of copyright, part of the search engine’s ongoing mission to organize the world’s books online and make them available to users. Intended to help literary scholars and other parties interested in academic pursuits, the project includes printed books, pamphlets and […]

Google has acquired SageTV, which makes digital video recording and media management software for home entertainment centers, for an undisclosed sum. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) declined to say how many employees from SageTV would be joining the company, where they will be based or what they will do. However, the team will almost certainly be deployed to […]

While Google prepares to get its Google Wallet mobile payment service based on traditional near field communications technology into New York and San Francisco markets this summer, a startup is taking a different tack with NFC: ultrasonics. NFC is a wireless technology that enables short-range communications between devices, such as smartphones and a point-of-sale (POS) […]

Google’s Inside Search event wrapped less than a week ago, but folks are already finding new stuff the search engine is testing. That includes a new user interface for search results pages in Google.com, as well as a new trademark for Photovine, which may ultimately include facial recognition software down the road. Ho-hum, just the […]

While the U.S. Justice Department cleared Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to bid for Nortel Networks’ (NYSE:NT) $6,000-plus patents, last week, no one believed Google would get a shot at that wireless networking treasure trove uncontested. The problem was, the rival bidders had yet to be revealed… until now. Google’s top mobile rival Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), chipmaker Intel […]

Those looking for Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) next-generation search functionality-the mobile, social and location-based “contextual discovery” at Google’s Inside Search event June 14-may have been disappointed. What attendees, search experts and industry watchers got was more of the same, even though some of that same was impressive and perhaps critical to Google’s push to stay ahead of […]

Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) confirmed what many financial analysts expected June 16 when it reported lower-than-expected earnings for the first quarter as the company felt squeezed by Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android smartphones. RIM reported earnings of $695 million on sales of $4.9 billion compared to financial analyst estimates of $5.15 billion in […]

The U.S. Justice Department is reviewing Google’s bid for display ad provider Admeld, sources familiar with the DOJ’s plans told Bloomberg and others. Google June 13 agreed to buy Admeld, which helps large publishers select and support ads from myriad ad networks, including Advertising.com, Google’s own DoubleClick Ad Exchange and Yahoo’s Right Media. The purchase […]