Clint Boulton

After spending the last five days using the Samsung Nexus 4G smartphone, which Sprint began selling May 8 for $199.99 on contract, I’m experiencing some serious cognitive dissonance. I love the phone’s hardware and software, but I am not crazy about Sprint’s 4G WiMAX network. The Nexus S 4G is certainly faster than the original […]

The Empire has struck back. More than a year and a half after Google lured the city of Los Angeles to its Google Apps, Microsoft has poached a municipal government customer in the search engine’s own backyard. The city of San Francisco, Google’s home away from its Mountain View, Calif., home, agreed to use Microsoft […]

Research in Motion sold over 250,000 Blackberry PlayBooks since April 19, matching the Motorola Xoom in unit shipments but in half the time, according to analysts. RIM began selling its PlayBook April 19. Motorola began selling its Xoom February 24. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha April 28 reported sales of 250,000 Xooms, which means the inaugural […]

Nexus S 4G Unboxed Sprint is selling the Nexus S 4G for $199.99 with a two-year contract this spring from Sprint retailers and Best Buy stores in the United States. Like the Nexus S, Sprint’s Nexus S 4G is powered by a 1GHz Samsung chip and runs Android 2.3. Nexus S 4G The Nexus S […]

Smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system racked up 53 percent ad impression share, shaving share from Apple’s iOS, according to ad platform Millennial Media. Millennial, which is reportedly mulling an initial public offering, said Apple’s iOS netted 28 percent of ad impressions in April, down from 31 percent in March. Research In Motion’s BlackBerry […]

Microsoft Bing’s deepened integration with Facebook is more of an effort to push users to where its believes search is going rather than where it actually is today. Call it wish fulfillment vis-??í-vis Facebook’s ubiquitous Like button. In the just-fortified friendship with Facebook, Bing is surfacing in search results which Websites users’ friends Liked. Bing […]

Verizon Wireless will begin selling the Motorola Droid X2 online May 19 and in its retail stores May 26 for $199.99 on contract. Launched last July, the Motorola Droid X sold out of stores fast enough to make it hard for Verizon and Motorola to stock the Google Android 2.1 handset, which sported a 1GHz […]

Google argues that cloud computing notebooks based on the company’s Chrome Operating System will over time phase out on-premises machines based on Microsoft’s Windows operating system. At no time has Google pushed its Chrome OS philosophy more than during the Google I/O developer conference, when company officials introduced Chromebooks from Samsung and Acer. Samsung’s Series […]

There’s so much being said about the Microsoft-Skype deal still that I thought I’d call attention to two good pieces. One I agree with, one I don’t. Let’s start in the affirmative. Kevin Fury, formerly designer at Google and currently at Mozilla Labs, has a great, 35,000-foot view of how Microsoft and Nokia, and Apple […]

While many analysts agree that tablets and other mobile devices are gobbling computing share from PCs and netbooks, some are also taking a more sober view of the overall tablet market in 2011. Financial research firms Goldman Sachs and Jefferies & Co. have both ratcheted down expectations for the tablet market, thanks to thin demand […]

Google is upgrading its nearly 10-year-old Google News service with some new aesthetics and tools to improve the user experience. Launched in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, Google News remains a popular news aggregation service at a time when users are increasingly turning to Twitter and TechMeme. These sources […]

Samsung’s Galaxy S II handsets caused quite a stir when the phone maker unveiled prototypes at Mobile World Congress in February, but for now the nomenclature U.S. carriers have affixed to their devices has gadget geeks scratching their heads. An early Webpage from retailer Wireless Xcessories Group lists the Samsung Galaxy S 2 Function from […]