Clint Boulton

Google lowered its first-quarter net income by $500 million, setting aside the profit cash as part of a resolution to the Justice Department’s investigation of its advertising practices. Google reported Q1 income of $2.3 billion April 14. As a result of the DOJ’s scrutiny, the search engine could bank $1.8 billion instead, according to the […]

Google’s U.S. search share slipped a touch in April, but still hit the 65 percent mark as Microsoft’s Bing search engine continued to rack up share. Search leader Google notched 65.4 percent for the month, down from 65.7 percent through March, according to comScore. No. 2 player Yahoo nabbed 15.9 percent, up from 15.7 percent […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Google took another step forward in delivering on its vision for delivering cloud computers, introducing notebooks based on its Chrome operating system from Samsung and Acer here at Google I/O May 11. The Samsung Series 5 Chromebook will be available in the United States and in the U.K., France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy and Spain. […]

SAN FRANCISCO-Google May 10 introduced a new version of Android 3.1 “Honeycomb,” an incremental upgrade of its tablet-optimized operating system, at its Google I/O developers’ conference here. The upgrade, rolling out today to owners of the Motorola Xoom on Verizon’s 3G network, improves upon Honeycomb’s intensive customization capabilities with homescreen widgets that developers can create […]

Google rolled out Chrome 12 to beta May 9, loading up the build with better graphics by adding support for hardware-accelerated 3D CSS, and bolstering its Safe Browsing technology. The 3D CSS lets developers add 3D effects to Web content. Meanwhile, the fresh Safe Browsing release will still proect users from malware and phishing Websites, […]

Google’s YouTube video sharing Website entered the streaming video fray in mass May 9, offering 3,000 movie titles in a bid to compete with Netflix and Amazon.com in the burgeoning market for on-demand video. YouTube said it will sell various and sundry popular Hollywood films, as well as a smattering of independent and foreign fare […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Google May 10 took the wraps off of its Music Beta by Google streaming music service, the search engine’s bid to challenge Apple’s iTunes and Amazon.com music services. Demonstrated at Google I/O, the company’s fourth annual conference for developers, Music Beta lets users upload their personal music collection to Google’s servers, which […]

Research In Motion On top of our list is Research In Motion, whose co-CEO Mike Lazaridis once called Nortel’s patent war chest a “national treasure.” RIM, which has been hemorrhaging smartphone market share to Google’s Android platform and Apple’s iPhone, is reportedly weighing whether to outbid Google for the Nortel patents. Apple Apple is certainly […]

Google’s Android operating system has helped smartphone makers Samsung and HTC roughly double their market share, as the smartphone market accelerated in the first quarter from a year ago, according to IDC. Nokia, Apple and RIM paced the smartphone market with 24.3 percent, 18.7 percent and 14 percent market share for Q1, respectively. While Apple’s […]

Motorola Mobility ramped sales 22 percent for the first quarter 2011 and shipped 4.1 million Android smartphones, but it can hardly be said that it’s in a comfort zone. For one, the company’s Motorola Xoom, the first tablet to use Google’s new Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” operating system tailored for tablets, was characterized as rough, unfinished […]

Google News served as a landing place for more than 150,000 articles in the five days since U.S. President Barack Obama announced the killing of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Google Maps users marked the location of the compound in Abbottabad where bin Laden was killed by […]

Google May 9 added better search history and business card recognition, as well as results sharing to Google Goggles, lending some personal touches to the visual-search application. Google Goggles allows users to snap pictures of objects with the cameras from their Android smartphone or Apple iPhone. The application is limited in the scope of its […]