Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple launched a new education initiative Jan. 19 at a high-profile event at New York City’s Guggenheim Museum that focused on “reinventing textbooks” and using technology to make the classroom more engaging for students. “Education is deep in our DNA,” Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, told the assembled media, according to […]

Microsoft could seize second place in the smartphone operating-system market by 2015, largely on the strength of Nokia’s Windows Phone line, according to a new report by IHS. Nokia made something of a splash at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, largely on the strength of its upcoming Lumia 900 smartphone, which […]

Microsoft’s results for its second quarter 2012 offered little in the realm of the unexpected: Xbox 360 and Kinect hands-free controllers continued to sell at a steady clip, as did business software, while Windows revenue dipped on softening PC sales. All told, quarterly revenue topped $20.89 billion, a year-over-year increase of 5 percent, with net […]

iBooks 2 Apples iBooks 2 is designed to bring a new textbook experience to the iPad, which the company views as an evolution beyond traditional, paper-bound textbooks. Interactive These interactive textbooks will feature not only multimedia such as video and touchable graphics but also tools such as highlighting and search. Notes The software platform converts […]

Apple likely posted strong iPhone 4S and iPad sales in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a new analyst report. Combined with other projections, that suggests Apple is entering 2012 on a high note. “We believe CQ4 iPhone builds settled in at [37 million], which means shipments of [35 million] are possible,” Peter Misek, […]

The Web’s response to SOPA and PIPA is officially in full swing. Both the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECTIP (PIPA)-at hand in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, respectively-are intended to curb online piracy by allowing copyright holders to block access to domestic and foreign Websites allegedly distributing illegal content. However, critics […]

What price a Nokia Windows Phone? Days after Nokia’s Lumia 710 arrived on store shelves, big-box retailer Wal-Mart began offering the midrange smartphone for free with a two-year contract. Tech writers and pundits immediately commenced to chattering over the implications of such a move, including whether it meant that Nokia’s nascent Windows Phone efforts are […]

Google Google protested SOPA and PIPA by slapping a black bar over the “Google” logo on its search page, and accompanying it with a link reading, “Tell Congress: Please dont censor the web!” Wikipedia Wikipedia opted to respond to SOPA and PIPA with a daylong shutdown. Users still needing to access Wikipedia information can search […]

Apple’s Jan. 19 event in New York City will apparently center on tools for creating ebooks, according to the ever-popular unnamed sources speaking to Ars Technica. “The current state of software tools continues to frustrate authors and publishers alike, with several authors telling Ars that they wish Apple or some other vendor would make a […]

Wikipedia plans on undergoing a self-imposed blackout Jan. 18, in protest of proposed legislation that it says would harm a free and open Internet. The legislation in question includes the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) before the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. The bills are intended to […]

Microsoft’s Windows Phone came with a fairly strict set of hardware requirements for the devices, tied to a straightforward goal: Establish a consistent user experience across multiple manufacturers’ offerings. The company’s next big mobile effort, Windows 8 on tablets and convertible PCs, will apparently have its own set of minimum hardware requirements, according to a […]

Despite a host of challengers entering the marketplace throughout 2011, Apple’s iPad remained the top choice among consumers and businesses in the market for a tablet. However, 2012 could witness the beginnings of a seismic change in the tablet landscape: If everything proceeds according to rumored schedule, Microsoft will release Windows 8 on tablets in […]