Clint Boulton

Danny Sullivan, the Search Engine Land head who has been dogged in his criticism of Google’s Search plus your world feature, scored a nice interview with the company’s search head, Amit Singhal. If you’ve been following the SPYW coverage, you should read it because it reveals much about the company’s mindset concerning the way it […]

Google+ is now accepting teenage members aged 13 and up in most countries, giving the social network a major demographic to target as it seeks to grow its current user base of 90 million users. Twitter and Facebook have also set 13 as the minimum age users can join their social networks, so in a […]

A nasty piece of malware called Android.Counterclank that Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) said has the highest distribution of any malware this year to date is making the rounds on Android smartphones and tablet computers. Symantec counts anywhere from 1 million to 5 million combined downloads of the malware, spanning 13 different application titles. Android.Counterclank is a variant […]

Consumers may purchase the Samsung Galaxy Nexus for $99 from Amazon Wireless for a limited time, a $200 discount, the e-commerce giant said Jan. 26. The stipulation for this deal is that consumers must sign up for a new Verizon Wireless contract, including individual or family plans. The Galaxy Nexus, which Verizon began selling Dec. […]

Several U.S. senators Jan. 26 fired off a bipartisan letter to Google CEO Larry Page, asking for more information about the search engine provider’s revised privacy policy. Google Jan. 24 announced that it will aggregate 60 of its Web services under one single privacy policy. Under this new policy, a user with a Google account […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) continued its wholesale integration of Google+ with its existing applications, launching Google Earth 6.2 with the capability to let users share their virtual images with their contacts on the social network. Google Earth 6.2 includes the option to let users share a screenshot of their current Google Earth image, as well as images […]

Owing to write-off costs from its impending acquisition by Google, Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) Jan. 27 reported a net loss of $80 million for the fourth quarter 2011 on 27 cents earnings per share (EPS), compared to a profit of $80 million for Q4 2010. The Android phone and tablet maker’s revenues for the quarter totaled […]

1) Front View Here is the Spectrum and its 4.5 inches of touch-screen real estate. Note the three Android control buttons under the LG logo. From left to right, there is a settings button, the home button and a back button. They’re not virtual, but they lie under the Gorilla Glass. As a consequence, you […]

Google is providing two new perks for Google Music users, including the ability to shuttle their tracks from the music locker and share YouTube videos. Users have been able to upload up to 20,000 songs to the Google Music locker and play them on their Android smartphone or tablet since the full, non-beta service launched […]

It’s no secret it behooves Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) to support efforts to make the Web faster, as a faster Web means the company can serve more searches, YouTube videos and other content. Google, which built a Domain Name System to help Web pages load faster, is looking at other ways of accelerating data packets traversing the […]