Nicholas Kolakowski

Nokia sold more than 1 million Windows Phone units in the fourth quarter of 2011, surpassing some analyst expectations. That being said, the company’s quarterly results suggest it has a lot of ground to recover if it ultimately wants to challenge Google Android and Apple. Nokia’s net sales declined 21 percent from the year-ago quarter. […]

How much was Microsoft willing to pay Nokia to launch the latter’s Windows Phone line? The answer, according to Nokia’s most recent earnings report, was $250 million in the fourth quarter of 2011-and that’s only the beginning. “Over the life of the agreement, both the platform support payments and the minimum software royalty commitments [which […]

Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 will appear on both traditional PCs and tablets. However, as the company gears up to release the operating system’s beta in February, followed by the final version sometime in the second half of 2012, it’s increasingly clear that tablet functionality is a prime concern-a sea change from Windows 7, an OS […]

Apple apparently welcomes the iPad cannibalizing the market for both Windows PCs and Macs, according to comments made during the company’s Jan. 24 earnings call. “There is cannibalization clearly of the Mac by the iPad, but we continue to believe there is much more cannibalization of Windows PCs by the iPad,” Apple CEO Tim Cook […]

Apple’s upcoming iPhone 5 will feature a bigger screen and a different casing from the iPhone 4, suggests a new posting on the Apple-centric blog 9to5Mac. According to the Jan. 25 report’s “reliable source at Foxconn in China,” the various prototypes circulating around that production facility share some common features, including a 4-plus-inch display and […]

SAP enjoyed significant increases in software revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011, suggesting that the market’s appetite for enterprise IT products remains strong despite some turbulence in the overall economy. Total revenue for the quarter topped $5.8 billion, a year-over-year rise of 11 percent. Software and support revenue rose 16 percent and 13 percent […]

Nokia’s high-end Lumia 900 will launch March 18 on AT&T, according to a “trusted” source speaking to the Boy Genius Report. Moreover, it will cost $99 with a two-year contract. That’s not the first time a publication has floated that release date for Nokia’s next high-end Windows Phone. Over at his Supersite for Windows, blogger […]

Ultrabooks will prove to be more than a passing fad, according to a new report from analyst firm Juniper Research. Super-thin laptops supplemented with powerful hardware, ultrabooks are chiefly backed by Intel, which wants a more substantial piece of the mobility market. For manufacturers, the form factor represents the chance to capitalize on the same […]

Research In Motion appointed a new CEO Jan. 22, replacing longtime co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie with Thorsten Heins, the company’s chief operating officer for product and sales. Heins has quite a task in front of him. RIM’s market share is steadily eroding in the face of aggressive competition by Apple’s iOS and Google […]

Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones and 15.43 million iPads during its fiscal 2012 first quarter, which ended Dec. 31. That suggests a particularly strong holiday selling season for the company; the iPhone number, for example, was well above the 30.2 million units predicted by many analysts. Overall, quarterly revenue totaled $46.33 billion, with a net […]