Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission against Motorola Mobility and Google, arguing that the latter broke an earlier promise to make patents available on fair terms. The European Commission acts as an antitrust watchdog for the European Union, and has previously demonstrated the willingness for taking companies to task over products […]

Nokia is apparently gearing up to present some lower-price smartphones at this year€™s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, according to a new Bloomberg report. While Nokia decided last year to use Microsoft€™s Windows Phone as its primary smartphone operating system, the Finnish phone maker apparently isn€™t ready to wholly abandon its old software platform, […]

Microsoft will ask Apple to approve a version of Office for the iPad, according to a Feb. 21 report in The Daily. The online publication claimed a €œbrief hands-on€ with a working prototype of the software. €œThe app€™s user interface is similar to the current OneNote app,€ it suggested, €œbut it has hints of Metro, […]

Microsoft is claiming that Google has bypassed the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users. €œWe€™ve found that Google bypasses the P3P Privacy Protection feature in IE,€ Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president of Internet Explorer, wrote in a Feb. 20 posting on the corporate Internet Explorer Blog. €œThe result is similar to the recent reports of […]

As expected, Research In Motion began pushing out its long-awaited PlayBook software upgrade Feb. 21. PlayBook OS 2.0 includes a number of features demanded by users ever since the 7-inch tablet made its debut in April 2011. These include built-in email, calendar and contacts; a variety of new apps; and social-networking integration with calendar and […]

What does Microsoft€™s Windows 8 need to conquer the tablet market? Answer: a low price, full functionality and for Google Android to bleed a little. As with every other product on the planet, tablets tend to sell in greater numbers when they require less disposable income to actually obtain. According to new estimates from research […]

Microsoft€™s biggest event of the week could also prove troublesome in coming months. On Feb. 15, Cisco Systems announced that it will appeal the European Commission€™s approval of Microsoft€™s Skype acquisition. €œWe respect the European Commission, and value Microsoft as a customer, supplier, partner and competitor,€ Marthin De Beer, senior vice president of Cisco€™s Video […]

In the wake of the Fair Labor Association€™s inspection of its manufacturing facilities in China, Foxconn has apparently opted to give its workers a pay raise. Apple requested those €œspecial voluntary audits,€ which included factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu. According to Bloomberg, worker salaries have jumped anywhere from 16 percent to 25 percent. In late […]

Microsoft€™s devotion to its €œMetro€ design aesthetic doesn€™t stop at Windows 8, Windows Phone and the most recent Xbox Dashboard: it also influenced the new Windows 8 logo. €œWe realized an evolution of our logo would better reflect our Metro style design principles,€ Sam Moreau, principal director of Microsoft€™s User Experience for Windows, wrote in […]

Apple has whipped the curtain back from Mac OS X “Mountain Lion,” the next version of its Mac operating system. Scheduled to arrive this summer, Mountain Lion incorporates a number of features that first appeared on Apple’s iOS operating system for mobile devices. Prominent among them: iCloud, which syncs user data (including mail, calendars, contacts […]