Clint Boulton

That’s the top question being asked in the wake of invites sent to media for a Jan. 11 event in New York City that the blogosphere claims will concern the launch of the popular Apple handset on the No. 1 U.S. wireless network. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster acknowledges that he may have forecasted on […]

Google Jan. 10 upgraded its Google Goggles mobile application with speedier barcode scanning and the ability to recognize print ads and solve Sudoku puzzles. Android smartphone and iPhone users can take pictures of locations, art, products, barcodes and other products with their phone’s camera. Goggles will scan the image and conduct a search on Google.com […]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has shown a predisposition toward frankness in his answers to journalists’ questions. He’s even exhibited wit at inopportune times, joking about people’s privacy, which typically private people, and the privacy advocates who try to get everyone riled up, found to be no laughing matter. So I’m curious as to how Schmidt […]

Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha was effusive in his praise of the Motorola Atrix 4G smartphone. The Android 2.2-based handset is shaping up to be the most attractive Android smartphone AT&T will have ever launched when it lands this quarter.Jha on Jan. 5 at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show raved about the Atriz 4G’s 4-inch […]

There’s no question Apple’s iPad set the bar high for tablet computers last spring. The device has sold anywhere from 13 million to 14.5 million units. Samsung’s Galaxy Tab sold 1 million units in a few months, but this tablet is powered by Android 2.2, which not even Google would claim was optimized for the […]

Last Friday night the cry rang out: the Verizon iPhone is coming, the Verizon iPhone is coming. Several journalists and bloggers received this invite to a press event helmed by Verizon President and COO Lowell McAdam slated for Jan. 11 in New York. All indications this is the Verizon iPhone coming-out party we’ve been waiting […]

Engadget scored this sweet interview with Google’s Android user-experience lead Matias Duarte, who discussed the new Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) operating system powering the Motorola Xoom when Verizon Wireless launches it next month he helped craft. Duarte, who left Palm after creating the heralded webOS user interface, explains in a politic way why he joined Google: […]

Tablets may have defined the geeky gestalt of the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, but the show will also be undoubtedly viewed as the coming-out party for smartphones and a tablet with dual-core processors. Motorola’s Atrix 4G handset, Droid Bionic smartphone and Motorola Xoom tablet will all run Nvidia Tegra 2 chips, which feature two 1GHz […]

Google’s Android operating system put in quite a strong showing at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show this week, but the search engine every now and then likes to remind people that it makes money from ads served on its 100-plus handsets and tablets. Google Jan. 6 said that its AdMob network is currently receiving more […]

Despite the hullabaloo over 4G LTE networks at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show this week, new research from Nielsen shows Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile are struggling to get the message of their 4G data networks across. Nielsen surveyed more than 2,100 U.S. adults and found one in five wireless consumers are not aware of […]

Samsung Electronics Jan. 7 joined Sony, Logitech and Vizio as a hardware partner for Google TV, unveiling a new Blu-ray Player and companion box for the Web TV surfing service at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. The new Blu-ray player and companion box was available to test at CES throughout the show. Google TV users […]

Google got a boost in its battle versus Microsoft when a federal judge froze the Department of Interior from accepting Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite for e-mail and collaboration software. Federal Judge Susan Braden issued a preliminary injunction to prevent the Interior Department from deciding to use Microsoft BPOS for its 88,000 employees without mulling […]