Clint Boulton

Samsung and Google are hosting an event for their co-created netbook based on Google’s Chrome operating system after Google I/O, eWEEK has learned. eWEEK received an invitation on May 5 from Samsung “to join us and Google for a night of firsts following the conclusion of Google I/O”. The May 11 event begins at 6 […]

Xobni May 3 took its next step in its progression toward building a more productive inbox by letting users access applications made by Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce.com and others from Microsoft’s Outlook email program. Xobni for Outlook is the company’s free plug-in users can download to help sift through and search the troves of email data, […]

Google is hiding free tethering applications from users of its Android smartphones at the behest of carriers such as Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile, according to gadget blogs. Tethering capabilities let people connect their laptops to the Web via their smartphones’ Internet connections. The extra devices place added demands on carriers’ 3G and 4G networks. […]

Many publications have called attention to the new Google Chrome Web browser advertisements Google began running on network television May 3. The 90-second ad spot, dubbed “Dear Sophie,” shows a father who sets up a Gmail account for his daughter. He begins emailing her pictures (from Google’s Picasa Web Albums) of her life’s stages from […]

South Korea continues to put the screws to Google as authorities in the country raided Google’s office there to investigate whether the search engine has been collecting users’ location data through its mobile ad platform. Seoul’s Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA) descended on Google’s office May 3 looking into allegations that Google’s AdMob platform was used […]

Google said Sprint switched on its integration of Google Voice, which will allow Sprint customers to use their existing Sprint number as their Google Voice number to ring any phones when people call their mobile phone. Users may also choose to replace their existing Sprint number with their mobile Google Voice number. This means all […]

Lazaridis Lazaridis takes the keynote stage around 9 a.m. Lazaridis Launches Barrage of Statistics Lazaridis reveals the up-to-date RIM BlackBerry statistics. Normally 15 million smartphones sold in a quarter is great, but RIM is being squeezed by Apple’s iPhone and Android handsets, which combined to sell more than twice that number in the same quarter. […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-Research In Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis spent a good portion of his RIM Capital Markets Day presentation boasting about the features of the new BlackBerry PlayBook, which he also apologized for launching late as Apple’s iPad seized and defined the market. Lazaridis was upbeat, bullish and occasionally defensive about the PlayBook and other products […]

Research In Motion May 2 launched BlackBerry Balance, software technology that lets BlackBerry smartphone users access their handsets for work and personal content while preserving security of the device. Although it presents a unified view of work and personal content on the same BlackBerry handset, BlackBerry Balance separates content into zones. These zones are imperceptible […]

Demo Alan Panezic, RIMs vice president of software, shows the media that his presentation is playing via the PlayBook, which he said now has over 3,000 apps created to run on it. Consumers View Though RIM caters primarily to enterprise users, Panezic explains the consumer viewpoint of smartphones, tablets and PCs and how the PlayBook […]

Google cares about location. A lot. Duh. As congressional inquiries against smartphone software providers’ use of location data to improve Web services mount, The Wall Street Journal and San Jose Mercury News both cited email messages between Google co-founder Larry Page and Google location product manager Steve Lee that underscored the importance of location data […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – Research In Motion May 2 said it acquired Ubitexx, a software maker that will enable RIM to help its enterprise customers securely manage Apple iOS and Google Android smartphones and tablets. Financial terms of the buyout, announced at the Blackberry World developer’s conference here, were not disclosed. RIM will augment its Blackberry […]