Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011, the company’s ERP solution for small and midsize businesses will be available in the United States and other territories in the second quarter of 2011. Microsoft is also planning a Spanish version to be released at an undisclosed later date. Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011’s dashboards and tools provide insight into projects, […]

Microsoft may have filed an intellectual-property lawsuit against Motorola, alleging the manufacturer’s Google Android smartphones violate nine of its patents, but the two companies seem determined not to burn their bridges with each other. “I am open to finding ways to work with Microsoft,” Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha reportedly told The Wall Street Journal Oct. […]

Apple plans to manufacture an iPhone capable of running on Verizon’s CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) network, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. A late-2010 production start would pave the road for Verizon to offer the iPhone in early 2011. The Oct. 6 Journal report quotes unnamed people “briefed by Apple.” […]

Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Torch 9800 is receiving a software update designed to speed up the smartphone’s browser, application-launching, e-mail and messaging, and unlocking functions. In addition, the update will reportedly improve the device’s audio quality and ability to render both media-gallery thumbnails and transitions on the home screen. The update is scheduled to push […]

Intel is apparently working on a tool that will allow developers to transfer iPhone applications to mobile devices that use Intel processors, potentially expanding the amount of software that relies on Intel architecture. “We’ll get [applications on] AppUp, then MeeGo and I imagine Windows,” Doug Fisher, Intel’s vice president of Software and Services, told PC […]

The second-generation Apple TV costs $63.95 once materials and manufacturing are factored in, according to a new teardown study by research firm iSuppli. The Apple TV’s actual BOM (bill of materials) comes to $61.98. Samsung-produced components, including the device’s A4 applications processor and DDR (double data rate) SDRAM, made up 26.7 percent of that cost, […]

Windows Phone 7 Will Lack Flash, Multitasking, CDMA at Launch by Nicholas Kolakowski Windows Phone 7s GSM Support Windows Phone 7 will appear first on GSM-based cellular networks such as AT&T’s, moving later to CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) carriers such as Verizon in the first half of 2011. No Tethering Microsoft executives confirmed in […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is predicting that his company will have an iPad competitor on the market by the end of 2010. “You’ll see new slates with Windows on them. You’ll see them this Christmas,” Ballmer told an audience Oct. 5 at the London School of Economics, according to Reuters. “Certainly we have done work […]

Sales of Apple iPads are outpacing sales of both iPhones and DVD players, according to an analyst note, and tablet computers are likely to become the country’s fourth-largest consumer electronics category, after televisions, smartphones and notebooks. That raises the question of whether competing manufacturers’ upcoming tablet offerings will be able to make a dent in […]

Samsung and Citrix are instituting a partnership to support Citrix Receiver on the former’s Galaxy S smartphones and Galaxy Tab tablet PCs, potentially opening those devices to increased use by the enterprise. Citrix Receiver offers access to virtual desktops and business apps, including resource-hungry database programs. Since the apps themselves are ported from a corporate […]

Apple faces a $625.5 million judgment unless it can win a legal argument against Mirror Worlds, which sued the company in 2008 for alleged patent infringement. Mirror Worlds won its verdict against Apple Oct. 1. According to Bloomberg, Apple’s emergency motion accuses Mirror Worlds of “triple dipping” if it wins $208.5 million for each of […]

Microsoft will launch Windows Phone 7 at a high-profile event in New York City Oct. 11. An invite sent to media confirms AT&T’s involvement as a premier carrier for the upcoming smartphone platform; a separate Microsoft Webpage suggests that representatives from T-Mobile will also be present. The launch event will kick off with a morning […]