Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft€™s March 2012 Patch Tuesday might be light on actual bulletins€”there are six€”but security researchers are nonetheless advising companies to fix the “critical” one posthaste. That critical bulletin, MS12-020 (Windows) addresses an issue in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). While Microsoft insisted in a March 13 posting on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog that €œwe […]

Apple and Motorola Mobility discussed a patent licensing agreement in late 2011, according to Bloomberg. The news outlet drew its information from a document issued by the European Commission, the European Union€™s antitrust body. €œFrom the information available to the Commission, this option envisaged a cross-license possibly to the benefit of all Android OEMs but […]

iPhoto The updated version of Apple’s iPhoto app lets users edit an image with their finger, tap to apply effects and organize with a few quick swipes. Pages Apple’s Pages document-creation app is optimized for touch, and allows users to integrate images and graphics with their text. Keynote Those who use Apple’s presentation software could […]

Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo largely retained their respective shares of the U.S. search market in February, according to comScore. The research firm€™s estimates pegged Google€™s share as blipping upward from 66.2 percent in January to 66.4 percent in February. Microsoft also held relatively steady during the same period, rising only from 15.2 percent to 15.3 […]

Apple could sell as many as 1 million units of the new iPad on March 16, the first day of its release, according to a new analyst report. €œWe expect Apple to sell more than [1 million] iPads on 3/16, the day the new iPad hits retail stores,€ Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, […]

Apple€™s next iPhone will support 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) connectivity, according to a new report by DigiTimes. €œA new version of iPhone to be launched in the second half of 2012 is very likely to support LTE as well,€ suggested the publication€™s March 12 article, which cited unnamed €œsmartphone makers€ based in Taiwan. While the […]

Nokia plans on launching a Windows 8 tablet sometime in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to unnamed sources speaking to DigiTimes. The March 12 article suggested that Nokia would outsource the actual tablet production to Compal Electronics, and that the first shipment would total 200,000 units. Sources among €œupstream component suppliers€ predicted that €œNokia€™s […]

While it won€™t necessarily attract the same level of consumer interest as the upcoming Windows 8, Microsoft€™s week featured an announcement of particular importance to a wide subset of IT pros: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 has been released to manufacturing. Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is designed to carve up big data for business-enhancing insights. In […]

The latest version of Apple€™s iPad offers features designed to make it stand out from the competition, including a high-resolution €œRetina Display€ and a rear camera capable of shooting 1080p video. It also supports 4G LTE. Following Apple€™s March 7 unveiling, outside analysts appeared roundly upbeat about the tablet€™s marketplace prospects. €œWe believe Apple will […]

Media tablets will become the world€™s fourth-largest market for semiconductors, according to new data from research firm IHS. That marks a meteoric rise for tablets, which ranked as the thirty-fifth largest semiconductor market in 2010. IHS, which released its new report March 9, expects tablet-semiconductor sales to reach $18.2 billion in 2014. €œThe speed of […]

President Obama has appointed Todd Park as the new U.S. Chief Technology Officer. Previous to the appointment, Park acted as CTO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he apparently headlined the creation of HealthCare.gov. According to a March 9 posting on The White House Blog, Park will work closely with Tom […]

Dell apparently has its eye on crafting a business-centric Windows 8 tablet. “Having a secure Windows tablet that works with all the Windows applications€”we’re hearing a lot of demand for that, and we think that will be quite attractive,” Michael Dell, CEO of his eponymous company, said on the Bloomberg West television show. That’s unsurprising, […]