Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft may promote Windows 7 as an essential element of the next-generation office, but a new research note from Gartner suggests that upgrading from Windows XP and Windows 2000 could create a burden on companies’ IT budgets. “Corporate IT departments typically prefer to migrate PC operating systems (OSs) via hardware attrition, which means bringing in […]

Google may have generated a lot of publicity with its Aug. 25 announcement of an application that makes phone calls through Gmail, but the company is staying mum about any international expansion of the upcoming U.S.-centric service. “We don’t have anything to announce about an international rollout today,” a Google spokesperson told eWEEK Aug. 26, […]

Netflix is offering a video-streaming app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, months after the rental company debuted one for the iPad. While the app allows Netflix subscribers to feed unlimited television shows and movies to their device, courtesy of the “Instant Queue” feature, AT&T’s recent decision to cut back on its unlimited data plans […]

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 is now generally available, with feature enhancements to areas such as the management user interface. The Service Pack follows the June release of the Exchange SP1 beta, which Microsoft claims was downloaded by over 500,000 Technology Adoption Program customers. Exchange Server 2010 SP1 is available for download. Based […]

Apple has sent invitations to media for a Sept. 1 event in San Francisco. According to a new online report, the company could use its September event to debut the new “iTV,” along with other refreshed products. That report comes from Bloomberg, which also suggested that Apple is negotiating with content providers, including CBS and […]

Google is rolling out a service that makes phone calls through Gmail. Calls to the United States and Canada will be free through at least January 2011, with international calls ranging between 2 cents and nearly $5 a minute. That presents a challenge not only to Google’s e-mail competitors, but also Skype. “We’re rolling out […]

Amazon.com is shipping its latest-generation Kindle to customers Aug. 25, two days ahead of the previously announced release date. In the month since its unveiling, according to the online retailer, the new device is on pace to outsell its predecessors. Although Amazon habitually refuses to offer shipment data related to its e-reader franchise, if those […]

Samsung is offering a quick glimpse of its upcoming Galaxy Tab tablet PC, via a 20-second promo clip on a corporate Website. That clip reveals certain key details about the device, which Samsung doubtlessly hopes will carve a bit of the burgeoning tablet PC market away from the Apple iPad. In addition to a 7-inch […]

Google’s mobile application will now push notifications from Gmail and Google Calendar to the Apple iPhone, with pop-up calendar reminders appearing on the user’s homescreen and a Gmail icon badge announcing new e-mail. The Google for iPhone application is available in Apple’s App Store. “We’ve also added spiffy features to get you information faster-when looking […]

Yahoo’s expected transfer of its backend search to Bing is completed, according to a corporate blog posting from Microsoft. Under an agreement signed in the summer of 2009, Yahoo will take over worldwide salesforce duties for both companies’ search advertisers, while Bing powers Yahoo’s backend search. “Today I am happy to share that Bing is […]

Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace will launch sometime in early October, suggesting that manufacturers will begin to roll out Windows Phone 7 devices ahead of the holiday season. In an Aug. 23 blog post, a Microsoft executive announced that final Windows Phone 7 developer tools would be released Sept. 16. “All developers will have equal opportunity […]

Could a touch-screen iMac appear in the near future? That’s the question drifting around the blogosphere, after Patently Apple uncovered an Apple patent showing a PC capable of shifting between touch-screen and traditional keyboard-and-mouse input. The patent’s accompanying diagrams show an iMac-like PC in profile, with the screen capable of hinging upwards to activate touch-enabled […]