Nicholas Kolakowski

To say that Nokia has a lot riding on the freshly unveiled Lumia 610 is something of an understatement. Billed as the €œmost affordable€ Lumia smartphone, the new device has one goal: sell in volume. Once a considerable force in the global smartphone arena, Nokia has seen its overall market share degraded by a flood […]

Microsoft€™s week revolved around Motorola Mobility and Office. On Feb. 22, Microsoft decided to escalate its long-running battle against Motorola (and Google, its new owner) by filing a formal complaint with the European Commission, which acts as an antitrust watchdog for the European Union. Microsoft€™s issues with Motorola extend back to late 2010, when the […]

Microsoft’s next version of Office will apparently reconcile the needs of touch-screen and conventional keyboard users with a special button that activates Touch Mode, according to Mary-Jo Foley’s All About Microsoft blog. Her unnamed contact€”one with access to the “Office 15” (that’s the code name for the next version of Office) technical preview€”offered up a […]

Apple is being sued in the Superior Court of the State of California in Santa Clara County by Proview Electronics Co. Ltd. And Proview Technology Co., both facets of Chinese technology company Shenzhen Proview Technology, which claims the tech giant engaged in deceptive practices when it bought the trademark to the term €œiPad.€ In its […]

Nokia has become the world€™s largest Windows Phone vendor, according to new data from Strategy Analytics. According to the research firm, Nokia shipped some 0.9 million Windows Phone units in the fourth quarter of 2011, good for 33 percent of that market, and surpassing the individual efforts of HTC and other manufacturers. €œGlobal smartphone shipments […]

Apple€™s iPad 3 will resemble its predecessors, right down to the circular home button and a camera hole in the top bezel. That information comes from Chinese Website Sina Weibo, which offered up a purported image of the iPad 3€™s front assembly. That image found its way onto Apple-centric blog MacRumors Feb. 21. €œThe part […]

Revamp PlayBook OS 2.0 includes a number of features demanded by users ever since the 7-inch tablet made its initial debut in April 2011. Adoption Although the PlayBook gained some early buzz ahead of its release, it subsequently faced an uphill battle for adoption in a market segment dominated by Apple’s iPad. Although the PlayBook […]

Microsoft has introduced a way to make people stand out more clearly on Bing, its search engine. A new €œLinked Pages€ feature lets users associate pages from around the Web with their name, allowing others to tell the difference between, say, five different John Does. €œWith Linked Pages, we€™re letting you link Websites related to […]

Research In Motion€™s BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 is a fairly extensive upgrade to the PlayBook€™s software, but the resulting user experience isn€™t radically different from the one offered in the tablet€™s original version. Certainly PlayBook OS 2.0 includes a number of features demanded by users ever since the 7-inch tablet made its debut in April […]

Apple and Chinese technology firm Shenzhen Proview Technology are battling in Chinese court over the €œiPad€ trademark. Shenzhen Proview Technology argues that, while Apple indeed purchased that trademark from its Taiwanese affiliate in 2009, those rights are invalid on the Chinese mainland. The company, which recently filed for bankruptcy, has asked the court to forbid […]