Nicholas Kolakowski

Research In Motion€™s upcoming BlackBerry 10 will feature home-screen €œwidgets€ reminiscent of Microsoft Windows Phone€™s Live Tiles, according to a Feb. 13 posting by the CrackBerry blog. The top image from that posting, which drew its information from a document prepared by €œone of RIM€™s external ad agency partners,€ featured those widgets in action: a […]

Apple clearly isn€™t letting go of this whole Samsung-infringed-our-patents thing. Although the two companies are already locked in courtroom battles around the world, Apple has decided to open yet another front against its rival. In this case, Apple is suing Samsung in California over the latter€™s Galaxy Nexus, claiming the smartphone violates four patents. The […]

Just how much of a risk is Microsoft taking with Windows 8? The answer: a pretty big one. If Windows 8 indeed arrives at the tail end of 2012, it will be exactly three years since the release of Windows 7. As Microsoft executives like to trumpet on the quarterly earnings calls, Windows 7 has […]

Mozilla intends to develop a version of Firefox for Windows 8. That should come as no surprise to anyone, considering how Windows 8 will soon appear on a sizable number of traditional PCs and tablets. However, Mozilla€™s approach to porting Firefox onto the upcoming operating system neatly summarizes the potential issues facing other companies that […]

Microsoft€™s week was pretty much all Windows 8, all the time. In midweek, Microsoft sent media an invitation to a €œWindows 8 Consumer Preview€-themed event at this year€™s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The meeting is scheduled to take place at 3 p.m. Feb. 29 at the Hotel Miramar, and it€™s widely expected that the […]

The contents of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs€™ FBI file is out in public view, and reveals absolutely nothing startling to those who read Walter Isaacson€™s recent biography. In 1991, the FBI conducted a background check on Jobs at the request of the White House, which was considering him for a political appointment. The final report […]

Apple€™s iPad franchise might dominate the tablet market, but it nonetheless faces some significant threats in 2012. Chief among them: Windows 8 on tablets, which could arrive sometime late in the year. Microsoft and its hardware partners will surely devote considerable marketing muscle to the upcoming operating system, creating the sort of united front that […]

Amid the flurry of details from Microsoft about its upcoming Windows on ARM (for which it uses the acronym €œWOA€), at least two of them should give rival tablet makers a little pause. First, Windows on ARM is being designed to offer users a lightweight and quick experience, more reminiscent of an iPad than a […]

Oracle has acquired Taleo Corp., a cloud-based talent-management provider, for $1.9 billion. According to a Feb. 9 statement, Oracle intends to use Taleo€™s assets to €œcreate a comprehensive cloud offering for organizations to manage their human resource operations and employee careers.€ In addition to streamlining the on-boarding of new hires and reducing costs associated with […]

Apple will unveil the iPad 3 at a high-profile March event in San Francisco, reported AllThingsD. €œNo word yet on a street date for the iPad 3 (assuming that€™s what it€™s called),€ noted the Feb. 9 report, which relied on the ever-popular unnamed sources. Those sources apparently confirmed that the next-generation tablet will boast a […]