Nicholas Kolakowski

This week, Microsoft wrestled with complaints from a subset of Windows 7 users about poor battery life for some laptops running the operating system. Some of those users reported experiencing battery life as short as 15 minutes after upgrading their laptops to Windows 7, while others received a “Consider replacing your battery” warning. A Feb. […]

The upcoming release of Apple’s iPad tablet PC may be linked to a spike in third-party developers building apps for the iPhone OS, according to mobile analytics company Flurry, even as Apple and Google continue to mirror each other with regard to user retention, session frequency and session lengths for their respective iPhone and Android […]

Microsoft will unveil its Windows Mobile 7 smartphone operating system during a Feb. 15 presentation at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. “At a wireless industry conference in Barcelona on Monday, the company plans to publicly show a new version of its cellphone operating system, […]

Top 10 iPhone Apps to Get to Know Your U.S. Presidents by Nicholas Kolakowski The White House The official White House app feeds blog postings, news, videos and photos from the executive mansion to your iPhone or iPod Touch. Theres also the ability to watch live events via streaming video. The cost is free. Presidents […]

Microsoft has integrated new features into its Bing Maps application as it continues to battle Google for U.S. search engine market share. The latest features continue the bulking-up of Bing Maps that has taken place over the previous few months and follow the road map for Bing that Microsoft laid out in January at the […]

Microsoft’s Windows 8, the next form of the company’s operating system, may take a radical turn in its user interface and features, at least according to an official blog post by a Microsoft employee that was quickly taken down. In a Jan. 31 blog posting on the Microsoft Developer Network, titled “What’s In Store for […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may be interested in purchasing BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, according to online reports, but substantial roadblocks may exist to such a deal. According to a Feb. 8 post on the All Things Digital blog, Ballmer has “expressed interest in buying RIM many times (while also dismissing any interest in Palm).” […]

Apple may soon sell television shows through iTunes for a dollar per standard-definition episode, according to Financial Times, which reported on Feb. 10 that the company had been successful in its talks with unnamed studios. The deal represents another of Apple’s attempts to corral content creators under its banner before the launch of the iPad […]

The upcoming Office for Mac 2011 will include many of the features present in Office 2010, according to a Feb. 11 statement from Microsoft, and will roll out to consumers and businesses at an undefined point later this year. As with Microsoft Office 2010, Office 2011 will allow Mac users to access their documents online […]

A virtual teardown of Apple’s iPad tablet PC by research firm iSuppli has found that the tech company can expect a sizable profit from the device, particularly its mid-range models. In theory, that gives Apple room to be “nimble” on pricing for the device, as one Credit Suisse analyst has suggested it may do if […]

Oracle announced Feb. 10 that it has agreed to acquire Convergin, which provides network integration software for the communications industry.In a statement, Oracle said it expects to integrate Convergin’s products into its existing software portfolio, allowing “customers with next-generation solutions to address network migration to an all-IP core, significantly reducing integration and hardware costs.” At […]

Adobe may have little to worry about from Google’s use of HTML5 in YouTube and Apple shunning Flash for the iPhone and iPad, according to a new analyst report from research firm Jefferies & Co. That report follows recent blogosphere buzzing over whether the lack of Flash support for Apple’s new tablet PC could prove […]