Clint Boulton

Google CEO Larry Page said during his last earnings conference call that Google+ has more than 90 million users. He declined to reveal the user engagement of those users. Now comScore reveals that Google+ users only spend an average of three minutes there a month, compared with 405 minutes per user on Facebook. People are […]

In a classic high-tech case of if-you-can’t-beat-them-sue-them, Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) Feb. 27 accused partner Facebook of infringing on patents related to social networking and other technologies. Yahoo is struggling to boost user engagement at a time when it is losing eyeballs to Facebook, Google, Twitter and other Internet companies. Yahoo wants Facebook to pay to use […]

Acting on the notion that it is harder to find exploits than security bugs, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is offering up to $1 million in rewards to those who find full and partial exploits in the popular Web browser. The awards, which will be doled out at the Pwn2Own hacking contest at the CanSecWestCanSecWest security conference in […]

While several mobile technology themes came out of Mobile World Congress this week, one that will stick in every mobile watcher’s mind is that the show was a coming-out party for quad-core smartphones. LG, HTC and Huawei all showed off quad-core Android handsets at the event in Barcelona, Spain. Quad-core phones will provide faster performance […]

Telefonica Digital and virtualization powerhouse VMware Feb. 28 unveiled a new service that lets users separate their corporate work data and their personal data on one Android handset. The Telefonica Dual Persona service is designed to help IT departments provision and manage corporate email, applications and data to an employee’s Android device over-the-air via a […]

The whole “Is Google Evil?” meme has grown to be a ridiculous, farcical debate, prone to solemn punditry by some of the most authoritative voices in high tech. I’ve defended Google countless times here, but I’ve never subscribed to the notion that Google is good, much less evil. No business deserves the evil mantle. Well, […]

Dropbox€”not to be outdone by splashy news from its rival Box around Android platform support€”Feb. 24 enabled automatic uploading of photos and videos over Android devices. Dropbox is a provider of cloud-storage services for consumers and businesses. The service has more than 45 million users, competing with the likes of Box and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), which […]

Evidence of a Google-styled tablet has yet to be confirmed from Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) or anyone else, but it now seems likely the search giant is indeed launching a tablet in the mold of the “pure Google experience” Nexus smartphones sometime this year. Outside Samsung’s Galaxy Tab lineup, Android tablets have yet to catch on. Android […]

HTC unveiled the HTC One series, its first Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” smartphones, which will begin shipping globally in April through more than 140 mobile operators and distributors. Unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 26, the phone maker’s new handsets include the HTC One X 4G LTE (Long Term […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) said it is seeing 850,000 new Android handsets and tablets activated each day, a mark that should rise to 1 million daily activations in a couple months. Andy Rubin, creator of Android and senior vice president of mobile and digital content for Google, made the announcement in a blog post published to accompany […]