Nicholas Kolakowski

Google has snatched up Java founder James Gosling. “Through some odd twists in the road over the past year, and a tardis encountered along the way, I find myself starting employment at Google today,” Gosling wrote in a March 28 posting on his blog. “I find it odd that this time I’m taking the road […]

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 damage control is reaching a new stage, with a company executive offering what essentially amounts to a mea culpa on an official Website. Last week, Microsoft claimed it had begun pushing through the long-awaited NoDo update for its new smartphone platform, which included a long-awaited cut-and-paste feature in addition to improvements […]

This week, Microsoft began pushing through its long-awaited “NoDo” update for Windows Phone 7, although device owners in the United States could have a longer wait before receiving theirs. The “NoDo” update includes cut-and-paste and improvements to Messaging, WiFi and Outlook. It tweaks the “stability of switching between camera and video modes,” according to information […]

For starters, Microsoft’s week saw the push-through of the long-awaited “NoDo” update for Windows Phone 7. In addition to cut-and-paste, the NoDo update features tweaks to Messaging, WiFi and Outlook. It improves the “stability of switching between camera and video modes,” according to information posted on Microsoft’s Windows Phone Website, and the experience of syncing […]

At this week’s CTIA conference in Orlando, it seemed like you couldn’t walk three feet without encountering another shiny example of the tech industry’s hopes for the next bestselling tablet. Motorola, LG Electronics, Samsung and HTC-alongside their carrier partners-seem intent on flooding the market over the next couple of months with touch-screens running Google Android […]

Microsoft’s cloud-based Windows InTune gives IT administrators for midsize businesses an enterprise-style level of control over a network, via a combination of cloud services, on-site PC-management tools and added malware protection. Whether it involves checking that software licenses are up-to-date, or diagnosing unbootable PCs, the platform is supposed to be streamlined for those IT pros’ […]

Bing director Stefan Weitz sat down with eWEEK March 24 to describe how Microsoft’s search engine will try to take advantage of evolutions in social networking and Web services to gain market share. Toppling Google’s dominance of the search market, however, doesn’t seem to be a viable short-term goal. “We don’t have to beat anybody […]

Apple will continue its robust growth for some time to come, according to the CEO of research firm Forrester. “They’ll be bigger than IBM next year, and they’ll be bigger than HP the year after that,” George Colony, who also founded the company, told Bloomberg. He predicted that Apple would eventually earn $200 billion in […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-CTIA’s second day of keynotes focused on both broadband’s spectacular growth, and the equally significant squeeze in spectrum facing the nation’s wireless providers. “It’s possible to just be walking down the street, even on Park Avenue in New York City, and lose your connectivity,” LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja told the audience gathered here for […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-Was Apple CEO Steve Jobs right about the 7-inch tablet? In October 2010, Jobs seemed almost gleeful as he denigrated 7-inch tablets as inferior to his 9.7-inch iPad. If you compare the diagonal lengths of a 7-inch and 10-inch screen, he told analysts and media assembled for his company’s quarterly earnings call, you find […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-Research In Motion has spent the past few months ramping up its 7-inch PlayBook tablet for its big debut-all while keeping two particularly vital bits of information, the release date and pricing scheme, under wraps. Now, as other manufacturers use this week’s CTIA conference to unveil their own entries into the tablet market, RIM […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of rival T-Mobile was the dominant issue during the opening keynotes at CTIA 2011, despite the best efforts of some speakers to keep the conversation focused on mobility’s burgeoning growth, driven by consumer and business interest in both smartphones and tablets. AT&T officials stunned the tech world when they […]