Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft’s week kicked off in a particularly noteworthy way, with the company’s legal counsel arguing April 18 before the U.S. Supreme Court that the longstanding standards for patent infringement should be lowered. Microsoft and Canadian firm i4i are concluding a years-long court battle, sparked by the latter claiming Word 2003 and 2007 violated its patents […]

Apple is facing some serious questions about how and why its mobile products collect users’ location data. But it’s not the first time the company has dealt with interrogation by lawmakers over its practices related to that sort of information. On April 21, U.S. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) fired off […]

Research In Motion’s PlayBook tablet hit store shelves April 19, failing to attract around-the-block lines but, at least according to one analyst, managing to sell a respectable 45,000 units on its first day of release. Jeffries & Co. analyst Peter Misek suggested in an April 20 research note that, based on sell-through surveys taken at […]

Apple’s iPhone and iPad compete fiercely with Samsung’s Galaxy S smartphones and Galaxy Tab tablet for mobile market share. Yet the two are also co-dependent, with Apple a major purchaser of components from Samsung, which is only too happy to cash the checks. However, a burst of lawsuits threatens to permanently alter that relationship. Samsung […]

Amazon has expanded its Kindle app offerings yet again, with an update to Kindle for Android that optimizes the e-reader software for tablets running Google Android 3.0 (code-named “Honeycomb”). In coming months, Honeycomb devices arriving on store shelves will challenge the Apple iPad’s dominance of the tablet market. The latest version of Kindle for Android […]

Microsoft and Nokia have signed a definitive agreement to partner on Windows Phone 7, formally beginning a relationship that could radically change the mobility landscape in years to come. Under the terms of that agreement, Nokia will manufacture devices loaded with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7, a mobile operating system that eschews the iPhone’s or Android’s […]

U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) has added his voice to the growing chorus of lawmakers demanding an explanation from Apple about a location-tracking feature in iOS 4. The iPhone and 3G-enabled iPad running iOS 4 have been saving location data to a hidden database file, according to Alasdair Allan, a researcher who wrote about discovering […]

Apple COO Tim Cook used his company’s April 20 earnings call to shed a little light on the company’s upcoming legal battle against Samsung, and offered a brief update on CEO Steve Jobs, who is officially absent on medical leave. “We do see him on a regular basis,” he said, referring to Jobs. “He continues […]

Slate Size The G-Slates 8.9-inch screen fits somewhere between 7-inch tablets such as Research In Motions newly released Playbook and the 9.7-inch iPad. Two Cameras, Three Dimensions The G-Slate also comes with a pair of stereoscopic cameras capable of capturing 3D footage. Honeycomb The G-Slate runs Google Android 3.0 (codenamed Honeycomb), optimized for the tablet […]

2012 Ford Focus The 2012 Ford Focus boasts a projected fuel economy of 40 miles to the gallon. 2012 Ford Focus Electric Ford claims this electric car will offer an equivalent of miles-per-gallon competitive with other electric vehicles on the market, courtesy of a 23 kwh lithium-ion battery system. Microsoft Sync Microsoft’s Sync gives drivers […]

Why buy when you can borrow? That’s what Amazon is asking. Amazon.com’s Kindle Library Lending feature, due later in 2011, will embrace that philosophy, allowing readers to borrow Kindle e-books from more than 11,000 libraries in the United States. In addition to checking out e-books, customers will have the ability to make annotations within the […]

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s new memoir, “Idea Man,” is more than an account of the company’s early days, or even a colorful portrayal of the executives-including Bill Gates and current CEO Steve Ballmer-who turned a tiny software startup into a tech-world behemoth: It’s also full of advice for Microsoft as it battles Google and Apple […]