Clint Boulton

It’s not easy worshipping at the temple of cloud computing. Google and Amazon, which suffered recent outages, know this full well. Now Microsoft, which has gloated over Google’s cloud outages in the past, feels its rivals’ pain. As my eWEEK colleague Nick Kolakowski wrote about the failure that led to Microsoft BPOS customers without email […]

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang confirmed the chipmaker he leads is building Tegra 3 quad-core processors for devices based on Google’s forthcoming Android operating system, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. Prompted by a financial analyst on Nvidia’s first quarter earnings call May 12, Huang said Nvidia is working closely with Google on “Ice Cream Sandwich.” “We’re really […]

Samsung confirmed May 16 that this month it will begin rolling out Google’s Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” operating system for its Galaxy S smartphones and 7-inch Galaxy Tab tablet computer. Gingerbread is Google’s freshest build for Android smartphones, featuring a better virtual keyboard, 3D graphics, a gyroscope and near field communications (NFC). NFC can enable mobile […]

Verizon Wireless is preparing to launch the Motorola Droid X2, the successor to its super popular Android handset, with the latest Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” build for smartphones. Droid Life got the scoop on the device, which it said was rolling out May 26 with promotional pictures showing a device that looks every bit the same […]

It bothered me a bit when Google declined to comment on Facebook’s treachery in what I’ll hammily call Social Circle Gate last week. For those who missed it, Facebook fessed up to hiring Burson-Marstellar to plant stories about Google infringing on user privacy with Social Circle, a feature that scrapes Google Account users’ connections to […]

Music Logo Google introduces Music Beta by Google, which will allow users to pump up their songs into the search engine’s cloud. This removes the step of using wires and cables used to port music from computers to mobile devices. Uploading Check out the uploading interface, which allows users to move their content from iTunes […]

It’s been tempting for media and analysts to look at Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of VOIP provider Skype as an assault on the Google Voice cloud calling service. Google Voice has perhaps a few million users, while Microsoft would virtually own the VOIP market, as Skype has some 700 million worldwide users. It is believed […]

Google is perhaps making no bigger gamble on its cloud-computing reputation than with the launch of notebooks based on its Chrome operating system. Chrome OS, the search-engine giant’s Web-based platform for computers, eschews the traditional, localized platform and long-running BIOS startup process of Microsoft Windows laptops for Web applications and machines with minimal Flash storage […]

While the media echo chamber continues to rage around Facebook for its hiring of public relations firm Burson-Marstellar to engage in a smear campaign against Google over its social-data collection, the search-engine giant has remained largely silent. While Google acknowledged seeing evidence of Facebook’s stunt, it has taken the high road as it prepares its […]

Netflix May 12 launched its application for Android smartphones, allowing users to watch content instantly via WiFi or 3G connection. The application will let users watching a movie on, say, the train ride home, continue watching it from their Web-connected TV or computer when they get home. Users may also browse content and manage their […]

Verizon Wireless said it will sell the Samsung Droid Charge Android 4G smartphone online from its Website at midnight EDT on May 14 and in all its retail stores later that morning. Samsung and Verizon unveiled the Android 2.2 Droid Charge late April 20, promising to begin selling the 1GHz device for $299.99 with a […]

Samsung Introduction David Steel, executive vice president of Samsung Electronics, introduces the Samsung Series 5, which was presented at a Google I/O keynote earlier in the day. “We’re thrilled to be partnering with Google in launching what we consider to be an entirely new product category,” Steel said. He noted that consumers are spending more […]