Nicholas Kolakowski

Google and Microsoft are at each other’s throats over Android. The simmering rivalry between the two tech giants exploded this week, with executives trading barbs on Twitter and blog posts over patents related to mobile technology. This newest burst of aggression has its roots in a high-stakes auction that took place earlier this year. Microsoft […]

Microsoft’s competition with Google proved the highlight of the week, as a series of Tweets and blog postings by the respective companies’ executives threatened to make an already-tense relationship even more acrimonious. The stage was set earlier this year, when Microsoft and a handful of other companies submitted a winning $4.5 billion bid for the […]

Apple will seize some 61 percent of the tablet market this year, according to a new DigiTimes report. That prediction comes just as Apple’s rivals seem to be scrambling for any sort of competitive leverage against the iPad juggernaut. DigiTimes also expects Apple to ship some 25.5 million iPads in the second half of 2011, […]

HTC is clearly interested in competing with Apple and other companies in the mobile-cloud game, snatching up a Seattle-based company known for its device-syncing software. Financials of the agreement between the manufacturer and Seattle-based Dashwire remained undisclosed, but the latter will become a wholly owned subsidiary of HTC. Dashwire’s Dashworks platform allows users to access […]

Research In Motion will likely delay its next-generation QNX-powered “superphones” into the second half of 2012, suggests a new analyst report. If that proves accurate, it means the Canadian company will need to rely on its BlackBerry OS for an extended period of time. That could also prove problematic for RIM, whose latest BlackBerry devices-announced […]

By the end of 2011, a number of smartphone vendors will have placed some very big bets on their latest smartphones. If you subscribe to current rumors, Apple almost certainly plans to debut its iPhone 5 sometime in either September or October. Research In Motion just released a new slate of BlackBerry devices it will […]

Former Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel has been tapped to become the nation’s second Federal CIO. He will replace Vivek Kundra, who accepted a fellowship at Harvard University. VanRoekel worked at Microsoft for 15 years, eventually rising to senior director for the Windows Server and Tools Division. After leaving the company in 2009, he served as […]

Microsoft saw its smartphone market share decline in the three-month period ending in June, according to research firm comScore. Specifically, the company saw its share decline from 7.5 percent to 5.8 percent, over a period when both archrivals Google and Apple experienced gains. Research In Motion also dipped, from 27.1 percent to 23.4 percent. ComScore […]

Can Apple’s iPhone 5, combined with iCloud and iOS 5, handle carriers’ newfound love of throttling data? Considering Apple’s increasingly speedy migration into the consumer cloud-following in the footsteps of Google and Amazon.com, among others-that question is liable to become a pressing one by the end of the year. Apple is widely expected to release […]

Research In Motion has a plan for reversing its sagging fortunes in the smartphone space. Starting sometime in 2012, the Canadian company plans on producing a set of “superphones” with advanced hardware and a QNX-based operating system, more than capable of battling Apple’s iPhone and the growing family of Google Android smartphones on their own […]

Microsoft and Apple are among the targets of an apparent Justice Department probe into whether a host of former Nortel Networks patents will be used to attack Google Android. Earlier this year, the two companies led a consortium in a winning $4.5 billion bid for the 6,000 wireless technology patents and patent applications. They were […]

Torch 9850/9860 BlackBerrys Torch 9850/9860 rely on a 3.7-inch touch screen and lack a physical QWERTY keyboard. Outside the Comfort Zone The Torch 9850/9860s lack of the traditional BlackBerry keyboard hints at a RIM more willing to step out of its comfort zone, design-wise. BlackBerry 7 OS Like other RIM devices announced Aug. 3, the […]