Nicholas Kolakowski

AT&T customers who purchased a Windows Phone 7 smartphone: expect your long-awaited software updates to arrive in April. Maybe. According to Microsoft’s handy chart of Windows Phone 7 updates, three AT&T smartphones-the HTC surround, LG Quantum and Samsung Focus-have entered a “Testing” phase for both their February and March updates, with completion estimated for early […]

Microsoft is filing a formal complaint with the European Commission, insisting that arch-rival Google’s competitive practices unfairly dominate the European search market. “We’re concerned by a broadening pattern of conduct aimed at stopping anyone else from creating a competitive alternative,” Brad Smith, Microsoft’s senior vice president and general counsel, wrote in a March 30 statement […]

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is publishing a memoir in May, titled “Idea Man,” that details the company’s early days. While that alone might not make national news, the book is attracting early buzz for scenes that depict both Bill Gates and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in a somewhat negative light. Although “Idea Man” has yet […]

A Dell executive is attracting a massive amount of attention for suggesting the Apple iPad will eventually bomb in the enterprise. “Apple is great if you’ve got a lot of money and live on an island,” Andy Lark, who leads the global marketing efforts for Dell’s Large Enterprise Group, told CIO Australia in a March […]

At least one Microsoft executive seems unconvinced that tablets are much more than a passing fad. “Mobile is something that you want to use while you’re moving, and portable is something that you move and then use,” Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, reportedly told the audience at a lunch in Sydney. “These […]

Not that anyone will be terribly surprised, but Apple’s iPad 2 boasts some marked differences between its Code Division Multiple Access, GSM and WiFi-only versions. That’s according to a new teardown report from iFixit, which opened the bestselling tablet for closer examination. “When comparing the GSM and CDMA versions of the iPad 2, the most […]

Amazon.com launched a heavy salvo against Google and Apple in the digital-music wars, with a new cloud-based service that allows customers to upload their music to the online retailer’s cloud drives and play songs via a “Cloud Player.” Both Apple and Google are reportedly planning “cloud media” applications for their respective product lines. In December […]

Nokia has filed another legal complaint against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission, accusing its rival of infringing on mobile patents. “Our latest ITC filing means we now have 46 Nokia patents in suit against Apple, many filed more than 10 years before Apple made its first iPhone,” Paul Melin, Nokia’s vice president of […]

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 will surpass Research In Motion’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iOS to become the second-ranked smartphone operating system in the world by 2015, according to a new report from research firm IDC. Much of that gain will come courtesy of Microsoft’s recent partnership with Nokia, which will see Windows Phone 7 ported onto […]

Apple may delay the release of the next iPhone, according to online rumors, but developers and media could nonetheless have their first glimpse of the next iOS at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, set for June 6-10 in San Francisco. “At this year’s conference, we are going to unveil the future of iOS and Mac […]

To support or not support older versions of a product? For Microsoft and Opera, that’s becoming the question. Opera introduced its Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11 browsers March 22, just in time for last week’s CTIA conference in Orlando, Fla. As with any browser upgrade, the two newest additions to Opera’s software family […]

What makes a company attractive to potential employees? Universum, a research firm focused on employer branding, recently asked some 10,000 respondents to rate U.S. companies on their attractiveness as places to work. Tech ended up dominating much of the list: Google and Apple took the first two spots, respectively, followed at No. 5 by Amazon.com […]