Nicholas Kolakowski

Amazon.com released the Kindle DX, the next iteration in its line of electronic reading devices, on May 6 at a high-profile event in Manhattan, N.Y. Although the event lacked the celebrity presence that accompanied the rollout of the Kindle 2 in February-during which author Stephen King gave a reading-the Kindle DX rollout nonetheless attracted substantial […]

Apple circulated an e-mail to developers May 7 suggesting that all submissions to its App Store now need to be compatible with its upcoming iPhone OS 3.0. “Beginning today, all submissions to the App Store will be reviewed on the latest beta of iPhone OS 3.0,” read the e-mail. “If your app submission is not […]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt volunteered that his company will doubtlessly face deeper antitrust scrutiny in the short term, even as Google General Counsel Kent Walker confirmed that the search-engine giant was in talks with the Federal Trade Commission over Schmidt’s service on the boards of both Google and Apple. “What is changed is that we […]

As Google has grown larger and come under scrutiny for potential antitrust practices, the search engine giant has decided to launch something of a charm offensive, engaging both politicians and media types on talking points designed to portray the company as healthy for online competition. In advance of Google’s annual shareholder meeting on May 7, […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested that an acquisition of Yahoo would have been “valuable” and that he was glad the two companies “went down the road” last year, according to a Reuters report. Speaking to 1,200 students at Stanford University in a classroom-style speech, Ballmer also characterized the economy as decidedly in downturn mode, saying […]

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone reiterated in a May 6 television appearance that his popular micro-blogging site, which lets users post messages or “tweets” of 140 characters or less, is not for sale. Asked by television personality Barbara Walters as to whether Twitter was indeed open to an acquisition by Google, Microsoft or Apple, Stone said, […]

Google co-founder Sergey Brin posted his 2008 founder’s letter on the official Google blog on May 7, detailing the company’s beginnings and offering a partial road map for its future. In keeping with the search engine company’s recent drum-beating about attempts to make headway despite the recession, notably Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s repeated comments about […]

Google Android, the search engine company’s open-source operating system, will appear on smartphones launched in Canada starting June 2009. The smartphones, HTC Dream and HTC Magic, are being released in that country by Rogers Wireless, one of Canada’s largest carriers. The HTC Magic features a touch-screen, while the HTC Dream interface can be navigated via […]

When Amazon.com decided that the venue for the May 6 launching of its new Kindle e-reader device, the Kindle DX, would be the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University in Manhattan, N.Y., the company could not have chosen a more symbolic spot. That site was occupied in the 19th century by a […]

Dell is offering WiMax, a longer-range wireless broadband service for notebooks and mobile devices, on two of its consumer laptop models: the Dell Studio 17 laptop and the Studio XPS 16 notebook. Dell also suggested in a corporate blog that it was working closely with Clearwire to expand the range of WiMax service from its […]