Nicholas Kolakowski

Now that Nokia’s unveiled its first midmarket Windows Phone for the U.S. market, the story is shifting to the Finnish phone maker’s inevitable follow-up. Chris Weber, president of Nokia’s U.S. division, told Bloomberg in December that his company will have a “very large presence” at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), slated to begin next week. […]

Microsoft and its partners will pump some $200 million into marketing Windows Phone to U.S. customers in 2012, according to Paul Thurrott’s Supersite for Windows. “According to internal Microsoft documentation I’ve viewed, the total cost of this marketing tsunami is in the neighborhood of $200 million,” he wrote in a Jan. 4 posting. “And, again, […]

Research In Motion could dismiss Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie as co-chairmen of their company’s board, according to reports circulating widely online. Barbara Stymiest is the figure being cited by Canadian publication the National Post as RIM’s potential next chairperson. The newspaper, which attributed that information to unnamed sources, described her as “an independent director […]

Internet Explorer 6 is very nearly dead in the United States. According to research firm Net Applications, use of IE6 in this country has dropped to beneath 1 percent. This is good news to Microsoft, which has been anything but private about its all-consuming desire to have users switch from the 10-year-old browser to a […]

Hewlett-Packard is circulating a teaser video for its “Spectre” ultrabook, which could appear at this month’s Consumer Electronics Show. The 30-second video, reproduced on Websites such as The Verge, devotes most of its length to abstract imagery, although it ends with a brief shot of what is clearly a laptop, opening to emit a blast […]

Apple is planning a New York City event for later in January centered on media and publishing, according to reports. The initial report came Jan. 2 from AllThingsD, which suggested that the event will have nothing to do with either the iPad 3 or long-rumored Apple TV. Instead, it will apparently focus on either advertising […]

Research In Motion has slashed the prices for its PlayBook tablet, offering all three models for $299 through the beginning of February. For those purchasing direct from RIM, that represents a discount of $400 for the 64GB version, $300 for the 32GB and $200 for the 16GB. It comes in the wake of recent price […]

The blame for the demise of Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad tablet can be placed with several parties, according to an article in The New York Times Jan. 1. The article assigns blame to several parties for the demise of Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad tablet. After that product crashed and burned in the marketplace, HP abandoned its plans to use […]

The week between Christmas and New Year’s, normally slow, was somewhat busy for Microsoft on the security front. In the final days of 2011, Microsoft released a security update to patch an issue associated with Security Advisory 2659883. The vulnerability affects all versions of Microsoft’s .NET Framework, and could allow a denial-of-service attack on servers […]

The rumor mill for Apple’s iPad 3 seems to be gearing up, with a new DigiTimes report that the company will adopt IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) flat panels for the next-generation tablet. “Starting with the new iPads, Apple will utilize IGZO panels from Sharp in order to upgrade the display resolution of the new […]

Thrive The new Toshiba Thrives 7-inch LED screen offers the same level of touch-responsiveness users have come to expect from higher-end Android tablets on the market. Android 3.2 The 7-inch Thrive runs Android 3.2 (Honeycomb), with none of the aesthetic tweaks or twists found in tablets such as Samsungs Galaxy Tab (which features that companys […]

Verizon Wireless has issued an explanation for the service outages that affected users across the United States earlier this week. “Being a pioneer comes with growing pains,” read a Dec. 29 statement issued by the carrier. “The recent issues that affected our customers’ 4G LTE service were unforeseen despite careful, diligent planning, deployment and ongoing […]