Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple products could become a little lighter and a lot tougher, after the company signed an agreement with Liquidmetal Technologies to use the latter’s metal alloys in their products. As first noted by the blog Apple Insider, Liquidmetal Technologies filed a Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 5, noting that “substantially […]

VOIP vendor Skype filed for an IPO Aug. 9, but offered no indication of when potential shareholders would be able to purchase stock in the Internet-calling company. Skype’s preliminary prospectus estimates the initial offering’s value at up to $100 million, but the company declined to reveal a specific share price to the Associated Press. The […]

Apple could be lining up manufacturers for a Verizon iPhone, according to a TechCrunch report circulating online. That would dovetail neatly with other indicators that AT&T’s exclusive hold on the iPhone could break by early 2011. “Sources with knowledge of this entire situation have assured me that Apple has submitted orders for millions of units […]

AT&T could be preparing to lose its exclusive rights to the iPhone in the United States, according to the carrier’s latest 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. If the oblique statements in that filing prove accurate, it could validate analysts’ claims that the iPhone will appear on other carriers starting in early 2011. […]

Controversy over the iPhone 4-including issues involving its exterior antenna rim-led to the recent departure of Mark Papermaster, Apple’s senior vice president for mobile devices. At least, that was the initial assumption by many media outlets. But a new report suggests Papermaster’s tenure with Apple may have been more troubled. The Wall Street Journal, quoting […]

Microsoft enjoyed some positive news this week, at least on the legal front: the company announced Aug. 4 that it had settled its patent-infringement cases with Salesforce.com, heading off what promised to be a protracted legal battle. “Salesforce.com will receive broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio for its products and services as well as its […]

Research In Motion used the Aug. 3 launch of the BlackBerry Torch 9800 to position itself as more consumer-centric: during a high-profile presentation in New York City, executive after executive touted the device’s multimedia and social-networking capabilities-not to mention what the company hopes will be a mobile-applications storefront capable of holding its own against Apple’s […]

If you believe the week’s rumors, Apple is preparing to launch a camera-equipped iPod Touch-one that would conceivably allow users to video-chat with one another via FaceTime-when it carries out an expected iPod refresh this fall. “An iPhone parts supplier sent us these photos of what are claimed to be the front LCD and bezel […]

Amazon’s Kindle now features two word-puzzle games, bringing the e-reader’s features more in line with those of its erstwhile rival, Barnes & Noble’s Nook. The first game, “Every Word,” requires you find as many words as possible from six or seven scrambled onscreen letters. With the second, “Shuffled Row,” some 60 lettered tiles are used […]

It’s that time of year again: As September approaches, along with Apple’s expected refresh of its iPod line, the rumor mill has already begun to crank into high gear on the subject of the company’s next generation of portable devices. In 2009, rumors centered on an iPod equipped with a camera for stills and video; […]

Microsoft and Salesforce.com may have settled their very public disagreement over intellectual property, but the feud could be an indicator of things to come in the enterprise cloud space, where a number of vendors are engaged in ever-fiercer competition for business clients. “As you take a look at how the sundry vendors approach the cloud, […]

Apple has enjoyed increased enterprise adoption of the iPhone and iPad-but a new Forrester Research report makes it clear that, if companies are to accept the devices into their fold, certain security policies need to be implemented first. The Aug. 2 report authored by Forrester analyst Andrew Jaquith suggests that, while Apple has instituted more […]