Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple is widely expected to unveil the next-generation iPad in a San Francisco event March 2-and, according to at least one analyst, the device’s importance to the company is paramount. “This event is not to be taken lightly, as the iPad is an important growth driver for Apple, and the company enjoys a first-mover advantage,” […]

Motorola’s Xoom tablet costs the manufacturer approximately $359.92 in materials, according to a new teardown by analysis firm IHS iSuppli. That brings the device roughly in line with archrival iPad, whose 32GB model with 3G capability costs Apple about $320 to build. “With its features and functionality, the Xoom is clearly designed to go head-to-head […]

Motorola’s Xoom tablet has been touted as one of the first true Apple iPad competitors to hit the market, and a new teardown from analysis firm IHS iSuppli suggests the device contains exactly the sort of under-the-hood hardware to back up that assertion. The 10.1-inch Xoom runs Google Android 3.0, codenamed “Honeycomb,” which has been […]

Microsoft’s cloud campaign is continuing with Windows Intune, a cloud-based IT management platform the company plans to roll out March 23. “Windows Intune builds on our history of delivering cloud services at scale, including Hotmail and Windows Update, and leverages Microsoft’s cloud experience with Azure, Dynamics CRM Online and Office 365,” Gavriella Schuster, a general […]

Next week, Apple is widely expected to introduce the next version of its popular iPad. Apple’s media invitation to the San Francisco event features an iOS calendar icon for March 2, its upper-right corner peeled away to reveal the edge of an iPad. That not only removes any questions over the focus of Apple’s announcement, […]

Microsoft offered an update for Windows Phone 7 this week, designed to pave the way for future updates throughout the rest of 2011. In an ideal world, it would have gone smoothly. But within a day of the update pushing into the Windows Phone ecosystem, users took to online forums to complain the new software […]

Microsoft is deepening Bing’s relationship with Facebook for U.S. users, extending the social network’s Liked Results to any URLs retrieved by its algorithmic search. “If your friends have publicly liked or shared any of the algorithmic search results shown on Bing, we will now surface them right below the result,” Lawrence Kim, a member of […]

Consumer Reports says it can’t recommend the Verizon iPhone 4. “The Verizon iPhone 4 has a problem that could cause the phone to drop calls, or be unable to place calls, in weak signal conditions,” the publication reported in a Feb. 25 blog posting. “The problem is similar to the one we confirmed in July […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has agreed to publish Microsoft’s submission for a new Web-privacy standard, according to the software company. “Today, the W3C has accepted and published Microsoft’s member submission for an Internet standard to help protect consumer privacy,” Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president of Internet Explorer, wrote in a Feb. 24 posting […]

Microsoft has shifted into damage-control mode over its Windows Phone 7 update, claiming in a corporate blog posting that only 10 percent of users’ smartphones have stalled because of the new software. The company will also continue to withhold the update for Samsung smartphones. “Has the update process gone perfectly? No-but few large scale software […]

Sprint has introduced its first-ever Windows Phone 7 smartphone, the HTC Arrive. The device includes a sliding QWERTY keyboard and tilt-up display, along with the inevitable handful of carrier-specific applications. More importantly for Microsoft’s aspirations in the smartphone space, the HTC Arrive is the first device to appear on a CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) […]

Apple has released a developer preview of Mac OS X Lion, the next version of its PC operating system. Lion’s new features demonstrate the growing influence of mobile on the company’s other product lines, with iPhone- and iPad-like emphasis on applications and multi-touch gestures. That’s a comparison evidently embraced by Apple. “The iPad has inspirited […]