Nicholas Kolakowski

The New York Times plans on slamming down a paywall on its digital content, following other publications, in an attempt to profit from its online material. Starting March 28, Times readers in the United States will have free access to 20 articles per month. Anything beyond that will involve a series of payments: $15 per […]

Microsoft claims more than 2.35 million downloads of Internet Explorer 9 in the new browser’s first 24 hours of release. “That is over 27 downloads every second,” Ryan Gavin, senior director for Internet Explorer, wrote in a March 16 posting on The Windows Blog, “or over 240 downloads every nine seconds.” The number of IE9 […]

Research In Motion is planning to partner with Microsoft on the latter’s cloud offerings, which will be integrated into BlackBerry devices as well as the upcoming Playbook tablet. “Cloud has always been core to our business,” Alec Taylor, vice president of Software, Services and Enterprise Marketing for RIM, told analysts and reporters listening to a […]

Apple’s weight-loss regimen for the iPad 2 included redesigning the battery structure, adopting some new technologies, and eliminating one key part. That’s according to a March 16 report from analysis firm IHS iSuppli, which conducted one of its high-profile teardowns of the next-generation tablet. According to that report, the slimming-down of the iPad 2’s battery […]

Samsung has a wide-ranging offensive planned for spring, with a variety of new devices and software seemingly designed not only to challenge Apple in the consumer market, but also tech titans such as Google and Lenovo. At a March 16 event in New York City, Samsung executives suggested that these devices-including but not limited to […]

Microsoft’s first major Windows Phone 7 update will arrive preinstalled on the HTC Arrive from Sprint, according to a Phone Scoop report. The “NoDo” update includes cut-and-paste functionality, along with faster application loading. According to that report, the HTC Arrive ships March 20. That would dovetail neatly with Microsoft’s current predictions that the update will […]

Customers who order an iPad 2 via Apple’s online store will need to wait between four to five weeks for their tablet to arrive. While Apple has not yet released official sales figures for the iPad 2’s first weekend of release, a selected number of analysts feel the company will sell between 500,000 and 600,000 […]

Microsoft may have killed its Zune portable media player, according to reports. However, the company seems reluctant to share details about its future plans for the Zune franchise, whose hardware includes the touch-screen Zune HD and first- and second-generation Zune. “We have nothing to announce about another Zune device,” a Microsoft spokesperson e-mailed to eWEEK […]

Microsoft went simple in Internet Explorer 9, the next iteration of its browser franchise released March 14-stripping down the user interface and rendering the frame translucent, the better to place Websites front-and-center. But that wasn’t the only substantive change. Microsoft claims-perhaps inevitably-that this new browser sets benchmarks for speed, security and content support. If anything, […]

Microsoft has a lot riding on its March 14 launch of Internet Explorer 9. Although the company’s Internet Explorer franchise continues to hold a substantial portion of the browser market, it faces aggressive competition from Firefox, Google Chrome and other rivals. The final version of Internet Explorer 9 will be available starting 9 p.m. PST. […]

Apple’s iPad 2 is attracting first-time iPad buyers, according to a new survey by analyst firm Piper Jaffray. That could bode well for the new tablet, which Apple needs to help fend off competition from a number of high-powered rivals, including the Motorola Xoom and Research In Motion’s upcoming PlayBook. “We spoke with 236 people […]

Sprint and Kyocera plan to make the dual-screen Kyocera Echo smartphone available April 17, for a retail price of $199 with a two-year contract. In a bid to drum up consumer interest ahead of the release, Sprint is also taking reservations for the device online, starting March 26. On Feb. 7, Sprint hosted a high-profile […]