Nicholas Kolakowski

Amazon is taking another step forward in the e-reader game with the launch of its Kindle Cloud Reader, which lets users read Kindle e-books via their Web browser without the need to download and install an app. “We have written the application from the ground up in HTML5, so that customers can also access their […]

Microsoft’s share of the U.S. explicit core search market remained unchanged between June and July, according to new data from research firm comScore. Overall, Google Websites led in July with 65.1 percent of the U.S. market, a slight decrease from 65.5 percent in June. Yahoo came in second with 16.1 percent, a tiny uptick from […]

Kindle Cloud Reader Amazon’s Kindle Cloud Reader lets users read Kindle e-books via their Web browsers without the need to download and install an application. Offline Reading With Kindle Cloud Reader, users can access their content offline via the browser. Cloud Page Kindle Cloud Reader also offers a holistic view of the user’s entire Kindle […]

Motorola is apparently willing to consider the merits of Microsoft’s Windows Phone, despite the well-publicized patent issues between the two companies. “I would have to consider whether defocusing from Android to Windows will be the right thing for us to do,” Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said during a speech at the Oppenheimer Technology & Communications […]

Live in the United States? Have your eyes on a Nokia smartphone running Symbian? Tough luck. According to reports, the Finnish phone maker is planning to end sales of its Symbian-based smartphones and feature phones in North America, effectively doubling down on its bet that Microsoft’s Windows Phone will reverse its recent market-share declines. As […]

Microsoft’s Windows 7 is primed to become the world’s leading operating system by the end of 2011, according to a new research report from Gartner. Windows 7’s expected presence on 42 percent of PCs in use by the end of the year should come as no surprise, considering how the operating system comes loaded on […]

Microsoft executive Charlie Kindel is leaving the company after 21 years. As general manager for Windows Phone’s developer ecosystem, he played a key role in the development of Windows Phone, which represents Microsoft’s best hope for re-establishing a presence in the ultra-competitive smartphone market. Kindel’s apparently heading to a startup, although an Aug. 8 posting […]

Apple could challenge Hewlett-Packard, Dell and other PC manufacturers for the balance of 2011, according to a new analyst report. “Within the computing market, we see significant opportunity for Apple to take meaningful share in the second half as the Microsoft / PC ecosystem is relatively stagnant, lacking meaningful new offerings,” Chris Whitmore, an analyst […]

Some 45,000 Verizon workers, or roughly a quarter of the carrier’s employee base, have gone on strike across the country, potentially disrupting everything from equipment repairs to new installations. Rallies and picketing have reportedly started at dozens of Verizon work locations. The striking workers hail from two unions, the CWA (Communications Workers of America) and […]

Desktop Service and Support As IT systems become more complex (and widespread, with dozens of mobile devices entering the market), the need for service and support is greater than ever. IT Project Management The success or failure of a particular IT project is usually dependent on the effectiveness of its manager. IT/Software Development Designing and […]

Why is Windows Phone failing? Granted, Microsoft always acknowledged that its latest smartphone platform would face a hard road to widespread adoption. But executives in Redmond probably had their fingers crossed that Windows Phone’s market behavior would resemble that of its Bing search engine: slow but steady incremental gains, paired with largely positive press. Windows […]

Research In Motion’s first QNX-powered BlackBerry will make its debut in the first quarter of 2012, according to a new report by the blog Boy Genius Report. On top of that, the device is apparently code-named “Colt,” which tells you everything you need to know about RIM’s hopes: After months and months of executives talking […]