Clint Boulton

Padfone: Tablet Meets Phone The Padfone includes a 4.3-inch smartphone and a 10.1-inch tablet dock companion. Kick It The obvious metaphor here is that users can “kick” content from the Padfone to the dock. Tablet Dock No word yet on what version of Android it will run. Considering the dock is dumb without the phone, […]

I Screaming for Ice Cream Sandwich Ice Cream Sandwich is great in theory. Google will build the operating system, presumably called Android 2.4, with Honeycomb’s 3D holographics, application fragments and other features. Great, but these features were designed specifically for the larger screen real estate of a tablet. How will they work on a smartphone, […]

Anyone expecting a smartphone based on Google’s Chrome operating system will have to wait because it doesn’t seem like the search engine is going that route anytime in the near future. Chrome Vice President Sundar Pichai, pictured with a Chrome OS-based Cr-48 test model last December, told Reuters at Computex that he planned to keep […]

Samsung said it has sold more than 1 million Galaxy S II handsets in Korea in one month, selling one every three seconds. Samsung began selling the Galaxy S II, which runs Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” on a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED Plus (Super active-matrix organic LED Plus) screen and 1.2GHz processor, April 29 in its […]

Google’s Android operating system accounted for 36 percent of U.S. smartphone market share through April, 10 percentage points higher than Apple iOS’s 26 percent share for the iPhone. Research In Motion’s BlackBerry OS ranked No. 3 with 23 percent, according to Nielsen, which said 37 percent of mobile consumers now own a smartphone. Windows Mobile […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs will unveil the Mac OS X “Lion,” build, iOS 5 and its highly anticipated iCloud Web-based services offering during a keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference June 6, the company confirmed. The news, revealed via a brief press release May 31, is a rare preannouncement by a company whose […]

A new report from Pew Internet sheds some light on why Microsoft felt it necessary to pay $8.5 billion for voice over IP giant Skype this month. Nearly one-quarter (24 percent) of U.S. adult Web users, or 19 percent of all American adults, have made calls online using Skype, Vonage or some other VOIP service, […]

I want Google Wallet to succeed, I really do. Wallet is the search engine’s bid to marry a mobile payment application with NFC-enabled Android phones (actually phone, at this point), and partner with financial services firms to let consumers pay for goods by tapping their phone. When the service goes live in New York and […]

Google Wallet This is the Google Wallet logo, which should not to be confused with the now defunct Google Wave service. Take Me to Your Leader Google Wallet is led by Stephanie Tilenius, vice president of commerce and payments at Google. Google poached Tilenius from eBay, where she last served as senior vice president of […]

Amazon.com has not confirmed the existence of an alleged Android tablet computer, but that isn’t stopping one analyst from modeling unit sales for the erstwhile Apple iPad rival. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said he believes Amazon could sell 2.4 million Android tablets in 2012, following a late 2011 launch in time for the holidays. […]

If someone were to tell you that Google just launched flight travel search results without using data it culled from ITA Software, you’d probably think it a joke. You’d be wrong. Less than two months after Google closed a very contentious negotiation to acquire flight data provider ITA for $700 million, the company has begun […]

Following the spectacular failure of the over-hyped Google Wave, executives for the search engine are painfully aware that just because they build a technology they feel is cool and cutting edge, people may not flock to use it, analysts agreed. That’s a big reason why the executives leading the Google Wallet mobile payment effort, which […]