Hewlett-Packard’s Chromebook 11 is now available with LTE — and can be purchased at Best Buy stores. The 11.6-inch laptop (see CNET review) running Google’s Chrome OS is priced at $379 at Best Buy, where it is beginning to show up in physical stores, as first reported by Liliputing. That’s $100 more than the Wi-Fi-only …

DisplaySearch has released a forecast covering new display tech in 2014, which includes speculation about screens that may arrive on the iPhone 6, iWatch, large iPad, and Android tablets. The researcher sees at least two iPhone 6 possibilities as upgrades from the iPhone 5S’ 4-inch 1,136×640-pixel resolution (see chart below). At the high end would be a 5.5-inch 1,920×1,080 display …

LAS VEGAS — The Chromebook has found a niche. CES made this clear. Toshiba announced its well-designed Chromebook at CES, and Dell unveiled its models a few weeks before the event. Chromebooks were also front and center at Intel’s large CES booth. And Lenovo told CNET that it plans a big Chromebook push this year. Hewlett-Packard is already a big …

As Chromebooks gain in popularity, device makers are gearing up for new entries in 2014. Both Asus and Toshiba will enter the market, according to a report on Friday from Digitimes. That report is backed by plenty of supporting evidence. The Toshiba Chromebook leaked when a review was posted prematurely. And the Asus Chromebook has been rumored for a while …

Dell’s Venue 8 runs Android on top of an Intel Atom processor. It starts at $180. Dell Intel has big Android ambitions for 2014. The chipmaker’s points of focus for the year ahead include 64-bit processing power and more tablets. While still overwhelmingly a purveyor of processors for Windows PCs, Intel knows Android is its ticket to a bigger share …

Chromebooks grabbed about one-fifth of sales in commercial laptop channels in a 12-month period, up from virtually nothing the year before, according to NPD Group. On the flip side, Windows device sales, with the exception of tablets, have been “tepid” this year. The sales of Google Chrome OS-based laptops accounted for 21 percent of all notebook sales through commercial channels …

My first impression of the Dell Venue 11 Pro is positive. It’s very different from the iPad Air but that’s OK. The Venue 11 has a gorgeous 10.8-inch — an unusual size — 1,920×1,080 IPS display, and the model I’m using is powered by a quad-core Intel Atom Z3770 “Bay Trail” processor with 2GB of memory. (See updated impressions of …

The new year could be the year that Google’s Chromebook platform gains real traction, according to research from Digitimes. That’s the upside view of a research note published by Digitimes Research on Friday. “Chromebook shipments may reach as high as eight million units in 2014, accounting for 5% of total notebook shipments,” Digitimes Research said. The note continued. “If Google …

Google’s Android ecosystem will be breathing down Apple’s neck in 2014, according to IDC, which offered predictions for 2014. Google Play/Android downloads and revenues “are making dramatic gains and the app ecosystem value gap will be significantly narrowed” with Apple in 2014, according to IDC. That was one of the predictions published Tuesday, among a bevy of predictions for 2014. …

Hewlett-Packard is banking on “convertible” tablets to power its consumer holiday sales, CEO Meg Whitman said Tuesday. “We’ve got a lot of convertibles in the market, so do our competitors, and we’re advertising behind those because we think that’s a really innovative form factor that’s the best of the tablet and the best of the PC,” she said in response …