Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple may have tried to close the case on its iPhone 4 antenna issues, but Consumer Reports seems to have other ideas. Within days of the iPhone 4’s blockbuster launch this summer, some owners began complaining about a dampened signal whenever their bare skin touched the smartphone’s exterior antenna rim. On the strength of those […]

Research In Motion and Verizon have unveiled the new BlackBerry Curve 3G, 9300 model. Costing $30 with a two-year contract through the carrier, the device seems intended as a low-end complement to RIM’s other new smartphone, the Torch 9800, which retails for $199 via exclusive carrier AT&T. Unlike the Torch 9800, which runs RIM’s new […]

Verizon, Sprint and AT&T will all offer Samsung’s upcoming tablet PC in the United States, according to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal. If that rumor proves true, it could offer the Samsung Galaxy Tab a potentially sizable advantage in its battle against the Apple iPad, which offers 3G connectivity via AT&T. The […]

Microsoft found itself a controversy magnet over the weekend, after The New York Times published a Sept. 11 story about the Russian government’s raiding of internal advocacy groups “under the pretext of searching for pirated Microsoft software.” Russian legal counsel retained by Microsoft to combat software piracy, the article suggested, had supported Russian law enforcement […]

Even as its rivals prepare their own tablet PCs for the holiday shopping season, Apple seems determined to increase the reach of its iPad into more markets: Not only will the WiFi-only version of the device go on sale in China by the end of the week, but it might also hit Target stores sometime […]

Microsoft has given the next generation of its Office Communications software suite a streamlined, marketing-friendly name: Lync. Meant as a combination of “link” and “sync,” Lync 2010 and Lync Server 2010 will offer users a unified end-user platform for enterprise telephony, instant messaging, video and audio conferencing, and application and desktop sharing. The release candidates […]

Apple has published its new App Store Review Guidelines. The question is whether that’ll curb the arguments that periodically erupt over the suitability of certain App Store apps. The document, released Sept. 9 and almost instantly published on tech blogs such as Gizmodo, details the requirements for developers who want to create the next Plants […]

Microsoft ended its post-Labor Day week with something of a major personnel shakeup: Stephen Elop, president of the company’s Business Division, stepped down to become CEO at Nokia. “I am writing to let you know that Stephen Elop has been offered and has accepted the job as CEO of Nokia and will be leaving Microsoft, […]

Microsoft seemed magnanimous in its public response to Google Instant, which offers real-time results as users type queries into the search bar. The service, which launched Sept. 7, broadens the contrast between Google and Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. “It’s great to see continued innovation in search, in particular the level of energy in this space […]

Apple is closing the case on the iPhone 4’s antenna-rim issues, which dominated much of the conversation about the company and its signature smartphone throughout the summer. “We now know that the iPhone 4 antenna attenuation issue is even smaller than we originally thought,” reads a note on Apple’s corporate Website. “A small percentage of […]

Stephen Elop, Microsoft Business Division president, is stepping down to take the CEO reins at Nokia. According to a note on the phone maker’s Website, Elop will assume his new position Sept. 21. His resignation from Microsoft, where he spearheaded the release of Office 2010, is effective immediately. Nokia’s current president and CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, […]

Samsung, Dell, Microsoft, HP Plan Their Apple iPad Competition by Nicholas Kolakowski Samsung Galaxy Tab The Samsung Galaxy Tab, one of the first Apple iPad competitors onthe market, features a TFT-LCD 7-inch screen and a Cortex A8 1GHzprocessor, and runs Google Android 2.2. It also makes phone calls. Samsung Galaxy Tab While the Samsung Galaxy […]