Nicholas Kolakowski

T-Mobile’s 4G-capable BlackBerry Bold 9900 will make its store-shelf debut Aug. 31, with the carrier offering preorders for its business customers Aug. 17. T-Mobile recently expanded its 4G network to Atlantic City, N.J., and Florence, Ala., for a total of 194 markets across the United States. In theory, the network is capable of 21M bps […]

Sales of Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad are flagging at Best Buy stores, according to a new report. If accurate, that’s a potential sign of wider trouble for HP’s tablet. “According to one source who’s seen internal HP reports,” read an Aug. 16 piece by Arik Hesseldahl on AllThingsD, “Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 TouchPads and […]

Microsoft’s Office 365 seems to be experiencing some outages. “We apologize for the inconvenience that the [Office 365] outage has caused today. We’re [sic] are working on resolving the issue,” read an Aug. 17 tweet posted at 3:30 EST on Microsoft’s cloud-services Twitter account. Around 20 minutes later, Microsoft’s official Office 365 Twitter account posted: […]

Firefox 6 Mozilla released Firefox 6 a mere two months after the previous version hit the Web. As you can see, that could cause some issues with add-on compatibility. User Interface Firefox 6s user interface remains largely unchanged from that of its immediate predecessor. Highlighting New tweaks to the browser include reduced startup times and […]

Google rivals continue to voice their reservations about the search-engine giant’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. “If I happened to be someone who was an Android manufacturer or an operator, or anyone with a stake in that environment,” Nokia CEO Stephen Elop (a former Microsoft executive) told a crowd in Helsinki, according to Reuters […]

Mozilla has released Firefox 6.0, barely two months after the previous version of the popular browser hit the Web. The latest release is available via Mozilla’s Website. The organization also moved Firefox 7 to beta, according to a posting on the MozillaWiki. Mozilla is keeping this release a low-key affair, as befitting a browser update […]

It seems the tech pundits were right: Within a day of Google announcing it would acquire handset-maker Motorola Mobility (and its extensive patent hoard) for $12.5 billion, Microsoft began its appeal to the search engine giant’s other Android partners. “Investing in a broad and truly open mobile ecosystem is important for the industry and consumers […]

More than one-third of American adults own a smartphone “of some kind,” according to new survey data from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. That’s in comparison to the 83 percent who own a cell phone. In other words, if you ever needed proof that Americans are truly going mobile, it’s here. […]

AT&T’s first LTE/HSPA+ devices will reportedly arrive in the carrier’s stores (and online) starting Aug. 21. The AT&T USBConnect Momentum 4G and AT&T Mobile Hotspot Elevate 4G are designed to leverage AT&T’s coming 4G LTE network. The carrier plans on charging a monthly $50 for 5GB, and $10 for each additional gigabyte thereafter. On Aug. […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) is a game-changer on several fronts, particularly in the patent arena. Android sits at the center of several ongoing patent disputes, some of which have escalated into particularly vicious courtroom battles. Earlier this year, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) led a consortium of companies in a […]

Should Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility drive Microsoft to buy either Nokia or Research In Motion? That’s the question zipping around the blogosphere after Google announced it would snatch up Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. The search-engine giant and the handset maker already had something of a tight relationship, as exemplified by the latter’s popular […]

In one of the few bits of Aug. 15 tech news that doesn’t involve the word “Google” or “Motorola,” Verizon Wireless is making the BlackBerry Bold 9930 available via its online store, to be followed by an Aug. 25 release in stores. In a bid to appeal to both consumers and the enterprise, Research In […]