Clint Boulton

Chromebook Station Samsung’s massive booth display included this nifty little station for its two new Chromebooks. New Notebook Design This new Series 5 improves upon the older white and silver models, borrowing the polished metal look of its Series 5 ultrabooks. It’s also much more powerful, upgrading from an Intel Atom processor to Intel’s Celeron […]

Updated: It didn’t take long for privacy advocates to launch their crusade against Google’s “Search, plus your world” social search feature, which attempts to surface photos, posts and people from users’ Google+ accounts. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said Jan. 12 it will file a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission that Google’s […]

Droid 4 The handset continues the original Droid line, which put Android on the map as a mobile platform in 2009. This one has a 4-inch quarter-high-definition (qHD) display eWEEK can’t wait to test soon on the Verizon network. Droid 4 Keyboard The Droid 4, which runs Gingerbread but will be upgraded to Ice Cream […]

The Intel Reference Design Smartphone Intel created the reference design, which has a 4-inch, high-resolution LCD touch-screen and 1,400mHa battery, for OEMs to quickly test out new handset variations at a low cost. Kayak Application The handset, which is less than 10mm thick, had plenty of applications that Intel testers installed to evaluate, including Kayak […]

One of my last stops here at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show Jan. 11 was to check out what Marvell Semiconductor had done for Google TV. Few will disagree chipsets aren’t as sexy as smart TVs, Blu-ray players or companion boxes, but Marvell aims to be the chief processor OEM for all of those […]

Snapdragon Snapdragon is the market-leading mobile chipset. Jacobs said Qualcomm shipped more than 7 billion chipsets worldwide at a time when there are more than 6 billion cellular connections around the world. The company’s Snapdragon processors are in more than 300 mobile-device models worldwide. They will be installed in another 300 new models soon. Android […]

Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing search engine in December surpassed partner and rival Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) in search, grabbing 15.1 percent U.S. share, according to comScore’s latest statistics. Yahoo can credit Bing and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) for taking its share, which slipped from 15.1 percent in November to 14.5 percent to finish 2011, a precipitous drop at a time […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) thought it cracked the incredibly hard nut that proved to be social search. Instead, it drew the ire of Twitter, media and other high-tech pundits with its new Search, plus your world personal search feature. Search, plus your world lets searchers who are members of Google+ and are signed into their Google account […]

Jean-Louis Gassée raised an interesting point about whether Samsung, which, if you believe the reports, is on pace to sell between 30 million and 35 million phones from October to December, holds some sway over Google, the steward of the Android handsets Samsung has ascended to stardom with in the mobile realm. Google Executive Eric […]

LAS VEGAS–Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Executive Eric Schmidt fanned the flames for claims against Android by denying that any fragmentation exists in the operating system. Schmidt, who spoke during CNET’s “The Next Big Thing in CE” event here at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, discussed Android, Microsoft, cloud computing and other topics the former Google CEO has […]