Nicholas Kolakowski

Research In Motion reported revenues of $4.2 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2012, a 15 percent decline from the $4.9 billion it earned during the previous quarter. The company shipped some 10.6 million BlackBerry smartphones and around 200,000 BlackBerry-branded PlayBook tablets during that period. RIM’s aging BlackBerry portfolio continued to drag on the […]

Samsung Galaxy S II Samsungs Galaxy S II aims to not only raise the bar for Google Android devices, but offer significant competition for Apples iPhone franchise. The smartphone includes Android 2.3 “skinned” with the manufacturers TouchWiz interface, along with a 4.3-inch screen. High Specs The Galaxy S II also features 16GB of onboard memory […]

Microsoft will make Internet Explorer 10 available as a “Metro”-style application and a desktop application for its upcoming Windows 8. The desktop version will fully support plug-ins and extensions, according to a new post on the official Building Windows 8 blog. However, the Metro-style browser will be “plug-in-free.” The reasoning behind this decision seems fairly […]

Could Windows 8 prove the long-elusive iPad killer, at least where business buyers are concerned? That’s the question on the table after Microsoft unveiled still more details of its next-generation operating system on the first day of its BUILD conference. Windows and Windows Live president Steven Sinofsky used his Sept. 13 keynote to offer a […]

The majority of buzz surrounding Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 has centered on the operating system’s support for tablets. That’s understandable, considering the white-hot tablet market-not to mention the novelty of seeing Microsoft’s strategy to conquer that market finally under way. It also means that Windows 8 desktop-centric aspects have taken something of a backseat for […]

Microsoft’s Financial Analyst Meeting 2011 offered executives the chance to tout what they termed the company’s “momentum” over the past year. Xbox Kinect, Office 365 and other offerings were all cited as drivers of that momentum. However, executives also emphasized the relative newness of the latest generation of products, as if to suggest their true […]

Samsung filed a legal complaint in France against Apple, extending a worldwide courtroom battle in which both companies accuse the other of intellectual-property violations. “The complaint focuses on three technology patents, and not on the design of the tablets,” a Samsung spokesperson told Agence France-Presse, which reported that the first court hearing is scheduled for […]

Apple will send the “golden master” of its upcoming iOS mobile operating system to its iPhone and iPod Touch manufacturing partners sometime in late September, according to the Apple-centric blog MacRumors. The blog is drawing its information from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who apparently threw some cold water on reports of an overhauled iPhone in the […]

Microsoft plans on offering additional insight into Windows 8 at its BUILD conference, scheduled to kick off Sept. 13 in Anaheim, Calif. As part of that developer-centric “deep dive” into the operating system, Microsoft executives will focus on Windows 8’s capability to work on a wide variety of form factors, from desktops to tablets. The […]

Samsung is planning to release a pair of Windows Phone “Mango” devices this fall, despite rumors that it will end support for the Windows Phone platform by the end of 2012. Those high-end devices include the 4G-capable Samsung Focus S, which will feature a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED (active-matrix organic LED) Plus display and 1.4GHz processor […]

In the course of promoting Windows Phone, Microsoft executives have seized on Android’s supposed fragmentation issues, arguing that Google’s platform is in serious danger of splitting itself across too many versions on too many different devices. Google CEO Larry Page has embarked on a quest to refocus his company on its core properties, a strategy […]

Microsoft’s week involved even more Windows 8 revelations, a cloud outage and a continuation of its push against Android. So far this week, Microsoft’s Building Windows 8 blog has offered glimpses of Windows 8’s support for Hyper-V and faster boot times. In a video embedded in the blog’s Sept. 8 posting, a Windows team member […]