Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple has finally decided what to do with its $100 billion cash reserve. During a call with financial analysts, company executives detailed a new stock repurchasing and dividend program that will reward shareholders. This plan kicks off July 1, with a quarterly dividend payment scheduled for the company€™s fiscal fourth quarter of 2012. After that, […]

Microsoft is asking customers to deploy a patch for a “critical” bulletin from last week€™s Patch Tuesday, after the public appearance of proof-of-concept code that apparently targets the vulnerability. That critical bulletin, MS12-020 (Windows) addresses an issue in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). While Microsoft insisted in a March 13 posting on the Microsoft Security Response […]

Dell wants to pull an Apple in the tablet market. €œWe have a road map for tablets that we haven€™t announced yet,€ Dell chief commercial officer Steve Felice told Reuters March 16. €œWe don€™t think that this market is closed off in any way.€ Those announcements will apparently come in the second half of 2012, […]

Microsoft had a fairly quiet week, marked by Patch Tuesday and additional indications that Windows 8 tablets are in development. While Microsoft’s March 2012 Patch Tuesday was light on actual bulletins€”with six in total€”security researchers nonetheless advised companies to fix the only “critical” one as fast as possible. That critical bulletin, MS12-020 (Windows), addresses an […]

Sales of Apple€™s new iPad could be off to a €œstrong start,€ according to one analyst. €œAt the flagship 5th Avenue store in NYC, we observed 750 people in-line at 8AM, the time when the 3rd gen iPads went on sale,€ Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, wrote in a co-authored March 16 research […]

Google is under investigation by regulators in both the United States and European Union, according to sources speaking to The Wall Street Journal March 16. Specifically, those regulators are investigating how Google sidestepped privacy settings of the Safari Web browser. €œIt€™s important to remember that we didn€™t anticipate this would happen,€ a Google spokesperson told […]

New iPad Apple declined to give the new iPad an official name along the lines of “iPad 3” or “iPad HD” (two rumored monikers). In broad strokes, the device greatly resembles its predecessor, the iPad 2. New Camera The new iPad features a rear-facing 5-megapixel camera capable of shooting 1080p video. New Screen The latest […]

Google is planning a radical upgrade of its search engine in the coming months, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. That March 14 report suggested that, once the changes are complete, Google will offer €œmore facts and direct answers at the top of the search-results page€ in addition to the usual […]

Nokia is developing a tablet presumably running Windows 8, according to comments by company design chief Marko Ahtisaari. Ahtisaari told the Finnish magazine Kauppalehti Optio that €œwe are working€ on a tablet, according to Reuters. He also suggested he spends a third of his time on the unnamed device. This isn€™t the first time similar […]

New iPad Front The latest iPad features a high-resolution Retina Display (2048 by 1536 pixels). Overall, though, the front of the device greatly resembles that of previous versions. New iPad Front The latest iPad features a high-resolution Retina Display (2048 by 1536 pixels). Overall, though, the front of the device greatly resembles that of previous […]