Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft’s week included a new partnership agreement with Hewlett-Packard and the unveiling of the long-anticipated app store for the upcoming Windows 8. Microsoft and HP plan on jointly offering private and public cloud solutions for businesses, under the terms of a newly announced four-year initiative. The solutions in question involve separate verticals: “Private Cloud,” combining […]

T-Mobile and Nokia could launch the latter’s Lumia 710, loaded with Microsoft’s revamped Windows Phone software, at a New York City event scheduled for Dec. 14. The blog WPCentral reported Dec. 7 that T-Mobile had filed the manual and associated materials for the Nokia 710 with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). That revelation coincided with […]

Open Air In contrast to other Apple stores, which are necessarily closed to the outside world, the bulk of the Grand Central location is in the open air of the train stations Main Concourse. Mob On its opening day, the Grand Central Apple store was instantly thronged by customers-at least some of whom had been […]

Hewlett-Packard has finally come to a decision about the fate of webOS, months after its efforts to load the software platform onto tablets and smartphones ended in anemic sales and failure. “HP today announced it will contribute the webOS software to the open-source community,” read a Dec. 9 HP statement. “HP plans to continue to […]

Apple’s new store overlooking Grand Central Station’s Main Concourse is the company’s fifth retail outlet in Manhattan. Located on the wide terrace overlooking the iconic train station’s Main Concourse, and extending into a series of side rooms and balconies, it will surely become one of the most-visited out of Apple’s 300-plus retail stores around the […]

Is Bill Gates about to pull a Steve Jobs? That seems to be the inference of a new Fortune magazine piece, quoting “one prominent chief executive” who’d “heard from someone close to Gates” that the Microsoft co-founder is “considering” a return to the helm of his own company. Certainly, that event would boost Microsoft’s stock […]

T-Mobile and Nokia will debut the Lumia 710 next week, if a new report about a Federal Communications Commission filing proves correct. The blog WPCentral reported Dec. 7 that T-Mobile has filed the manual and associated materials for the Nokia 710 with the FCC. T-Mobile and Nokia have tried to maintain a veil of secrecy […]

Research In Motion decided to change the name of its next-generation mobile operating system from “BBX” to “BlackBerry 10.” That will allow RIM to dodge some thorny trademark issues. But when it comes to the longer-term success of the BlackBerry franchise, much will depend on how RIM decides to roll out the much-touted “superphones” loaded […]

Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft will jointly offer private and public cloud solutions for organizations under a newly announced four-year initiative. Those solutions will break down into three separate verticals: “Private Cloud,” involving a combination of HP Enterprise Cloud Services and Microsoft cloud products-including Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 and Lync Server 2010-delivered via HP […]

Microsoft is gearing up to release the Windows 8 beta in February 2012, which will likely result in a final release near the end of that year. According to research firm IDC, however, the operating system might not prove a blockbuster across both tablets and traditional PCs. “Windows 8 will launch with split success,” IDC […]

With its newly unveiled Windows Store, Microsoft is aiming for a market long dominated by Apple, and coveted by other rivals such as Google. The long-anticipated online storefront, integrated into Windows 8, will give consumers and business users access to a wide variety of applications and games. For third-party developers, the chance to port their […]

Nokia and T-Mobile could announce a Windows Phone device for the U.S. market next week, if an event invitation sent to media is any indication. That invite for the Dec. 14 event in New York City suggests “something exciting in the works,” and is otherwise bereft of detail. Nonetheless, the combination of carrier and manufacturer […]