Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple’s white iPhone 4 features an altered camera aperture and proximity sensor, according to a preliminary teardown by a Japanese blog. If confirmed, that would support earlier rumors that issues with the camera and sensors were behind the device’s repeated delays. The Japanese blog Macotakara posted the images from their teardown, distributed widely in turn […]

Apple may be prepping an “iCloud” service under the codename “Castle,” according to blogs digging into the third build of Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” Developer Preview 2. Digital Daily reported April 29 that Apple had bought the iCloud domain name from Xcerion, a Swedish hybrid-cloud vendor. That information came from unnamed sources. Current rumors […]

Microsoft’s week was big on the corporate side of things: an earnings report, a few statements about a particular policy and the prospect of a drawn-out legal battle with … a book retailer? As improbable as it may have seemed even five years ago, Microsoft is locking legal horns with Barnes & Noble, which fired […]

Microsoft’s quarterly numbers may rival the GDP of a small nation, but some numbers for the most recent quarter have analysts suggesting the company needs to expand beyond the traditional lines of business that fuel so much of its bottom line. Microsoft’s third-quarter revenue hit $16.43 billion, a year-over-year increase of 13 percent. Net income […]

In what at least one wit has dubbed “Thicknessgate,” Apple’s white iPhone 4 is apparently 0.2mm thicker than its black counterpart. As you can see from the images posted on the Apple-centric blog MacRumors, both iPhone 4 models boast an exterior antenna rim of equal thickness. The white version’s casing, though, is slightly thicker. Apple’s […]

Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and other e-readers might dangle the prospect of convenience for millions of bibliophiles around the world, with their light weight and instant access to whole libraries of e-books, but a new analyst report suggests the devices could eventually prove bad news for the publishing industry as a whole. “The […]

Will the white iPhone 4 boost Apple’s share of the smartphone market? According to new research by NPD Group, Apple is managing to hold its own against the growing army of Google Android smartphones without the help of a new device-or at least, a new device color-on the market. On the basis of first-quarter smartphone […]

Microsoft’s quarterly earnings rose on solid sales of Office 2010 and the Xbox Kinect hands-free controller, despite some reported softness in PC sales during the period. Microsoft’s third-quarter revenue hit $16.43 billion, a year-over-year increase of 13 percent. Net income rose 31 percent, to $5.23 billion. Revenue for the company’s Business Division, which produces Office […]

Finally Arrived The white iPhone 4 arrives on the market nearly a year after the initial debut of its all-black twin. Delays Apple reportedly wrestled with some production issues in bringing a satisfactory version of the white iPhone 4 to life. Retina Display Like the other iPhone 4, the white version features a 3.5-inch Retina […]

SAP reported first-quarter net profits of $597 million, off total revenues of $4.4 billion, with company executives offering an optimistic forecast for the rest of the year despite continued pressure from rivals such as Microsoft and Oracle and numbers that failed to meet forecasts by a survey of Dow Jones analysts. SAP’s net profit rose […]

Research In Motion has acquired Tungle, an application that syncs users’ calendars to streamline scheduling and eliminate snafus like double-bookings. “Tungle is a leading provider of cloud-based calendar and scheduling services that makes it easy for users to share their availability and schedule appointments regardless of their choice of desktop, mobile or cloud-based calendar,” read […]

After months of delays and speculation, Apple officially announced the white iPhone 4 will arrive on store shelves April 28. Both Verizon and AT&T will offer the smartphone in the United States. “The white iPhone 4 has finally arrived and it’s beautiful,” Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, wrote in an […]