Clint Boulton

Droid X 2 Unboxed The Droid X2 looks an awful lot like its older cousin. Droid X Comparison Actually, the Droid X2 is the spitting image of the Droid X, from the physical input buttons to the lone speaker atop the screen and the company and provider logos. Check it out. Side Dimensions The X2 […]

Google May 24 said it put $55 million into the Alta Wind Energy Center (AWEC), pushing the company’s clean power cash infusions to $400 million. Situated in southern California’s wind-blown Mojave Desert, AWEC when complete will create 1,550 megawatts (MW) of energy, or enough to power 450,000 homes. AWEC should boost California’s wind generation by […]

Google’s long-rumored mobile payment system is expected to come to fruition May 26, with company officials demonstrating a service that lets users purchase goods, cash in coupons and do other tasks with their smartphones. The mobile payment platform, which will be demonstrated May 26 in Google’s New York office, will leverage the NFC (near field […]

Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZW) began selling the Motorola Droid X2 smartphone online May 19 for $199.99, with the Android 2.2-based follow-up to the smash-hit Droid X from last July readily available in Verizon retail stores May 26. That’s tomorrow, folks. I’ve been using the Droid X as my personal smartphone since November. Rather than comparing the […]

YouTube celebrated its sixth birthday this month by announcing it has surpassed over 48 hours of video uploaded to the video-sharing Website every minute. That’s a 37 percent bump from last November, when YouTube averaged 35 hours of video uploaded per minute. More impressively, that’s a 100 percent hike from 2009, when YouTube said it […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) quietly purchased Sparkbuy, a vertical search engine that specializes in helping consumers find the right laptop. Sparkbuy users click features that are important to them in a new laptop, from RAM and CPU benchmarks to weight and price. Sparkbuy also looks at whether the computer will play well with Photoshop and other technologies. […]

Motorola Mobility said that some of its leading Droid smartphones will get the bump to Google’s Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” operating system later this year. A Motorola spokesperson confirmed the Droid X, Droid Pro, Droid 2 and Droid 2 Global handsets would get the latest build in a company support forum, as noted by Computer World. […]

Jive Software is ramping up its acquisition pace with the acquisition of OffiSync, a software-integration tool that lets users search and annotate documents. Financial terms of the deal, which comes 6 weeks after Jive acquired big data company Proximal Labs, were not disclosed. Jive and OffiSync together will interact with Microsoft Office and SharePoint software, […]

The refreshed Yahoo Mail is coming out of beta and will be available worldwide in the coming weeks, the struggling Internet company promised. Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) launched the new Yahoo Mail last fall, pledging a Webmail experience that is twice as fast as the previous version. The company also relied on its integration partnerships with Facebook, […]

Google eBooks has been on the market 6 months, an amazing amount of time for the search engine to go without publicizing pretty much anything about the digital book service designed to tackle Amazon and Apple from behind in the e-reading market. Last week, Google added dictionary, translation and search capabilities, showing that the gorilla […]

For anyone who came away from Google I/O believing Google (GOOG:NASDAQ) was entering the hardware computer business with some stripped-down notebooks, they were mistaken. Certainly, Google officials touted Samsung and Acer notebooks based on the company’s Chrome Operating System for running applications strictly in the cloud, hosted on Google’s servers. The Samsung Series 5 Chromebook […]

Galaxy Tab 10.1 Unboxed Here is the Galaxy Tab 10.1 unpacked. While the Xoom felt heavy at 1.6 pounds, the Tab 10.1 is a lightweight at 1.31 pounds. That’s almost one small smartphone’s worth less weight than the Xoom, ranking with the iPad 2’s 1.33 pounds. The Tabs Thin Frame Can you say thin? The […]