Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple CEO Steve Jobs and News Corp magnate Rupert Murdoch are planning on launching a tablet-only newspaper, according to online reports. Should such a development prove true, it could further alter the dynamics of a publishing world already in flux thanks to e-readers and other electronic media. Murdoch himself seemed to confirm many of the […]

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab has sold more than 600,000 units in a month, according to a new report. While that number lags behind the total iPads sold by Apple, it suggests the Galaxy Tab is positioned to become a notable rival in the tablet PC space. That sales report, from the Korea Herald, also suggested 30,000 […]

Barnes and Noble’s Nook Color Features Android, Facebook Integration by Nicholas Kolakowski Full Color The Nook Color offers a 7-inch display, with a wide 178-degree viewing angle and ability to switch between landscape and portrait views. Periodicals Barnes & Noble is leveraging the Nooks color to sell periodicals and other image-intensive texts. Ads Periodicals include […]

Netflix has launched a streaming-only subscription plan in the United States. The move, combined with recent streaming-media forays by the likes of Apple and Google, reinforces a paradigm shift that’s clearly underway in how people view television content. “We are now primarily a streaming-video company delivering a wide selection of TV shows and films over […]

Google has released Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, which allows users to save their Office documents in Google Docs. Offered as a Web-based alternative, the free software plug-in represents yet another Google foray into cloud productivity. The question is, how much of a threat does it pose to Microsoft, which is also trying to […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs wasted no time using the new iOS 4.2 update, available for download Nov. 22, to launch yet another broadside at his competitors in the mobile space. The update introduces features such as multitasking, folders and Game Center to the iPad. “Once again, the iPad with iOS 4.2 will define the target […]

Droid 2, Nook, Samsung Galaxy S Angle for Holiday Tech Dollars by Nicholas Kolakowski BlackBerry Torch 9800 The BlackBerry Torch 9800 is now offered in red and white, for those BlackBerry fans who just can’t stand black any longer. RIM hopes consumers and businesses both will gravitate to the slider devices. Droid 2 The Motorola […]

Last week’s Windows Phone 7 launch drew attention to Microsoft’s consumer side. But a company of Microsoft’s size necessarily has other areas of focus; and this week, it was the business-product end of Redmond’s operations that seemed to attract news attention. Microsoft formally launched Lync 2010, the rebranding of its Office Communications software suite, with […]

Apple’s next-generation iPad will add a front-facing camera and the ability to operate on both GSM- and CDMA-based networks, according to new reports circulating online. Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair wrote in a recent research note that the new iPad “is thinner than the existing model and is essentially made from one piece of metal […]

Facebook’s U.S. traffic rose 55 percent in the last year, with its number of visitors rising from 97.37 million to 151.13 million, according to analytics firm ComScore. Combined with Facebook’s revamped messaging platform, does the social network’s seemingly ever-increasing popularity mean it will become more attractive as a business tool? A number of corporations already […]

Amazon.com is offering its customers the ability to “gift” Kindle ebooks, yet another escalation in the online retailer’s efforts to stay atop the e-reader market. Despite its sales position, Kindle faces increased competition from not only Barnes & Nobles’ new Nook Color, but also the Apple iPad and other tablet PCs with e-reader applications. “We […]

Apple’s iPad will add a front-facing camera and the ability to operate on both GSM- and CDMA-based networks, according to new reports, which also suggest the next-generation tablet could ship by February 2011. The second-generation iPad “is expected to be launched in the first quarter of 2011,” reads a Nov. 19 report in the Taiwan-based […]