Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple on Dec. 7 pulled more than 1,000 applications from its App Store after reports of a developer posting fake positive reviews. That developer, Molinker, has denied the charges leveled against it by a blogger, and has said it has contacted Apple to work out the problem. Glyn Evans, owner of the blog iPhoneography, got […]

Tech startup Fusion Garage has announced the debut of the JooJoo, a 12.1-inch tablet PC designed to surf the Internet. The device will be released on Dec. 11 under a cloud, however, with Michael Arrington-founder of popular technology blog TechCrunch-threatening to sue Fusion Garage over what he says is the theft of his design for […]

Microsoft and Yahoo announced the finalization of their search-and-advertising deal late on Dec. 4, positioning Microsoft and its search engine, Bing, to challenge Google in a more robust way in 2010. The deal will essentially eliminate Yahoo’s presence in the U.S. search engine market. In a joint statement, both companies emphasized their strategy of creating […]

Tech startup Fusion Garage announced that it will debut the JooJoo, a tablet PC with a 12.1-inch touch screen, on Dec. 11 at a price point of $499. Whether or not the device, announced by Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan during a Web conference on Dec. 7, actually meets that launch date, it will almost […]

Apples 27-Inch iMac Boasts Intel Power with Aesthetic Appeal by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title The iMac’s 27-inch display features 2560 by 1440 resolution, or 78 percent more pixels than the 21.5-inch iMac. No Title The 27-inch iMac’s form factor puts a lot of space between the CPU and GPU in order to keep the internal […]

When Microsoft told consumers in July that its Windows 7 Family Pack would be sold in limited quantities, it evidently meant it: Over the weekend, holiday shoppers and analysts alike noted that the upgrade, which offered three Windows 7 Home Premium licenses for $149, had begun to disappear from online storefronts such as Amazon.com. A […]

Microsoft Raises Bing Bar Against Google by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title The Bing Bar, along the top of the screen, provides one-click access to News, Weather, Stocks, Video and other options. It is currently available as a download for Firefox and Internet Explorer. No Title Clicking on the Bing Bar’s News tab provides access to […]

Amazon.com is looking likely to have a good holiday 2009. Not only was the online retailer’s Website the most-visited retail site on Cyber Monday, with an estimated 15.53 percent of U.S. visits to the top 500 retail stores, but a study from uTest suggests it may also be the least buggy of the major shopping […]

When the Motorola Droid, powered by Google’s Android OS and serviced by Verizon, made its street debut on Nov. 5, the comparisons immediately started between the new smartphone and Apple’s iPhone. Fueling the argument was Verizon itself, which launched a series of head-to-head advertisements that emphasized certain Droid functionality-such as the ability to run multiple […]

For the low, low price of $1,200, Apple is now giving buyers of its Mac Pro desktop the option of upgrading to a 3.33GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon 3500 series processor. Those interested in massive amounts of drive space can also upgrade the Mac Pro’s four hard drive bays with 2TB Serial ATA drives, giving […]

Microsoft‘s week involved two words that start with “‘B”: Bing, its search engine, which received multiple improvements and added features, and Black, as in “Black Screen of Death.” Around the end of November, reports began circulating online that some Windows users were experiencing what quickly became known as the Black Screen of Death. As an […]

Microsoft‘s Bing search engine experienced about 30 minutes of downtime on the evening of Dec. 3, in what Redmond called a system error. During the outage, users were either unable to access the site or received incomplete search results. “The cause of the outage was a configuration change during some internal testing that had unfortunate […]