Clint Boulton

1) Kindle Fire Powers Android Tablet Share Strategy Analytics revealed that the Kindle Fire helped power market share for tablets based on Google’s Android operating system to 39 percent market share for the fourth quarter of 2011, up from 29 percent a year ago. 2) Apple iPad Q4 Sales Apple may have sold 15.4 million-plus […]

There is a long-held belief that the majority of Google App customers are small mom-and-pop shops, ranging between two and 10 employees. Technically, that is true of the 4 million-plus businesses using Google Apps. However, there are more companies of scale using Apps than you might think, according to a new analysis by Backupify. While […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Jan. 31 assured Congress that it is changing its privacy policies to make them easier to manage and improve the company’s existing Web services for its users. “By folding more than 60 product-specific privacy policies into our main Google one, we’re explaining our privacy commitments to users of those products in 85 percent […]

Buzz that Facebook will file for an initial public offering (IPO) Feb. 1 has marketing and advertising experts expecting the social network to challenge Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) at a time when the search giant is trying to ramp up its own ad targeting efforts. While Google has commanded the market for search advertising for a decade, […]

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) isn’t a company prone to revealing unit sales for its Kindle line of e-readers and tablets, providing a constant source of consternation for analysts trying to model the e-commerce giant’s financial results. That hasn’t stopped the analysts from prognosticating based on word of mouth, and the guessing game is reaching a crescendo as […]

1) Razr Maxx Revealed The handset appears very much like its Droid Razr predecessor, which Motorola launched in November. 2) Maxx Rear View The phone has the same textured, gray back as the Razr, as well as the 8-megapixel rear and 1.3MP front cameras for photography fans. 3) Razr Maxx from the Side You’d expect […]

Motorola’s Droid Razr Maxx, on sale from Verizon Wireless for $299.99 with a two-year contract, is the first smartphone that qualifies as a power mobile data user’s best friend because it has the best battery life on an Android smartphone I’ve ever tested. The Android 2.3 Gingerbread phone offers all the features of its Droid […]

The LG Spectrum smartphone, available now from Verizon Wireless for $199.99 on contract, is the latest in a long line of multimedia-friendly Android handsets that flaunt large screens, big battery life and powerful application processing. It’s quite possible, this Android 2.3 Gingerbread 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) smartphone, powered by Qualcomm’s 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S3 […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) shelled out $1.97 billion in cash and stock for a record 79 acquisitions in 2011, the biggest of which was the company’s $676 million purchase of ITA Software. The search engine leader, which disclosed the numbers in its 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, agreed to purchase travel software maker ITA […]

Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire has managed to become the first tablet based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system to see demonstrable application usage in a short period, suggesting that the 7-inch slate has become quite the content driver for the e-commerce giant. The tablet, which only launched Nov. 15, has already matched the Samsung Galaxy […]