Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple iPad panel shipments will top 65 million units in 2011, estimates DigiTimes. However, another analyst suggests that the iPad’s continuing success could start to affect the market for other Apple products, notably the Mac and iPhone. DigiTimes’ 65-million-units figure comes from the combined estimates for Apple’s iPad parts suppliers, including LG Display, Samsung and […]

Rumors surrounding Apple’s next-generation iPad continue, with the newest ones suggesting the device-yet to be officially unveiled-will feature a USB port. “Talked with a colleague while working with some ODM [original design manufacturer] vendors connected with Apple,” Eldar Murtazin, editor-in-chief of the Mobile Review blog, wrote in a Dec. 28 Tweet reprinted on Apple Insider. […]

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s firm Interval Licensing LLC has decided to re-launch a patent-infringement lawsuit against some of country’s biggest tech companies, including Apple and Google. That comes despite the original lawsuit’s dismissal earlier in December. In the wake of that dismissal, Judge Marsha J. Pechman, of the U.S. District Court for the Western District […]

Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Android Created 2010 Tablet PC Market by Nicholas Kolakowski Apple iPad Apples iPad helped kickstart the consumer tablet PC market, eventually reaching sales of roughly 1 million units per month. The 9.7-inch device runs Apples proprietary iOS. Google Android Tablets As the iPad saw success, Apples competitors began to plan […]

Is Amazon.com’s Kindle holding off a sales threat from Apple’s iPad? That became the question after the online retailer issued a Dec. 27 press release, boasting that the Kindle had become “the bestselling product in Amazon’s history.” In order to reach that milestone, the e-reader device apparently had to outsell the seventh Harry Potter book. […]

Apple’s iPad faces a host of competitors in 2011, with Microsoft reportedly readying several Windows-based tablets for debut at January’s Consumer Electronics Show and other manufacturers preparing their own first- or second-generation devices. For the moment, however, it seems that the iPad’s sales record remained strong through the year-end shopping season, with some analysts taking […]

Samsung, apparently not content to challenge the iPad with the Samsung Galaxy Tab or the iPhone with its Galaxy S line of smartphones, will use January’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to unveil yet another Apple competitior: the Galaxy Player, a touchscreen multimedia device meant to take the iPod Touch head-on in the consumer […]

In many ways, 2010 was the year of the tablet PC. Tablet PCs have been around for some time, of course, primarily used in niche industries such as health care. But thanks to the Apple iPad and a host of competitors, the past 12 months have transformed those touch-screen devices into a must-have consumer item, […]

“We want to capitalize on our first-mover advantage,” Apple COO Tim Cook told analysts and media during an April 20 earnings call, discussing his company’s decision to “aggressively” price its tablet PC. That comment came soon after the iPad’s release, but it also neatly summarized Apple’s broader strategy throughout 2010: Unlike tech companies such as […]

iPad, iPhone 4, MacBook Air, Mobility Focus Marked Apple’s 2010 by Nicholas Kolakowski Apple iPad Following months of speculation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad during a high-profile Jan. 27 presentation in San Francisco. A New Device Category Within weeks of its April release, the iPad had proven a hit with consumers. In the […]

Microsoft’s week was filled with rumors about its announcements at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show. On Dec. 21, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft would use the show to debut a version of Windows that leverages ARM Holdings technology. ARM chip designs currently dominate much of the mobile market, particularly in smartphones. That report, citing unnamed sources […]

Microsoft found itself at the center of a number of intellectual-property battles throughout 2010, as lawsuit fever seemed to grip the tech industry as a whole. Despite the intercompany partnerships seemingly signed on a weekly basis, the rapid pace of innovation in markets such as smartphones, and the resulting billions in potential profits, led any […]