Nicholas Kolakowski

Nicholas Kolakowski is a staff editor at eWEEK, covering Microsoft and other companies in the enterprise space, as well as evolving technology such as tablet PCs. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Playboy, WebMD, AARP the Magazine, AutoWeek, Washington City Paper, Trader Monthly, and Private Air. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Windows Tablets

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...

Whats In a Name?

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...

Microsoft Targets Zeus Botnets With Financial Services Partners

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...

Microsoft, Nokia Developing Windows Phone AppCampus

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...

Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone Selling for $99

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...

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With today’s profusion of enterprise applications and data sources, companies struggle to integrate it all. I spoke with Steve Lucas, CEO of Boomi about...

Bandwidth Maestro Orchestrates Across Communication Systems

The 2023 Edition of Enterprise Connect kicks off this week in Orlando, Fl. This is the industry’s largest telecom and networking event and while...

Cognos vs. Power BI: 2023 Data Platform Comparison

IBM Cognos Analytics and Microsoft Power BI are two of the top business intelligence (BI) and data analytics software. Both of these applications are...

Datadog vs Splunk: 2023 Software Comparison

Datadog and Splunk both cover a lot of ground as application performance monitoring (APM) tools. Both offer broad monitoring and in-depth data analytics. Buyers...