Clint Boulton

While many expect the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show to be a big coming-out party for the Android tablet, Forrester Research has revised its previous conservative estimates and now expects the 2011 tablet market to be 2.5 times what it was in 2010. Forrester analyst Sara Rotman Epps said Jan. 4 that she expects tablet sales […]

LAS VEGAS-Intel CEO Paul Otellini introduced the chipmaker’s new second-generation Core processor set at the Consumer Electronics Show here-a line of 20 chips that will shore up a PC and laptop market challenged by the rise of tablets and other mobile gadgets. Code-named Sandy Bridge, the new Core chips (Intel Core i7, i5 and i3 […]

In one of the worst-kept secrets among Google Watchers, Google is building a payment and ad service that would let users buy products by tapping or waving their mobile phones against a register at checkout. The service is propelled by Google’s NFC (Near Field Communication) technology, a short-range wireless communications protocol. The technology lets users […]

Google’s Android operating system powered 40.8 percent of smartphones purchased in the last six months, though Apple iOS led the United States in consumer market share, according to the Nielsen Company. Since June 2010, 27 percent of devices purchased ran iOS, while 19 percent bought were Research In Motion BlackBerry handsets, according to the market […]

A year ago at this time, the world was wondering whether Verizon Wireless would launch Apple’s iPhone on its leading network. Now, it’s not a matter of if–but when–as Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster put the probability that Verizon would launch a CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) version of Apple’s iPhone by the company’s March […]

Rumors of Google TV delays by hardware partners may have been exaggerated. Vizio on Jan. 3 announced it would demonstrate TV sets and Blu-ray players preloaded with the Web-meets-TV service at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. Vizio said it will show off the VIA Plus 47-inch XVT3D476SV and 56-inch XVT3D556SV HDTVs at their private CES […]

Google’s Don Dodge is having a grand ole time with his Google Chrome-based Cr-48 test notebook. I have fun with mine, too, and I’ve been installing apps from the Chrome Web Store left and right, including Google Docs, Google Reader, Google Maps, Amazon Window Shop, TweetDeck and NPR for Chrome. All worked well. Noting that […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg regularly downplays talk of an IPO, but his social network company has achieved the scale, and now the funding, of a company to warrant it. Facebook has reportedly banked $500 million from Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies, valuing the company at $50 billion, according to The New York Times. Goldman […]

Eyeing Apple’s digital content strategy, Google is making a stronger push for getting major publications onto smartphones and tablet computers based on the Android operating system. The search engine is courting publishers to build versions of their publications tailored for Android mobile gadgets for a new “Google-operated digital newsstand,” according to the Wall Street Journal. […]

Google’s Chrome Web browser finished 2010 just shy of the 10 percent mark, notching 9.98 percent of browser market share through December in a year where it started at 5.2 percent. It’s also a big hike from November, when Google grabbed 9.27 percent share, up from 8.5 percent in October, according to the latest statistics […]

Verizon Wireless is hacking the price of its Samsung Galaxy Tab by $100, offering the popular tablet for $499 and throwing in $60 worth of free movie rentals to boost sales in the new year. Droid Life, which said the movie rentals will come via the integrated Blockbuster application Verizon includes on its or the […]

Verizon Wireless will unveil several 4G smartphones and at least one tablet computer based on Google’s Android operating system at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. Verizon Wireless has made no secret that this CES will be its coming-out party for 4G long-term evolution wireless technology, which provides data speeds comparable to land-based cable modems and […]