Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple is talking with movie studios about storing films in the cloud and streaming them to iOS devices, according to a handful of new reports. According to the Los Angeles Times, the plan, which will take effect either later this year or early 2012, will let users purchase streaming movies via the iTunes Store. The […]

Research In Motion executives claim that BlackBerry services are fully restored after a global outage. RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis told media and analysts during an Oct. 13 conference call that the services had been restored early this morning, some four days after the first interruptions hit customers in Europe and various countries around the globe. […]

Quanta Computer has agreed to pay Microsoft a license for its devices running Google Android or Chrome. By doing so, it becomes the latest in a string of companies that have submitted to a Microsoft licensing program rather than fight a patent-infringement suit in court. “We are pleased to have reached this agreement with Quanta, […]

North American users of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry service are apparently experiencing outages. Those reports come a day after BlackBerry users in parts of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina all experienced what RIM called “messaging and browsing delays.” The company blamed those on a “core switch failure” within its infrastructure. […]

Microsoft really wants to justify that Windows 8 Start screen. Like its choice to include the “ribbon” user interface in the Windows 8 version of Windows Explorer, Microsoft’s decision to offer a Windows 8 Start screen composed of active tiles is proving somewhat controversial for a subset of Windows watchers. “We know major changes like […]

RIM’s current spate of BlackBerry service outages, should they persist, have the potential to weaken the company’s standing in the eyes of both business and consumer users. If that happens, the door opens for Microsoft’s Windows Phone to challenge RIM as the smartphone space’s third major ecosystem. At the moment, RIM appears safe from a […]

Microsoft’s plans for tackling big data within the enterprise include an Apache Hadoop-based distribution for Windows Server and Windows Azure. Apache Hadoop is a scalable solution for companies looking to crunch massive amounts of data, sorting through it to find the tendencies and patterns necessary to make better business decisions. Organizations already using the open-source […]

Apple’s iPhone 4S could rely on iPhone upgraders to drive its overall sales numbers, according to a new analyst report. “We estimate 18.8 [million] users of the iPhone 3GS are likely to upgrade to the iPhone 4S,” Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, wrote in an Oct. 11 research note. “Given our survey work […]

Apple’s iPhone 4S may have earned 1 million preorders in its first 24 hours, but at least one person doesn’t seem onboard with the new smartphone’s features: Microsoft’s Windows Phone division President Andy Lees. “From a pure hardware perspective, I was surprised they’re not giving the consumer more choice,” he told The Seattle Times Oct. […]

Hewlett-Packard plans on revealing its future webOS strategy in an all-hands employee meeting Oct. 12, according to Apple Insider. The blog cited unnamed “people familiar with the company’s plans” as its source. Newly minted HP CEO Meg Whitman is reportedly planning to decide this month on whether to divest the company of its PC business. […]

Research In Motion might end up having a very bad week. Reports from around the world indicate the company’s BlackBerry service is experiencing widespread interruptions. “Some users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, India, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina are experiencing messaging and browsing delays,” RIM said in a statement to The Wall Street Journal […]

Wireless Chargers If trends among Japanese tech companies are a harbinger of things to come, wire-free inductive chargers will become more of a presence in the United States. Panasonic, Maxwell and other companies all had such chargers on display at CEATEC. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Although many of the smartphones on display at CEATEC and […]