Clint Boulton

Motorola Mobility already has the Motorola Droid 3 pretty well polished, according to three video demonstrations captured by a German blog. PhonePads offered this overview video of the Motorola phone, known outside the United States as the Motorola Milestone 3. The video shows users what the buttons do, including how to power the phone on […]

Research In Motion has launched support for new languages, a refreshed Facebook application, in-application payments and several other upgrades to its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. RIM launched its 7-inch PlayBook tablet based on the QNX operating system April 19 and had enjoyed sales in the hundreds of thousands of the gadget after some early tepid reviews. […]

Perception and market share in the market for mobile devices can change fairly quickly unless you’re Apple, which has enjoyed rock-solid launches of the iPod music player, iPhone smartphone and iPad tablet. For devices based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) now ubiquitous Android mobile operating system, it’s another matter. After Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI) CEO Sanjay Jha […]

Sprint, which has been pushing Android products at a speedy rate of late, will begin selling the HTC Evo 3D smartphone and HTC Evo View 4G tablet June 24. Sprint, which recently launched the Kyocera Echo and Samsung Nexus S 4G Android smartphones, is selling the Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” handset for $199.99 with a two-year […]

Another prominent equity research firm has ratcheted down its expectations for the tablet market, thanks to weaker-than-expected sales of slates other than Apple’s iPad. JP Morgan said build plans for tablets other than the iPad have slowed, with a prediscounted stockpile of 73 million units versus the firm’s March 9 tally of 81 million slates. […]

Once again, a brave soul has suggested that Facebook could kill Google thanks to its vast treasure trove of user data and its increasing ability to help users find a lot of information they would normally find on Google. Or at least ensure the info finds them. The latest in this parade of provocateur is […]

Google Wallet, the search engine’s efforts to enable mobile payments using near-field communication technology from smartphones, has a number of challenges it must overcome to succeed. One is obviously the general lack of interest in mobile payments via smartphones at a time when the vast majority of people happily use wallets. The second-biggest barrier to […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) June 3 said it has purchased PostRank, a startup whose software sifts through social media to disambiguate signal from noise. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. ReadWriteWeb, which uses PostRank, explained that users may plug in any RSS feed to PostRank, which scores each post in that feed by the number […]

The first week of June 2011 may be looked back on as the week Groupon and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) reached pivotal points in their paths toward contextual discovery. Groupon filed for a $750 million initial public offering and is making investors pull their hair out over the fact that the company owes $230 million and is […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android mobile operating system and Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) rival iOS platform continued to gain market share in April, whittling away share from rivals Research in Motion’s BlackBerry and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Mobile. ComScore said Android paced the field with 36.4 percent U.S. smartphone market share, up nearly 2 percentage points from 34.7 percent in […]

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) said it will on Aug. 1 phase out support for older versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari in its Google Apps collaboration software. The search-engine giant has been putting most of its wood behind HTML5, upgrading its own applications to support the fresher Web markup language. Google’s own […]

Gmail Google’s Gmail Webmail application has been the target for sophisticated hacks out of China, the search giant claims. This includes access to government officials’ accounts. Strong Passwords This might seem obvious, but it’s wise to use strong, tricky passwords with capital and lowercase letters, numbers and other symbols. Also, change your password regularly and […]