Clint Boulton

Ford Motor Company is using Google’s Prediction API to improve energy efficiency in its cars, the company said. The Prediction API is a tool developers can use to, for example, write applications that recommend content such as movies or target key customers. The tool leverages Google’s massive cloud of servers and storage. At Google I/O […]

Google set aside $500 million to satisfy the Justice Department’s allegation that the search engine served ads from online pharmacies that violated U.S. laws. The Wall Street Journal, which uncovered the news after Google befuddled press with an intentionally vague regulatory filing this week, said Google made hundreds of millions of dollars from the ads. […]

Open Accessory API This API will allow developers to support a variety of hardware accessories that enable Android to run on devices way beyond the typical mobile phone and IT environments, such as on exercise bicycles or other household appliances. “Think of it as the beginning of the next wave of Android,” said Hugo Barra, […]

That Amazon.com is building a tablet is no longer a question of if, but when we will see the long-rumored device. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told Consumer Reports to “stay tuned” in answer to a question about whether it was building a multi-purpose slate to complement its uni-purpose Kindle e-reader. “We will always be very […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Google officials made their most aggressive push for cloud computing yet here at Google I/O May 11, unveiling notebooks based on its lightweight Chrome operating system. The Chrome OS model urges consumers, businesses and schools to store their content entirely in Google’s cloud of servers, accessing Web applications such as Gmail and Google Docs […]

Sundar Pichai Google VP Sundar Pichai touts Chrome OS during the keynote. Chrome Browser Features Pichai lists the benefits of the Chrome browser here. Samsung Series 5 Here is Samsung’s Chromebook, offering users a 12.1-inch screen and 8.5 hours of continuous usage, supported by a dual-core Intel Atom processor. Acer Chromebook Acer’s notebook is a […]

Pichai Prepares to Tout Chrome Pichai, who said Chrome OS notebooks are on time for the summer, prepares to tout Chrome browser metrics. Chrome Google’s Chrome browser now has 160 million users, up from 120 million through December and more than double the 70 million Pichai quoted at Google I/O last year. The browser has […]

Google I/O is really shaping up to be Christmas in May. Last year it was a free HTC Evo 4G. This year, it’s a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 limited edition tablet and a free Verizon mobile hotspot and SIM card. See the Tab unboxed: What will it be next year? One of those Life Fitness […]

Honeycomb 3.1 Honeycomb 3.1 includes several new features to improve the Web browsing and user experience for tablets such as the Motorola Xoom. The upgrade has rolled out on the Verizon 3G-powered Xoom. Better Widgets Honeycomb widgets are nice and customizable, but Google is letting developers create widgets that users may resize horizontally and vertically. […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Google’s Android Market, which recently passed the 200,000-application milestone, received a handful of features geared toward improving the user experience. The Android Market isn’t terrible, but it’s certainly been lacking some of the glossy polish that mobile app users have come to associate from consuming apps through Apple’s App Store, which has over 300,000 […]

Queuing Up for Chotskies The scene on the first floor of the Moscone Center West, with developers lining up to claim their free T-shirts. Calm Before the Storm After the 5,000 attendees lined up outside the third floor keynote hall, they ran for their seats in the auditorium. Here’s the view from the press seating. […]

What you’re looking at above is a screenshot of a picture I took of an unnamed coalition initiated by Google to curb some of the massive fragmentation going on within the Android ecosystem. These partners will be eligible for software updates 18 months into the future, provided the hardware allows for it. Hugo Barra, vice […]