Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple’s white iPhone 4 is apparently on track for a spring release, according to a Tweet from Philip Schiller, the company’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing. In response to a March 13 Tweet from one Eric Anderson-asking, “How do I get a white iphone?”-Schiller (or someone using his verified account) Tweeted back: “Hi […]

Canadian firm i4i has submitted its brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in a long-running patent-infringement suit with Microsoft. The case, Microsoft vs. i4i Limited Partnership, 10-290, is expected to be heard in April 2011. “We continue to be confident that i4i will prevail,” Loudon Owen, chairman of i4i, wrote in a March 14 statement. […]

It proved to be a big week for Microsoft-not because of any product rollouts or software updates, but because of its partners and rivals. Or rather, make that partners that will become rivals. A March 9 Bloomberg report detailed Hewlett-Packard’s alleged plans to port its recently acquired webOS operating system onto laptops and desktops, with […]

Apple could sell more than 600,000 iPad 2 units over the weekend, Gleacher & Co. analyst Brian Marshall told Bloomberg March 11. That would more than double the pace set by the original iPad, which moved 300,000 units in its first 24 hours of release in April 2010. That number included preorders. Marshall joins other […]

Nokia’s first Windows Phone 7 devices won’t hit the market for another two years, and the company’s partnership with Microsoft carries some wide-ranging and systemic risks. That comes from Nokia’s publicly released Form 20-F 2010 report, a massive tome submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and posted on Nokia’s Website. A good portion […]

Microsoft is delaying a major Windows Phone 7 update until the second half of March, according to the company. That long-awaited tweaking, which will add cut-and-paste functionality and faster application loading, was originally slated for the first two weeks of this month. “After careful consultation with the team and our many partners, we’ve decided to […]

Apple launches the iPad 2 March 11, hoping to maintain its lead in the increasingly crowded tablet arena-even as new data suggests the company’s share of that market tumbled by the end of 2010. That data, from research firm IDC, pegs Apple’s share by the fourth quarter of last year at 73 percent, down from […]

First Microsoft filed a legal claim to deny Apple the trademark to the term “app store.” Then Apple filed back, arguing its arch-rival’s logic and evidence failed to “create a new genericness standard.” Now Microsoft’s felt compelled to return fire-but not with a complex legal argument. Instead, the tech giant wants Apple’s brief shot down […]

Microsoft may be struggling against Apple and Google to win the hearts of consumers, but the company can take pride in at least one achievement: Kinect, its hands-free controller for the Xbox 360, is now the world’s fastest-selling consumer electronics device. That record was confirmed by Guinness World Records, which knows a thing or two […]

Hewlett-Packard’s reported intention to port its recently acquired webOS onto its PCs could be a smart move for the company, according to analysts. But it also risks antagonizing Microsoft, which until this point has been a major software partner. A March 9 Bloomberg report quotes HP CEO Leo Apotheker as saying the move would create […]

As suggested by the ever-grinding Apple rumor mill, the iOS 4.3 upgrade for iPhone and iPad released to mobile-device owners a few days earlier than the official March 11 release date. On March 8, the blog Boy Genius Report suggested that Apple would push the update out on that date, at 10 a.m. PST. However, […]

Most purchasers of Apple’s iPad and iPad 2 probably intend to use the tablet as a consumption device, an ideal way for watching movies or cruising the Web. That being said, with more and more Apple products finding their way into the enterprise (largely through executives and other workers insisting that IT integrate their personal […]