Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple’s next big product? If you believe one analyst, it’ll be a television set. “We continue to believe that Apple is developing a television that will succeed its current Apple TV set-top-box, likely in late [calendar year] 2012,” Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, wrote in a June 23 research note. “As recently as […]

Samsung Replenish The Samsung Replenish offers a 2.8-inch touch screen, physical QWERTY keyboard, and Android 2.2. Its carrier is Sprint. Samsung Droid Charge The Droid Charge boasts a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED screen, running Android 2.2. Its a high-end Android smartphone in the mode of the HTC ThunderBolt. Lenovo ThinkPad X1 The 13.3-inch Lenovo ThinkPad X1 […]

TouchPad The 9.7-inch TouchPad will make its store-shelf debut July 1. HP plans to offer the 16GB version of the tablet for $499.99, and the 32GB for $599.99. Processor The TouchPad relies on a 1.2GHz dual-core processor. It runs the webOS operating system, which HP acquired when it bought Palm in 2010. All-In-One HP has […]

Improvements and Tweaks Mozilla’s latest browser includes more than 1,000 improvements and performance enhancements. That being said, the actual user interface doesn’t vary much from Firefox 4. Add-Ons Mozilla is betting on the user appeal of add-ons that adjust Firefox’s look and functionality. Awesome Bar Firefox’s “Awesome Bar” includes an autocomplete function that tries to […]

Did Nokia CEO Stephen Elop trust too fully in a roomful of strangers, or is he trying to start a viral online campaign about his company’s upcoming Windows Phone devices? That’s the question after Elop flashed a smartphone running Windows Phone at a crowd of people, seconds after asking them to put away their cameras. […]

Mozilla’s new Firefox 5.0 for PCs and Firefox for Android hinge much of their appeal on a simple concept: That users will want to troll the Web in relative privacy. “Firefox for Android includes the Do Not Track privacy feature in this release, making Firefox the first browser to support Do Not Track on multiple […]

Apple’s next iPhone will debut in September and include the company’s faster A5 processor, according to a new Bloomberg report citing unnamed “people familiar with the plans.” Other features will apparently include an 8-megapixel camera and the company’s recently introduced iOS 5 mobile operating system. In addition, the June 21 article claims, Apple is developing […]

How reliable is the cloud? That’s a pressing question for consumers and businesses mulling whether to take their data off-premises. Meanwhile, tech companies fill their cloud literature with phrases like “redundant systems” and “security,” designed to soothe any fears about signing up for an online subscription service. Despite those assurances, problems do occur. Online storage […]

Samsung has experienced something of a setback in its high-profile legal battle with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), after U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh denied the manufacturer’s request for an advance look at the next iPad and iPhone. “Common sense suggests that allegations of copying are necessarily directed at Apple’s existing products,” she wrote, according to a June […]

Nokia is betting big on Windows Phone as the smartphone platform that will revive its fortunes. But until those devices begin hitting the market (with the first likely appearing at the end of this year), the Finnish phone-maker finds itself saddled with two mobile operating systems it’ll eventually drop from its lineup: Symbian and MeeGo. […]

Apple’s next iPhone will employ a “radical new case design” and may debut in August, according to an unnamed source speaking to the blog Boy Genius Report. If that timeline is confirmed, it would represent a definite change of pace for Apple, whose next regular shindig is usually September’s unveiling of the next round of […]

Apple’s new Final Cut Pro X is a totally reworked version of the company’s video-editing software, one the company claims has been “completely rebuilt from the ground up” and leverages 64-bit architecture to speed up the edit process. Final Cut Pro X is available for download via Apple’s Mac App Store for $299. New top-line […]