Nicholas Kolakowski

ORLANDO, Fla.-Whether or not T-Mobile eventually ends up absorbed by AT&T, the carrier is still pushing forward into the tablet and smartphone spaces. At this year’s CTIA conference here March 22, the company is showing off the results of its latest collaboration with LG Electronics: the G2x, an Android smartphone with a muscular dual-core processor, […]

Microsoft took another swipe at rival Google’s Android platform March 21, with the filing of legal actions against bookseller Barnes & Noble and manufacturers Foxconn International Holdings and Inventec. At issue is Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader, which Microsoft argues violates its patents. “The Android platform infringes a number of Microsoft’s patents, and companies manufacturing […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-Sprint is making a big bet on the continuing popularity of 3D technology, with plans to roll out a tablet and smartphone capable of both shooting and displaying content in three dimensions without the need for special glasses. The smartphone, the HTC Evo 3D, includes Google Android 2.3 (code-named “Gingerbread”) running on a 4.3-inch […]

AT&T plans on acquiring for T-Mobile for $39 billion in cash and stock, a blockbuster announcement that’s left pundits and media scrambling to predict how the telecommunications landscape will change in months and years to come. At least some T-Mobile customers, though, have a much simpler question: When can I get my hands on an […]

Within a day of AT&T’s announcement that it will acquire T-Mobile for $39 billion in cash and stock, the carrier moved pre-emptively to position the deal as good for competition and the United States’ telecommunications network. Should the acquisition meet approval, it would make AT&T by far the largest carrier in the United States. In […]

The Japanese earthquake has apparently suspended 25 percent of the global production of silicon wafers, according to a new report from research firm IHS iSuppli. Those wafers are used to craft semiconductors, which has far-reaching implications for high-end enterprise hardware such as PC, server and IT storage systems, as well as consumer products like smartphones […]

Will Microsoft push through its long-awaited Windows Phone 7 “NoDo” update this week? Microsoft has predicted that the update, which includes faster application loading and a cut-and-paste feature, will push into its smartphone ecosystem in the second half of March. In addition, new Windows Phone 7 smartphones from AT&T and Sprint are hitting the marketplace […]

For most consumers (and businesses), the most important piece of news coming out of Microsoft’s week was the March 14 release of Internet Explorer 9, the latest version of the company’s browser. The IE9 final version is available at www.BeautyOfTheWeb.com. While the Internet Explorer franchise continues to hold the majority of the browser market, it […]

Hewlett-Packard isn’t exactly shying down from a fight. In a March 14 press conference, freshly minted CEO Leo Apotheker has made it clear he intends to take the manufacturer in some new and radical directions, ones that will bring his company in direct and aggressive competition with not only its longtime rivals, but also a […]

AT&T has a message for customers who’ve been tethering their smartphones’ data connections to nearby laptops without paying for it: Stop it. Right now. A handful of applications for jailbroken smartphones, including MyWi, allow owners to tether without having to shell out an additional fee to AT&T. (Users with “rooted” Android smartphones can also install […]

Microsoft is claiming responsibility for the takedown of the massive Rustock botnet, which stopped sending out spam midmorning March 16. Estimates of Rustock’s size varied between 1.1 million and 1.7 million infected computers, and the botnet may have been responsible for 47.5 percent of all spam sent worldwide by the end of 2010. Rustock also […]

It’s no secret that Microsoft faces a host of challenges as it attempts to shift its focus from the traditional and desktop-bound to a more cloud-centric, mobile-focused model. For companies with tens of thousands of employees and decades’ worth of institutional memory, recoding the corporate DNA to meet new challenges is an undertaking with a […]