Clint Boulton

LAS VEGAS-Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI) Jan. 10 inked a multiyear, strategic agreement in which Motorola will sell smartphones based on Intel’s Atom processor Z2460 platform, starting in the second half of 2012. Intel CEO Paul Otellini and Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha announced their new pact on stage here at the 2012 […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) finally managed to fashion a credible social search solution, using its Google+ network to include Picasa photos, posts and other personalized content in users’ search results. Called “Search, plus your world,” the new feature is a way to combat the “faceless Web” problem of highly impersonal search results Google, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) […]

LAS VEGAS – Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) CEO Paul Otellini is expected to tout the company’s mobile processor technologies and road map during his keynote at the 2012 Consumer Electronic Show here Jan. 10. But this isn’t the desktop market, and Intel is going to have to go through Qualcomm first. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs reinforced why […]

LAS VEGAS–Sony and Vizio introduced Blu-ray disc players and media streaming devices capable of delivering Google TV, the embattled Web TV software platform the search engine hopes to breathe new life into with the help of its OEM partners. Sony showed off the NSZ-GS7 Network Media Player and NSZ-GP9 Blu-ray disc player Jan. 9 at […]

Every year for CES (the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, for the uninitiated), I receive scores of pitches about glasses, wrist watches and other gadgets that aim to augment reality or at least pop it out in a lively way via 3D. When I stop by these booths, I’m regaled with tales from these gadget […]

Media who proclaimed carriers were keeping a low profile at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas were sorely mistaken. AT&T (NYSE:T), Verizon Wireless and Sprint (NYSE:S) Jan. 9 all announced major handsets, most of which are based on Google’s Android operating system. AT&T arguably made the loudest noise, unveiling five handsets and a […]

Acer wants to challenge Apple’s Macbook Air with the Aspire S5 ultrabook, a thin, low-weight computer running Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows 7 operating system that boots up fast. Unveiled Jan. 8 at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the Aspire S5 measures 15 millimeters at its thickets point and has a 13.3-inch LCD display. […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) mobile ad revenue could top $4 billion alone in 2012, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, whose estimates come from the company’s huge industry footprint on Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone and iPad and smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system. Thanks to platforms such as AdSense for mobile and the AdMob unit, Google […]

A Spare, 7-Inch Slate This is one of the smaller 7-inch tablets we’ve gotten our mitts on. It weighs only .78 pounds, making it a super lightweight in terms of portability. It measures 7.4 inches long, 4.4 inches wide and 0.48 inches thick. The white plastic back cover made frequent clicking and creaking noises when […]

John Battelle offered this great chart above summarizing by strengths and weaknesses in the areas where Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon compete. He calls these the Internet Big Five. “For me, these product lines, taken together, are the basis of what we might call ‘the operating system of our lives,’ Battelle wrote. Indeed. It’s […]