Nicholas Kolakowski

Google Android will be loaded onto an HTC-produced smartphone for the Chinese market in June, according to a report published in The Wall Street Journal on May 26. The Journal report added that HTC will load the Android mobile operating system onto a version of its Magic phone and that the device will likely retail […]

Rampant rumors have Apple releasing a Mac Tablet computer with multitouch capability within the next year. Such a release has the potential to challenge many competing companies in both the PC and mobile device markets. If the rumors of the tablet’s capabilities prove true, there is also potential for it to challenge Amazon.com‘s increasing lucrative […]

On May 19, the Air Force Space Command jumped on the Twitter bandwagon for a press conference designed to soothe the media outcry over the potential failure of the GPS system, which allows devices to determine location with pinpoint accuracy. Much of the uproar came as a result of a May 7 GAO (Government Accountability […]

Yahoo has integrated a voice-search capability into its Yahoo Mobile for iPhone App, allowing users to search by speech for everything from restaurant listings to movie times. The voice search feature can be activated by pressing the “Press + Speak” bar on the App’s screen. A red bar will appear with the words, “Listening…Tap when […]

Google will roll out new features to Google Suggest “soon,” and these new features will speed up the time it takes the online community to search, according to the company. In its previous iteration, Google Suggest only displayed its suggestions based on the original search input. The company has expanded that original mission to encompass […]

Google announced in a May 21 corporate blog posting that tinkering with its Web browser, Chrome, had achieved some success: a new stable version of the program runs JavaScript-heavy Web pages some 30 percent faster than the previous stable iteration. As part of the announcement, Google suggested that it was working hard to incorporate features […]

Limelight Networks announced the acquisition of Kiptronic, which designs applications for device-optimized content delivery and monetization, on May 21. Kiptronic’s products allow content to be tailored to a particular Internet-connected or mobile device without needing to change aspects of the platform that content is built upon. The company’s Web-based tools can be used by advertisers […]

Google has entered into a revised agreement with the University of Michigan over its rapidly expanding digital library, allowing the school to protest any pricing that the search-engine giant might impose on institutional subscriptions. The new agreement signed with the University of Michigan, which can be found here, seems tailor-made to refute the storm of […]

Nokia continues to roll out applications for its Ovi Store, including a new one called Ovi Maps that allows for two-dimensional and three-dimensional viewing of landmarks, night mode, language functionality, and satellite and terrain views. As with applications from the Apple App Store or the Blackberry App World, the Ovi Store allows programs to be […]

The Google PowerMeter gadget, which draws information from a home “smart meter” to show customers their energy consumption, is being tested by an expanding number of utility companies, according to Google, which announced the partnerships in a May 19 corporate blog posting. With PowerMeter installed, customers can monitor their consumption on their personal iGoogle homepage. […]

On May 20, two days after demanding an apology from South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster for the latter’s threats of prosecution, Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster announced in corporate blog posting that the popular community-posting site would be filing a lawsuit against McMaster in South Carolina federal court. Specifically, Craigslist is seeking declaratory relief and […]

Hours after Craigslist announced it would file a lawsuit against South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster in that state’s federal court, McMaster issued a statement that appears to be a retreat. The Craigslist lawsuit, according to a corporate blog post by Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster, asked for declaratory relief and a restraining order “with respect […]