Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple will apparently forgo including its high-definition Retina Display in the iPad 2, according to an IDC analyst. Instead, the iPad 3 will be the company’s first tablet capable of 2048 x 1536 resolution. “I think the DigiTimes story probably got the resolution right, but the iPad version wrong,” IDC research manager Tom Mainelli reportedly […]

While Apple’s next-generation iPad seems to be drawing the lion’s share of speculation recently, rumors are also emerging about the company’s next iPhone. Over the weekend, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News reported that Apple had selected a handful of new companies as component builders for the iPhone 5, including Foxconn Electronics and Foxlink. By shifting […]

More jailbreaks of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 are apparently underway. Windows Phone developer Julien Schapman is reportedly refining a way to unlock Windows Phone 7 smartphones so they can download applications outside of Microsoft’s applications Marketplace. “My unlock method is similar to that of ChevronWP7 in the way they both use a fake registration sever, […]

Sony’s Bloggie Touch, billed as a “mobile HD snap camera,” arrived on store shelves in November 2010. By January, the electronics giant had announced a three-dimensional version of the handheld device. The latter uses two lenses for recording high-definition 3-D video and still images, and it can also record in 2-D. The evolution of Sony’s […]

Microsoft’s week centered on the cloud, with the worldwide launch of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online platform-the company’s hope for blunting similar competition from Oracle and Salesforce.com. A Jan. 17 statement by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer emphasized the cloud platform’s “familiar user experience, enabling greater collaboration, streamlining of processes and access to real-time data.” The […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs elected to take a leave of absence from his company Jan. 17, reportedly for health reasons. Three days later, Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced he would hand over the reins to the company’s co-founder Larry Page. Both those seismic events have pundits and analysts questioning the future of the two companies. […]

Apple’s next-generation iPad will feature a higher-resolution screen, according to a new burst of rumors. That adds to the general drum-roll of rumor and speculation surrounding the successor to the company’s bestselling tablet. Citing unnamed sources from “upstream component makers,” the publication DigiTimes suggested Jan. 20 that the “iPad 2” will boast a resolution of […]

Microsoft claims to have discovered the source of a mysterious “data drain” on Windows Phone 7 handsets: an unnamed third-party application configured to download unexpectedly large amounts of data. Microsoft has contacted “the third party to assist them in making the necessary fixes,” a company spokesperson told the BBC Jan. 20, also indicating that a […]

Microsoft’s cloud strategy reached another stage Jan. 17 with the announcement of a worldwide launch date for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, the cloud version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. Both on-premises and cloud-based versions of the platform will be available in 40 markets and 41 languages starting Feb. 28. A Jan. 17 statement by Microsoft […]

Research In Motion is positioning its upcoming PlayBook tablet as mostly a WiFi device, walking a delicate line between touting the device’s BlackBerry tethering as a feature and trying to appeal to those who own other smartphones. “There’s a misperception in the role of tethering,” Ryan Bidan, a senior product manager at RIM, explained during […]

Microsoft’s week saw one major executive departure and several small battles with rivals in the cloud and smartphone space, both of which could be harbingers of larger things to come. On Jan. 10, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a companywide e-mail to the effect that Bob Muglia, president of the company’s Server and Tools Business, […]

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 smartphone is proving an early disappointment, at least according to one LG Electronics executive. “From an industry perspective we had a high expectation, but from a consumer point of view the visibility is less than we expected,” James Choi, a marketing strategy and planning team director for LG Electronics, apparently told […]