Nicholas Kolakowski

Research In Motion will dump its BlackBerry OS licensing plans and double down on the upcoming BlackBerry 10€™s ability to battle toe-to-toe against Apple€™s iOS and Google Android, according to a new analyst report. €œOur checks indicate RIM is likely to move away from a proposal to the Board that RIM license BB10 to Samsung […]

Microsoft€™s week saw the release of its Kinect for Windows SDK (software development kit) and Runtime, a very public broadside at Google over the latter€™s privacy policy, the next version of Office entering technical preview, and the unexpected revelation of some crucial Windows Phone 8 details. Not exactly the slowest, in other words. Code-named Office […]

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 […]