Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft has unveiled Hyper-V Cloud, a series of tools for corporations interested in building and deploying a private cloud. This represents yet another facet of the company’s “all in” cloud strategy, in which it seeks to purvey any number of online products and services to enterprises looking to shift their IT away from on-premises. Microsoft’s […]

17 Microsoft Executives Determining the Companys Future by Nicholas Kolakowski Name: Steve BallmerTitle: CEO Most Wall Street analysts seem to love Ballmer for Microsoft’s ability to deliver high revenues and profits, but Microsoft’s board of directors also recently declined to fulfill his full financial award for the year—thanks in part to the Kin phone fiasco, […]

Microsoft’s week centered on its newest attempt to dominate the living room: Kinect, the hands-free controller for the Xbox 360, hit store shelves Nov. 4, and early reports indicate robust sales. Based on that early retail movement, along with preorders and audience awareness, Microsoft raised its estimate of Kinect sales for the quarter from 3 […]

Is Windows Phone 7 slated to become the next big enterprise device? That becomes a more pressing question following news that Dell plans on dumping Research In Motion’s BlackBerry from its corporate offices, in favor of Windows Phone 7 devices manufactured by the company. Within hours of that news leaking online, RIM responded with some […]

Microsoft is preparing to deliver a cut-and-paste feature for Windows Phone 7 within the next few weeks, according to an executive blog posting. “Critics have commented on the lack of specific features like copy & paste and lack of 100s of thousands of new applications,” Arpan Shah, Microsoft’s director for SharePoint, wrote in a Nov. […]

Apple’s iPhone is under consideration as a BlackBerry alternative by Bank of America and Citigroup, according to a Nov. 5 Bloomberg report. Unnamed sources suggested that both companies are testing the iPhone’s software security and that Android is also under consideration as a corporate mobile platform. Both banking groups were reluctant to comment on any […]

Samsung predicts it will sell more than 1 million Galaxy Tab units and 20 million Galaxy S smartphones by the end of 2010, according to online reports. In addition, the company plans to introduce additional tablet form factors into the marketplace, seeking to press its rivalry with the Apple iPad while blunting competition from other […]

Apple is moving to fix display issues with its next-generation MacBook Air, reportedly via a software update. An unknown subset of users is reporting their laptops’ screens flickering or flashing lines of color. According to screenshots posted Nov. 4 on the blog Boy Genius Report, seemingly from Apple’s internal support system: “Apple is aware of […]

Microsoft is unveiling the final names and pricing for its new generation of Small Business Servers, which step away from the traditional small business server model to embrace virtualization and cloud features. “Since we announced the availability of the beta version of Windows Small Business Server code-name Aurora and Windows Small Business Server -7,’ both […]

Space shuttle Discovery has encountered yet another obstacle on the way to its final mission: storms. Inclement weather led NASA’s mission controllers to scrub Discovery’s Nov. 4 launch. “If it looked like there was any possible chance of giving it a shot, then I think we would have,” Pete Nickolenko, assistant launch director, told the […]

Microsoft and LG Electronics plan to offer 10 free mobile applications to owners of LG-built Windows Phone 7 smartphones. LG will offer 10 new apps every 60 days, via the Application Store preinstalled on its devices. “When we pledged early this year to support Microsoft’s smartphone strategy, we knew we were making a decision that […]

Apple plans to increase the length of its iTunes music previews from 30 to 90 seconds for songs longer than 2 minutes 30 seconds, according to a new online report. “We are pleased to let you know we are preparing to increase the length of music previews from 30 seconds to 90 seconds on the […]