Nicholas Kolakowski

Thanks to the difference in time zones, Apple customers in Australia had the chance to snatch up the new iPad more than a day before the next-generation tablet went on sale in the United States. It also gave repair Website iFixit the chance to tear apart an iPad purchased from a store in Melbourne. The […]

In the United States, Apple€™s new iPad supports 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) through AT&T and Verizon. But Sprint is missing from the iPad carrier lineup€”a conspicuous absence, given how it offered Apple€™s iPhone 4S from the outset. Nor is Sprint an unknown in the tablet space, given how it already offers a small selection of […]

Microsoft constructed Internet Explorer 10 €œin lockstep€ with Windows 8, according to a new corporate blog posting. Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 embraces same €œMetro€ design aesthetic that increasingly defines Microsoft€™s products from Windows 8 to the revamped Xbox dashboard. It has been optimized for both touch and keyboard-and-mouse input. In doing so, the […]

Amazon managed to ship 4.7 million Kindle Fire tablets by the end of 2011, according to a new report from research firm IDC. While that allowed the online retailer to seize an estimated 16.8 percent of the worldwide tablet market, it wasn€™t enough to seriously challenge Apple€™s iPad, whose share stands at 54.7 percent. Meanwhile, […]

Research In Motion has introduced a keyboard that connects to its PlayBook tablet via BlueTooth. Known as the BlackBerry Mini Keyboard, the $119 accessory includes 128-bit encryption and up to 30 days€™ battery life on a single charge. That announcement comes just as a new Federal Communications Commission document revealed a version of the PlayBook […]

Despite lengthening shipment times for a new iPad with a high-resolution Retina Display€”which now stand at two to three weeks€”some analysts believe Apple will have relatively little trouble fulfilling orders for the new tablet in the months ahead. “Despite widespread concerns, we believe there will be enough screens for the new iPads,” Peter Misek, an […]

Microsoft€™s March 2012 Patch Tuesday might be light on actual bulletins€”there are six€”but security researchers are nonetheless advising companies to fix the “critical” one posthaste. 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 Center blog that €œwe […]

Apple and Motorola Mobility discussed a patent licensing agreement in late 2011, according to Bloomberg. The news outlet drew its information from a document issued by the European Commission, the European Union€™s antitrust body. €œFrom the information available to the Commission, this option envisaged a cross-license possibly to the benefit of all Android OEMs but […]

iPhoto The updated version of Apple’s iPhoto app lets users edit an image with their finger, tap to apply effects and organize with a few quick swipes. Pages Apple’s Pages document-creation app is optimized for touch, and allows users to integrate images and graphics with their text. Keynote Those who use Apple’s presentation software could […]

Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo largely retained their respective shares of the U.S. search market in February, according to comScore. The research firm€™s estimates pegged Google€™s share as blipping upward from 66.2 percent in January to 66.4 percent in February. Microsoft also held relatively steady during the same period, rising only from 15.2 percent to 15.3 […]