Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple has updated iOS 5 to patch an issue affecting mobile device battery life. That iOS 5.0.1 update fixes what Apple described as “bugs” affecting battery life, adds multitasking gestures to the first addition of the iPad, and tweaks some issues with Documents in the Cloud. It also “improves voice recognition for Australian users using […]

Following former Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ death in October, pundits and analysts stumbled over themselves to theorize about how his passing would affect the company’s bestselling product lines. They wondered whether, without Jobs’ unique combination of creativity and micromanaging impulses, Apple could continue to produce successful generations of the iPad, iPhone and Macs. Speaking at […]

Mozilla is maintaining its rapid-fire cadence of browser releases with the new Firefox 8.0, issued roughly six weeks after Firefox 7. This latest update for Windows, Mac and Linux offers precious few major tweaks on its recent predecessors, although it does include Twitter as a search option alongside Google, Bing and other sources. On top […]

Hewlett-Packard’s executives are mulling what to do with webOS, the mobile operating system it acquired along with Palm in 2010. HP previously announced it would terminate efforts to integrate webOS into a line of branded products. The question now is whether the company will sell webOS to another entity, keep the software and license it […]

Barnes & Noble wants federal regulators to investigate Microsoft’s Android licensing policy for antitrust issues, according to Bloomberg. The bookseller had locked horns with Microsoft over the latter’s insistence that it be paid royalties for the use of Android on the Nook e-reader device. For the past several quarters, Microsoft, insisting that Android violates certain […]

Apple’s iPhone 4S has been officially recommended by Consumer Reports. That could prove a minor relief for Apple, whose previous smartphone, the iPhone 4, did not receive a recommendation from the watchdog organization. Consumer Reports’ issues with the iPhone 4 centered on the smartphone’s infamous antenna issues. Soon after the device rolled out in summer […]

When Samsung pledged to collaborate with Microsoft over the development and marketing of Windows Phone, it probably didn’t think that partnership would extend to Microsoft snagging its executives. But that seems to be the case, with the blog Boy Genius Report posting Nov. 7 that Gavin Kim, formerly Samsung’s vice president of consumer and enterprise […]

Affordable Android The T-Mobile Springboard joins other low-priced tablets entering the market in time for the holiday season, most notably the Kindle Fire. Honeycomb The Springboard runs Android 3.2 Honeycomb without many of the design bells and whistles that other manufacturers have been fitting to graft onto their tablet interfaces. Resolution The 7-inch screen offers […]

Hewlett-Packard will host a Nov. 8 meeting to announce the fate of its webOS operating system, according to The Verge. As suggested by a Nov. 8 Reuters report, the sale of webOS to another company is on the table: “Several technology companies have expressed an interest in buying the division, which is seen as attractive […]

As expected, the era of the cheap tablet is now fully upon us. Later this month, Amazon will deliver the $199 Kindle Fire, just as archrival Barnes & Noble offers up its Nook Tablet for $249. Samsung is readying the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, which T-Mobile will start selling Nov. 16 for $249.99 with a […]

NEW YORK – During Barnes & Noble’s Nov. 7 unveiling of its new Nook Tablet, CEO William Lynch stood before dozens of assembled media and made a somewhat startling claim: The Nook Color, the bookseller’s previous full-color device, is the second-highest-selling tablet after Apple’s iPad. Samsung and some third-party analysts would probably beg to differ […]

Nook vs. Kindle Barnes & Noble hopes its revamped line of Nook devices will blunt the impact of Amazon’s own updated Kindle e-readers. Nook Tablet The Nook Tablet is the vanguard of Barnes & Noble’s Amazon-blunting efforts. The 7-inch tablet runs Android’s Gingerbread build and will, in addition to displaying static content like e-books, let […]