Nicholas Kolakowski

Micron Technology chairman and CEO Steve Appleton apparently died in a plane crash at the Boise airport Feb. 3. He was 51 years old, and had served as CEO of the company for more than 20 years. According to the Associated Press, he was the only one in the fixed-wing plane, which an airport spokesperson […]

In keeping with its rapid release cadence, Mozilla has released Firefox 10.0 for Windows, Mac and Linux. While the latest browser version features relatively few cosmetic changes, there are some under-the-hood additions that could prove vital for developers trying to create next-generation Web experiences. In the desktop version of Firefox 10.0, Mozilla has hidden the […]

Windows Phone 8 will support multicore processors and native BitLocker encryption, and integrate in many ways with the upcoming Windows 8. Those are just a few of the features mentioned in a Pocketnow.com report Feb. 2, many of which were subsequently confirmed by Paul Thurrott in a posting on his Supersite for Windows. Pocketnow claimed […]

Samsung ratcheted up another victory in its legal battles with Apple over patent violations, when a German court refused to grant Apple a preliminary sales ban on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet and Galaxy Nexus smartphone. Apple can perhaps take consolation in the fact that, although the Munich Regional Court rejected its notion for […]

Microsoft has made the version 1.0 of its Kinect for Windows software development kit and runtime available for download. “Looking towards the future, we are planning on releasing updates to our SDK and runtime 2-3 times per year,” Craig Eisler, general manager of Kinect for Windows, wrote in a Jan. 31 posting on the Kinect […]

Microsoft wasted no time swiping at Google over its recent privacy controversy. Starting March 1, Google will fold 60 of its 70 existing product-privacy policies into one blanket policy. Users cannot opt out. Under the auspices of its new policy, the search-engine giant will also treat any user with a Google account who signs into […]

Research In Motion’s upcoming BlackBerry 10 device will be ultra-slim and somewhat narrow, with a wide touch screen and rounded edges. At least, that’s according to a leaked presentation slide posted on the BlackBerry-enthusiast blog CrackBerry, which didn’t name its source for the information. “We’re hearing that both TI OMAP5 and Qualcomm chipsets are being […]

Apple’s iPad 3 will feature a new A6 processor, according to a Feb. 1 posting on the Boy Genius Report blog. BGR’s information came from an unnamed source, who in turn provided screenshots of “output from an iPad 3 using a development and debug tool called iBoot.” Based on those screens, the iPad 3 will […]

A Dusseldorf court declined to overturn a ruling that bars Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet from sale in Germany. Apple and Samsung have been locked in a particularly vicious legal battle in that country, with both sides suing each other over supposed patent violations. Late in 2011, Apple’s legal counsel scored a temporary injunction from […]

Salesforce.com has launched Desk.com, a customer help-desk dashboard that integrates Facebook and Twitter feeds alongside more traditional corporate channels such as email. As with all Salesforce services, this newest one is cloud-based; subscriptions start at $49 per seat per month. The target audience is small to midsized businesses (SMBs) who heavily rely on Twitter and […]

Microsoft’s next version of Office has reached its technical preview stage. Codenamed Office 15, the platform is being distributed to a select group of testers; a public beta will reportedly arrive this summer. Office 15 is apparently an ambitious project. “For the first time ever, we will simultaneously update our cloud services, servers, and mobile […]

Research In Motion decided to split the roles of chair and CEO after an independent committee found that doing so would constitute an “appropriate solution for RIM shareholders.” The committee’s report, which RIM posted on its Website, suggested that the company follow the policy of other Canadian companies, which generally split the roles of independent […]