Nicholas Kolakowski

Google officials are accusing Microsoft’s Bing of “copying” their Web-search results. “Our testing has concluded that Bing is copying Google Web-search results, and Microsoft doesn’t deny this,” Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow, wrote in a Feb. 1 e-mail to eWEEK. “At Google, we strongly believe in innovation and are proud of our search quality. We […]

Apple is ratcheting up its policy enforcement for e-book apps, stating flatly that app-makers such as Sony and Amazon must offer in-app purchasing through Apple’s online storefront if they want to make e-books purchased on other devices available on Apple’s mobile devices. That has the potential to vastly complicate plans by Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble […]

Microsoft is blaming Yahoo Mail for a “data-drain” bug affecting a small subset of Windows Phone 7 devices. For weeks, the company had been investigating complaints of smartphones devouring users’ data, even when not running applications or cruising the Web. Some users reported that this unexplained consumption totaled between 30MB and 50MB within a 24-hour […]

Microsoft and Google executives engaged in some contentious back-and-forth during a Feb. 1 roundtable discussion at the Farsight Summit, suggesting emotions are high in the wake of Google accusing Bing of copying its Web-search results. “Our testing has concluded that Bing is copying Google Web-search results, and Microsoft doesn’t deny this,” Amit Singhal, a Google […]

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 faces a steep uphill climb for consumer adoption, with the latest numbers from research firm NPD Group suggesting the smartphone platform’s market share lags behind that of Windows Mobile, its older and increasingly antiquated predecessor. For the fourth quarter of 2010, NPD Group put Windows Phone 7’s share at 2 percent […]

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak suggested in a live interview that the white iPhone 4 had encountered manufacturing problems, dovetailing with persistent rumors behind the smartphone variant’s persistent delays. In his Jan. 30 studio talk with Engadget, Wozniak said he thought the white iPhone 4 would nonetheless ship soon. “They’re going to become available,” he told […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously (or infamously, depending on your point of view) lashed out against Google Android tablets during his company’s October earnings call, denouncing them as incapable of competing with the iPad. The “painful lesson,” Jobs told analysts and media listening to that call, would come when competing tablet makers realized their tablets […]

Research In Motion’s next Curve will be touch-screen only, according to specs leaked on a BlackBerry rumor blog. The Canadian company, currently fighting to maintain its share of the smartphone market in the face of fierce competition from the Apple iPhone and Google Android, is staying firmly tight-lipped about news of upcoming products. During a […]

Microsoft’s week was all about the numbers, courtesy of its Jan. 27 quarterly earnings call. For the three months ended Dec. 31, Microsoft chalked up $19.95 billion in revenue and $6.63 billion in net income. It sold some 8 million Kinect units in the hands-free controller’s first 60 days of release, giving the company a […]

How many units will the Verizon iPhone sell? William Power, an analyst with R.W. Baird & Co., is reportedly suggesting some 25 million iPhones will be activated by the carrier in 2011, a number deduced from a 1,000-person survey. That includes not only current Verizon smartphone users switching to the iPhone, but also a sizable […]

In a twist that will likely have paper-loving bibliophiles screaming in agony, Amazon.com’s Kindle ebooks have apparently started outselling paperbacks, having already surpassed hardcovers. Amazon sold 115 Kindle books for every 100 paperbacks moved through its online storefront, the company reported Jan. 27. That apparently includes sales of books without an equivalent electronic edition, and […]

Microsoft may have adopted an “all in” strategy with regard to the cloud, but its Jan. 27 earnings call suggests the company-at least publicly-is playing a bit loose with its roadmap for client adoption of the technology. That could be a reflection of some companies’ reluctance to embrace the cloud, as opposed to an on-premises […]