Nicholas Kolakowski

Midmarket Price Nokia and T-Mobile are pricing the Lumia 710 at $49 in the United States with a two-year contract, clearly aiming at a U.S. midmarket increasingly dominated by Google Android devices. Apps The Lumia 710 features access to Microsoft’s growing collection of mobile apps, in addition to Nokia-specific ones, such as Nokia Drive. Hubs […]

Microsoft and Novell have finished the closing-argument stage of their long-running court battle, one that saw Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates called to the stand in November. The case (Novell Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., 04-01045, U.S. District Court, District of Utah (Salt Lake City)), is now in the hands of the jury. Novell claims that Microsoft […]

Nokia’s big plan for its comeback in the U.S. smartphone market: unleash the flood of Windows Phones. Starting Jan. 11, Nokia and T-Mobile will offer the Lumia 710 to U.S. customers for $49 with a two-year contract. The midmarket device will feature a 1.4GHz processor, 5-megapixel camera, and a choice of either black or white […]

Apple could be extending its high-resolution Retina Display to MacBook Pros, according to a new report. “Apple is likely to launch its new MacBook Pro lineup with a display resolution of 2880 by 1800 in the second quarter of 2012,” read the Dec. 14 piece in the Taiwanese publication DigiTimes, which quoted unnamed sources in […]

Although Microsoft dearly wants its Windows Phone platform to eat away at the audience for the iPhone, the company realizes Apple’s hold over the smartphone market. Accordingly, it has released new mobile apps for its SkyDrive cloud storage on Windows Phone and the iPhone. “In addition to their OneNote notebooks, iPhone customers can now access […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has replaced Andy Lees, president of the company’s Windows Phone division, with Vice President Terry Myerson. However, the latter will not inherit the actual “president” title. At the same time, Ballmer shifted Lees to another role within Microsoft: expanding on the interoperability between Microsoft’s various platforms, including Windows Phone and Windows […]

Apple could have its eye on acquiring another company, a relatively rare event for the technology giant despite its enormous cash reserves. The possible target in question is Anobit, an Israeli firm specializing in flash storage. The rumor originated at TechCrunch, which put the possible asking price at between $400 million and $500 million. An […]

Amazon is prepping a software update for its Kindle Fire tablet within the next two weeks, according to a report in The New York Times. “In less than two weeks, we’re rolling out an over-the-air update to Kindle Fire,” Drew Herdener, an Amazon spokesperson, told the newspaper Dec. 11. That update is an apparent response […]

Apple’s next iPad will launch in March or April, according to a new report in the Taiwanese publication DigiTimes. That Dec. 12 report cited unnamed “sources in the supply chain” for the information, adding: “The next generation iPads are expected to be available in the next 3-4 months as makers in the supply chain have […]

Hewlett-Packard may have dumped the TouchPad in history’s dustbin of new tech, but the company apparently hasn’t abandoned the idea of producing tablets loaded with the webOS operating system. That news comes from HP CEO Meg Whitman, who, when asked by The Verge whether HP planned to manufacture more hardware running webOS, replied, “The answer […]

AT&T and the Justice Department have mutually agreed to stay an upcoming trial over the former’s proposed T-Mobile USA acquisition. “AT&T and Deutsche Telekom advised Judge [Ellen] Huvelle this morning that they wish to stay any further Court proceedings until Jan. 18, 2012, to allow the two companies time to evaluate all options,” read a […]

Microsoft is releasing an iOS version of its OneNote collaboration and note-taking software, customized for the iPad. Despite their ostensible rivalry in areas as diverse as mobile devices and operating systems, Microsoft and Apple nonetheless continue a symbiotic relationship centered on the former’s software for the Mac. OneNote 1.3 for iOS, with its support for […]