Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple’s iPhone 5 will feature a curved-glass touch-screen display, according to a new DigiTimes report. “Cover glass makers are reluctant to commit investment to the purchase of glass cutting equipment due to the high capital involved,” according to the May 23 report, citing unnamed sources. “Apple reportedly has purchased 200-300 glass cutting machines to be […]

An explosion at Foxconn’s production plant May 20 killed three workers and raised questions over whether production of the iPad 2 and other Apple products will be affected. Early reports cited combustible dust in the plant’s polishing workshop as the cause of the explosion, which also injured 15 workers. Foxconn manufactures iPads and iPhones for […]

For more than a year, Microsoft has been pushing an aggressive “all in” cloud strategy. The reason behind it is simple: Although desktop-bound software such as Windows and Office continues to dump tons of cash at the company’s front door, a paradigm shift is underway-one that threatens to leave Microsoft behind as consumers and businesses […]

Days after a hiccup in its cloud-based BPOS service cut business clients off from email, Microsoft announced that it had closed a deal with the city and county of San Francisco to port 23,000 municipal employees to the company’s cloud. The San Francisco deal had been in the works long before the BPOS outage, but […]

Google Android seized some 36 percent of the worldwide smartphone market in the first quarter, according to new numbers from research firm Gartner. That was enough to topple Nokia’s Symbian from its perch as the world’s leading smartphone system. But Symbian’s a dead operating system walking, anyway, thanks to Nokia’s abandoning it in favor of […]

Apple is reportedly closer than ever to launching a streaming-music competitor to Google and Amazon. According to Bloomberg, Apple has signed deals with Sony, EMI Group and Warner Music Group “to let users of its new music service access their song collections from handheld devices via the Internet.” Users could access their music via Apple’s […]

Can Verizon alter Windows Phone’s fortunes? On May 26, Verizon will release the HTC Trophy, its first Windows Phone device. As with other Windows Phone units released over the past few months on other carriers, it will feature a 1GHz processor, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, 16GB of storage, and a 3.8-inch touch-screen. In a May 19 […]

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is claiming that Kindle e-books are outselling hardcover and paperback print books on its Website. “We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly-we’ve been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years,” Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO […]

Microsoft’s Windows Phone sold 1.6 million units in the first quarter, according to new data from research firm Gartner. The smartphones, which represent Microsoft’s all-or-nothing attempt to take market share from the likes of Google Android and the Apple iPhone, originally made their debut in late 2010. Windows Phone “devices launched at the end of […]

Microsoft is biting back at an Intel executive’s comments about the next version of Windows. “Intel’s statements during yesterday’s Intel investor meeting about Microsoft’s plans for the next version of Windows were factually inaccurate and unfortunately misleading,” Mark Martin, a Microsoft spokesperson, wrote in a May 19 statement. “From the first demonstrations of Windows on […]

An Intel executive suggested during a company investor meeting May 18 that Microsoft will manufacture different versions of its upcoming “Windows 8” tailored for Intel and ARM-based devices. That echoes statements made by Microsoft executives at January’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Bloomberg reports that Renee James, senior vice president and general manager of […]

Microsoft has resumed updates for Samsung Omnia 7 and Focus smartphones running its Windows Phone software. “Today we restarted updating Omnia 7 phones,” Eric Hautala, general manager for Microsoft’s Customer Experience Engineering unit, wrote in a May 17 posting on The Windows Blog. “The restart is happening in phases. Go to the Zune software and […]