Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple may be “nimble” on its price point for the upcoming iPad tablet PC, according to Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope, if customers refuse to flock to the device during its initial rollout within the next two months. Shope met with Apple executives about the device sometime last week, and came away reporting-perhaps unsurprisingly-that the […]

Microsoft saw its share of the U.S. mobile operating-system market fall slightly between September and December 2009, the period during which the company launched its Windows Mobile 6.5 update in an attempt to slow or halt its market share declines. According to ComScore’s Feb. 8 report, Microsoft’s share of the U.S. mobile operating-system market declined […]

Microsoft’s official reaction to the Feb. 9 launch of Google Buzz, a service that lets Gmail’s 176 million users post status updates, swap Picasa photos, and share YouTube videos and other multimedia content? Been there, done that. “Busy people don’t want another social network,” Dharmesh Mehta, director of product management for Windows Live, said in […]

Apple released Aperture 3, the newest version of its photograph-editing software platform, on Feb. 9. New features include “Places,” which leverages GPS data to explore photos by their shooting location, non-destructive photo editing and the ability to choose from a variety of professional imaging effects. Apple’s online store went offline briefly on the morning on […]

Details of Microsoft’s smartphone-related announcement during the Mobile World Congress are being kept under wraps until the company’s press conference Feb. 15, but the rumor mill continues to churn unabated about the possibility that a “Zune Phone” or similar branded device will be unveiled on that date. Current rumors seem to suggest that Microsoft’s new […]

Microsoft’s engineers have been exploring the alleged battery-life issues associated with Windows 7 running on laptops, and report that the operating system is not causing those batteries to prematurely fail. In every case, claimed an official Microsoft blog posting on Feb. 8, Windows 7 correctly evaluated that the battery in question was on the threshold […]

Barnes & Noble announced Feb. 8 that its Nook e-reader will be available in most of its stores nationwide by midweek, possibly bringing an end to months of delays for the devices. The Nook was also listed as “In Stock” on Barnes & Noble’s Website. The retailer originally attributed the Nook’s holiday delays to what […]

Although Microsoft has traditionally earned the substantial bulk of its revenues from desktop-centric products such as its Windows operating system and Office, the company has also been constructing new cloud-based software as a way of creating a viable future. To that end, Microsoft announced on Feb. 1 that its Windows Azure platform, a competitor in […]

Apple announced on Feb. 3 that it will prevent third-party iPhone developers from leveraging the popular smartphone’s GPS to display mobile advertising. In a news item on its developer site, Apple announced that it has placed particular feature restrictions on its Core Location framework, which allows developers to build applications that geo-locate users and deliver […]

10 iPhone Apps to Get Your Super Bowl XLIV Game On 10 iPhone Apps to Get Your Super Bowl XLIV Game On by Nicholas Kolakowski ESPN RadioCost: $2.99 Lets users listen to live Internet broadcasts from the ESPN Website and ESPN radio on their iPhone or iPod Touch. CBS Sports MobileCost: Free Delivers updated news […]

T-Mobile USA may be sold or spun off from its parent company, Deutsche Telekom, according to reports.A Feb. 4 report in The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, said Deutsche Telekom was feeling out potential underwriters preparatory to divesting itself of the struggling unit, which ranks behind Verizon, AT&T and Sprint in the United States. […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs was in New York City this week to talk with executives from The New York Times about the upcoming iPad tablet PC, according to reports.New York magazine, quoting unnamed sources, says that Jobs and 50 higher-ups from the newspaper gathered at Pranna, a restaurant near Madison Square Park, on Feb. 3. […]