Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft’s week centered on rumors that the company would join in a smartphone partnership with Nokia, so both companies might better combat the rising threat of Google Android and Apple’s iPhone. Research firm comScore’s latest numbers, for the three months ending December 2010, suggest that Microsoft faces a tough road ahead in regaining momentum in […]

Customers began queuing up early for the chance to get their hands on the Verizon iPhone 4. At one Verizon Wireless store in midtown Manhattan, at least according to the clipboard-bearing employees gathered out front, the line began before the doors opened at 7 a.m., and stretched down to the Old Navy store about 75 […]

Apple’s iPad 2? Never mind the lack of official unveiling-for much of the blogosphere, it seems the company’s next-generation tablet is already old news. No, the new focus, however temporary, is on the iPad 3. Many of the rumors swirling around the third-generation device seem to have started with Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, who in […]

Microsoft is testing out “personalized search experiences” on its Bing search engine, in its continuing quest to both refine its search results and gain some advantage over market rival Google. Those “experiences” include results based on previous searches. When a user searches in Bing for the same search term on multiple occasions, and clicks on […]

Hewlett-Packard’s upcoming TouchPad tablet and webOS smartphones, due for release sometime this summer, could radically alter an already-dynamic market for mobile devices. Within minutes of HP’s Feb. 9 unveiling of the three devices, pundits began discussing the company’s chances against Apple’s iPad and iPhone, which remain the market’s dominant devices alongside the growing family of […]

Apple has apparently started production of its next-generation iPad, according to a report circulating online. The company’s newest tablet will be “thinner and lighter than the first model,” unnamed sources told the Wall Street Journal Feb. 9. If the account is accurate, the next iPad will also include a front-facing camera for video conferencing, more […]

Hewlett-Packard whipped back the curtain Feb. 9 on a new family of devices it hopes will not only compete against Apple’s iPad and iPhone, but begin fulfilling new CEO Leo Apotheker’s mission of making the company “cool.” The centerpiece of HP’s San Francisco presentation, the 9.7-inch TouchPad, will hit store shelves this summer at an […]

More screens means greater efficiency. That’s the theory behind installing two of them side-by-side on your desk at work, or a Wall Street maven’s bank of flat screens in their workspace. Laptops are starting to get in on it, too, whether in the form of an upcoming Acer laptop with dual touch screens, or other […]

Microsoft saw its smartphone market share continue to decline in the three months ending December 2010, placing further pressure on its new Windows Phone 7 to succeed. According to research firm comScore, Microsoft’s share dropped from 9.9 percent in September, to 8.4 percent in December. Research In Motion’s share also dropped by 5.7 percent during […]

Amazon.com is tweaking its Kindle e-reader software with the addition of new features such as public notes and e-book page numbers that match those in the print editions. Amazon has grouped these free updates together as Kindle Software Update Version 3.1, downloadable via a page on its Website. In addition to public notes, a feature […]

Nokia’s big change-up could involve a seismic shift among its management team. That comes courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, as the rumor mill buzzes over whether the Finnish company will adopt Windows Phone 7 as an operating system for its phones. According to the Journal’s Feb. 7 report, “several senior Nokia managers are expected […]

When does a touch-screen come in handy? If manufacturers and software developers have their way, it seems, the question will soon become: When doesn’t a touch-screen come in handy? The spread of touch-screen functionality to smartphones and tablets, of course, is well-known. Apple’s iPhone helped trigger the rise of Google Android smartphones, which, in turn, […]