Nicholas Kolakowski

Amazon.com’s Kindle will be available at Best Buy starting this fall, giving the online retailer an offline channel for its popular e-reader. Barnes & Noble’s Nook, perhaps the Kindle’s highest-profile competitor, is already available at Best Buy in addition to the bookseller’s bricks-and-mortar locations. The Kindle will also retail at Staples sometime in the fall […]

Oracle is unveiling Oracle GoldenGate 11g and Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition 11g, new additions to its Oracle Fusion Middleware line. Oracle GoldenGate 11g offers real-time data integration for mission-critical systems, while Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition 11g allows for efficient loading and transformation of data within the data-warehouse context. Oracle is also releasing Oracle […]

Dell and LogMeIn are the targets of an intellectual-property lawsuit by Canadian firm 01 Communique Laboratory, which asserts the two companies infringed on its patent for technology related to a private communication portal. The lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division. The products at issue include LogMeIn Free, […]

Android, iPhone, BlackBerry Apps for Post-Labor Day Productivity by Nicholas Kolakowski Name: Nubi DoPlatform: iPhone Summers over, and that means its back to the grind. This task manager allows you to set up a monthly task calendar, import and export data from Google Docs spreadsheets, assign priorities and due dates, and leave yourself text notes. […]

Cisco and Citrix unveiled a prepackaged solution that combines the former’s networking technology with the latter’s desktop virtualization software, in theory creating a cost-effective way for businesses to deploy high-definition virtual desktops and applications. With businesses trending towards a decentralized IT model, and with employees and their varied devices spread over a wide geographical area, […]

Apple iPhone 4 purchases have been hindered by the one-two combination of antenna problems and the company’s reliance on AT&T as an exclusive carrier, according to a new survey by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. The survey included 258 cell phone users in Minneapolis. Despite the study’s small sample size and limited geographic location, Munster […]

Apple could sell 28 million iPads in 2011, perhaps affecting sales of lower end PCs, according to a new research note from UBS Investment Research. “Sales of traditional notebooks appear to be feeling pressure from the iPad, causing a scramble by vendors to launch iPad-like tablets,” UBS Investment Research analyst Maynard Um wrote in that […]

Apple released its iOS 4.1 update for mobile devices Sept. 8. In addition to fixing a handful of software bugs, the upgrade bakes the company’s new Game Center, iTunes TV show rentals and Ping social networking service into the iPhone and the second-, third- and fourth-generation iPod Touch. The update preserves standard-issue iOS 4 features […]

Salesforce.com has unveiled Chatter Mobile, a way for business users to monitor Chatter social-networking updates via their Apple, Google or BlackBerry device. The Chatter platform, with its Facebook-like stream of user posts and comments, represents Salesforce’s bet that businesses will gravitate more and more toward social networks as tools of collaboration and efficiency. Chatter Mobile […]

Google Android and Windows Phone will see their market share increase over the next few years, according to a new research note from IDC, while other smartphone platforms such as Apple’s iOS and BlackBerry OS face declines. Meanwhile, the research firm added, the overall market for smartphones is due to increase 24.5 percent in 2011, […]

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, one of the first Android-powered tablets to challenge the Apple iPad, will be priced at $200. Or it could be $400. Or even a cool $1,000, if you choose to buy the carrier-unlocked version. In other words, pricing information for the device has begun to leak online-much of it contradictory. The Wall […]

Microsoft will release a public beta of its Small Business Server “7” by the end of the month, according to the company. That platform is meant to complement Microsoft’s two upcoming servers, code-named Vail and Aurora, which were released in preview-build form in August. Like Vail and Aurora, Small Business Server “7” will likely receive […]