Clint Boulton

Lack of Demand Show of hands: How many of you have ever thought about ditching your wallet for good because you can’t stand carrying it? Our guess is not many. Techies might want to do it because they like the idea of using their smartphone for something else. But the fact is that most of […]

In the latest of several thoughtful blog posts from ex-Googlers about why they left, Dhanji R. Prasanna called out Google’s infrastructure as, well, dated. Prasanna may understandably hold a grudge as one of the many Australian-based team members who worked on the doomed Google Wave collaboration software platform. Yet he said Google is easily the […]

Plagued by rumors of more missed deadlines this summer, embattled BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is facing dark days as it prepares to report first-quarter earnings June 16. RIM said it expects to report Q1 earnings of between $1.30 and $1.37 a share on revenue below $5.2 billion. However, financial analysts believe RIM, which already […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) retained its seemingly locked in 65 percent U.S. search share through May, notching 65.5 percent in Maycompared to 65.4 percent for April. ComScore said Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) and Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing search engines maintained their exact same search share from April, posting 15.9 percent and 14.1 percent shares, respectively. The U.S. made more than […]

Microsoft Bing made some mobile application and browsing moves to make it easier for users to find iPhone applications and share content via Facebook, features the company hopes will differentiate it from Google’s mobile offerings for the iPhone and Android handsets. The Bing team added an auto app discovery feature that surfaces applications in the […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is facing another lawsuit over its operating system, but it isn’t for its Android mobile platform. Intellectual property manager ISYS Technologies sued Google because it claims the search-engine giant’s Chrome operating system infringes on trademarks for its Xi3 ChromiumPC Modular Computer. ISYS wants to stop Google’s retail partners Amazon.com and Best Buy from […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is in the process of purchasing AdMeld, which sells display advertising for large Websites owned by Thomson Reuters and Discovery Communications, and News Corp.’s Fox News and New York Post sites. Google declined to confirm the buy, which TechCrunch first reported and claimed was worth $400 million. Google has more or less locked […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has quietly added a feature to its Android Market Webstore that tells users whether an application is compatible with their registered Android handsets and tablets. On the left side of any application’s Web page in the Android Market online store, users may see a line with a plus button that says, “This application […]

There’s sort of a universally accepted meme that Google’s Android platform had become to the mobile ecosystem what Microsoft Windows was to the desktop, albeit without the gross, per-copy licensing and maintenance fees Microsoft bankrolls with Windows. Strip away Android’s open-source mein, which some would deem pretense because of the proprietary code the search engine […]

Apple WWDC 5,200 developers attended WWDC this year at Moscone West. Google said more than 5,000 developers attended Google I/O at Moscone West last month. We’ll call that a virtual tie. iOS Market Momentum Apple sold 200 million iOS devices to date. Google said that more than 100 million Android devices have shipped to date. […]

Infuse 4G Unleashed The Infuse 4G unboxed. We immediately liked the feel of this handset. Rear Panel Unlike most Samsung Galaxy S smartphones, which feel slick, the back of this thin handheld is coarsely grained for a nice, easy grip. Width This device is thin, as we described, and a thickness of 0.35 inches in […]

Google’s Android mobile-operating system should exceed 40 percent share of smartphones worldwide, with Samsung, HTC and Motorola leading the way with handsets based on the open-source platform, said IDC. The market researcher said June 9 that Android, which Google said is available on more than 300 different smartphones and tablets with 100 million activated worldwide, […]