Nicholas Kolakowski

Windows Phone now boasts more than 30,000 applications, according to the Windows Phone App List, which breaks down statistics related to Microsoft’s smartphone platform. Moreover, the Website graphs upward trend lines for not only applications filling the Windows Phone Marketplace, but also total approved developers. Some 47 percent of applications on the marketplace are apparently […]

Research In Motion finds itself in something of an unenviable quandary these days. The company that helped pioneer the whole concept of a smartphone, and which retains an audience of loyal users within businesses worldwide, is under marketplace assault from a legion of determined competitors: not only Apple’s iPhone, which is rapidly working its way […]

BlackBerry 7 OS RIMs newest line of smartphones runs the BlackBerry 7 OS, an updated operating system with preinstalled applications such as the enhanced BlackBerry Messenger 6. Battery Life As with previous BlackBerry generations, the Bold offers battery life superior to many other smartphones on the market, capable of going nearly two days (in testing) […]

Microsoft will almost certainly reveal some significant details about Windows 8 at September’s BUILD conference. In the meantime, the company seems content to dribble out tiny glimpses of its upcoming operating system, courtesy of the Building Windows 8 blog. Overwhelmingly, the blog’s posts have focused much less on Windows 8’s user interface, and much more […]

Freshly minted Apple CEO Tim Cook now has added incentive to stay with the company for the next decade, according to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Apple’s board of directors has awarded Cook with one million shares of restricted company stock. He will receive half that block in 2016 and the […]

As with much of this crazy August, Microsoft’s week was dominated less by the company’s own news, and much more by seismic shifts among its competitors. With Steve Jobs having resigned his longtime CEO post at Apple, pundits from both coasts have started ruminating over what his departure means for the smartphone game at large-a […]

August is typically regarded as one of the slower months, at least when it comes to tech news. But this August? Not so much. It started with Google’s announced intent to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, a move that (if approved) will fundamentally alter the smartphone game. “We recently explained how companies, including Microsoft […]

Microsoft could offer attendees of September’s BUILD conference a quad-core tablet running Windows 8, speculate a number of reports emerging online. Those reports have their origin in Microsoft’s recent TechEd New Zealand conference, where Microsoft principal architect Patrick Hevesi apparently offered up a glimpse of this rumored tablet. IT consultant Alan Burchill, attending the conference, […]

It’s becoming an all-touch-screen world, at least when it comes to smartphones. That’s the prediction of a new report from ABI Research, which suggests that 97 percent of all smartphones will feature touch-screens by 2016. Compare that to the 7 percent of touch-screen-equipped smartphones in 2006, and you have some idea of the incredible popularity […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ resignation has sparked off a not-unexpected flurry of analysis and commentary from across the technology industry. In a letter to Apple’s board of directors and employees, Jobs suggested he could “no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO.” He asked the board to activate a prearranged succession plan and […]

Steve Jobs’ decision to resign as Apple’s CEO comes at a particularly auspicious time: over the next few quarters, the company is expected to release the next version of its blockbuster iPhone, along with a new iPad. The stakes couldn’t be higher for either device. Despite its significant market share, the iPhone faces a very […]

Jobs and Woz When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple, they started off assembling computers in Jobs’ parents’ garage. Apple II Apple’s early computers, including the Apple II, helped ignite interest in PCs as a tool for everyday life, and very quickly made Jobs a multimillionaire. Classic Mac In 1985, Jobs found himself ejected […]