Nicholas Kolakowski

If federal regulators deny AT&T the chance to acquire T-Mobile, the possibility exists it could leave the latter as the only carrier to not offer Apple’s iPhone in the United States. In August, the Wall Street Journal reported that Sprint would offer Apple’s next-generation iPhone, popularly dubbed the “iPhone 5.” In doing so, the carrier […]

Specs Lenovo’s tablet features a 10.1-inch screen (fronted with ultra-tough Gorilla Glass) and weighs 1.65 pounds. A dual-core 1GHz processor powers its applications. Add-Ons The ThinkPad runs Android 3.1 (a tweak of the build codenamed Honeycomb), and includes a few interface tweaks, including this spinning apps “tray.” Battery Life Lenovo claims the tablet will provide […]

Microsoft and its manufacturing partners continue to gear up for the release of “Mango,” a wide-ranging update to Windows Phone. As part of that, HTC plans on releasing a pair of Windows Phone devices in October. The first, the Titan, includes a 4.7-inch screen and a front-facing camera. The second, the HTC Radar, encloses its […]

Hewlett-Packard’s plan to spin off its Personal Systems Group, its PC manufacturing arm, could damage the company’s position with small to midsize businesses, according to a pair of analysts. “Our prognosis is that without PSG, HP’s value proposition will be much weaker in SMBs,” Sanjeev Aggarwal and Laurie McCabe, analysts with the SMB Group, wrote […]

Apple may have revealed the shape of its next iPhone-the iPhone 5-in the beta for its Photo Stream service. As detailed on the Apple-centric blog 9to5Mac, there’s a tiny icon in the beta of an unusual-looking iPhone, complete with a rectangular home button and a screen that stretches nearly the whole width of the device. […]

Salesforce.com is introducing a new round of features to its Chatter social-networking platform, in effect increasing its bet that businesses will want to give their workers a Facebook- and Twitter-style experience. Chatter allows employees to post comments and share files in a Facebook-style environment. These additions will include Chatter Now, an instant messaging tool that […]

FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors are apparently investigating whether Oracle violated anti-bribery laws in its interactions with certain African countries, reported The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31. The WSJ cited anonymous sources for information about the year-long investigation, which has focused on Oracle employees possibly making improper payments related to closing software sales. The […]

Ahead of September’s BUILD conference, Microsoft is taking steps to position its upcoming Windows 8 as a platform meant equally for tablets and traditional PCs. Even before it began offering sanctioned glimpses of Windows 8 earlier this summer, Microsoft touted the operating system’s interoperability with tablets. During this past January’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in […]

Samsung might find itself in a legal brawl with Apple over alleged patent infringement, but the manufacturer still seems determined to take on the iPhone in the one place that ultimately matters: store shelves. The Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone, due to arrive in the United States on three carriers in September, offers the sort […]

Sprint is apparently ordering its employees to deflect questions about Apple’s next iPhone appearing on the carrier, according to a leaked internal memo. A recent Wall Street Journal article suggested that Sprint will join Verizon and AT&T in carrying the iPhone, which has been popularly dubbed “iPhone 5.” Apple itself has yet to unveil the […]

Microsoft is continuing its public deep-geek dive into the particulars of Windows 8, with a new corporate blog entry focusing on the upcoming operating system’s easy interoperability with two popular file-storage formats. “The trend of incredibly large- and small-form-factor hard discs means we can store ever increasing amounts of data without worrying about running out […]

Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad apparently isn’t as dead as everyone thought. When HP killed its tablet earlier this month, slashing the price by hundreds of dollars in a bid to clear inventory, a funny thing happened: Thousands of people rushed to stores and online to snatch up a high-end device at a steal. That was a startling […]