Nicholas Kolakowski

Windows Tablets Long before Apple launched the iPad, or Microsoft considered porting Windows 8 onto tablets, various OEMs loaded Windows XP onto the tablet form factor. Windows 8 Anyone who hasn’t tried Windows 8 might be surprised by the upcoming operating system’s deviations from the established norm, as exemplified by a start screen composed of […]

Whats In a Name? Given the speed of technological innovation, it’s easy to forget sometimes that “iOS” is a relatively recent term. Until June 2010, Apple referred to its mobile operating system as “iPhone OS.” Best Seller In 2011, Apple sold more iOS devices (156 million) than all the Macs it had sold in 28 […]

Microsoft€™s Digital Crimes Unit and a handful of financial-services partners undertook a coordinated action against Zeus botnets March 23, shutting down command-and-control servers in Pennsylvania and Illinois. Microsoft€™s partners in the operation included the Financial Services-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) and NACHA-The Electronic Payments Association, along with Kyrus Tech Inc. U.S. Marshals escorted Microsoft […]

Microsoft and Nokia are planning to invest a combined $24 million in a mobile-application €œuniversity€ for developers. This €œAppCampus€ program, based out of Aalto University in Finland, will launch in May 2012. The program will offer facilities, coaching services and access to €œacademic and business networks,€ according to Microsoft€™s March 26 press release. AppCampus will […]

AT&T will sell Nokia€™s high-end Lumia 900 smartphone for $99.99 with a two-year contract in the United States. The device, which boasts Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) and a 4.3-inch ClearBlack active-matrix organic LED (AMOLED) display, will go on sale exclusively from the carrier April 8. Other features of the smartphone include support for AT&T€™s 4G […]

Microsoft€™s big event of the week was Convergence 2012, in which it pumped its latest software and cloud-based services for businesses. By the end of 2012, Microsoft plans to update a sizable portion of its business-solution portfolio. These updates include enabling Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2012 and Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 for Windows Azure. Microsoft is […]

Apple€™s iPhone has apparently surpassed Research In Motion€™s BlackBerry as the top smartphone in Canada, according to data assembled by Bloomberg and research firm IDC. What adds insult to injury is that RIM is based in Ontario, meaning Apple is beating the home team. Those groups posit that, in 2011, RIM managed to ship 2.08 […]

Research In Motion will debut a prototype of its upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphone in May, with the intention of giving applications developers a crucial first look at the operating system. That news comes from The Wall Street Journal, which quoted Alec Saunders, RIM€™s vice president for developer relations and ecosystem development, as saying the device […]

Facebook, perhaps anxious to avoid public controversy as it prepares for a much-publicized initial public offering, is moving to squelch a widely reported practice of employers asking job applicants for their Facebook passwords. €œIf you are a Facebook user, you should never have to share your password, let anyone access your account, or do anything […]

Now that the new iPad is on store shelves across the country, attention is inevitably turning to the next Apple product waiting in the wings: the so-called iPhone 5. Long a target of rampant speculation, despite a near-total lack of verifiable details, that next-generation device has been tagged iPhone 5 by pundits and media. Whether […]