Nicholas Kolakowski

Oracle is rolling out part of its Product Value Chain suite called Agile Customer Needs Management, a “collaborative, open-innovation” software platform that allows customers to capture and prioritize product ideas, product requirements and customer feedback from a variety of internal and external sources. In theory, this allows product teams to find the right ideas and […]

Microsoft has been offering to pay developers of popular iPhone applications to port their wares to the upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform, according to reports. Scheduled for release on a variety of devices later in 2010, Windows Phone 7 is Microsoft’s attempt to make up for the ground it has lost the smartphone arena to […]

From a bottom-line perspective, Microsoft’s most important announcement this week was its worldwide release of Office 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010. Although the productivity software has been available to businesses since May-and the beta of Office 2010 long before that-this marks the first time that consumers will have access to the product. […]

It was a week of good news and bad news for Apple. The good news: some 600,000 customers pre-ordered its next-generation smartphone, the iPhone 4, on June 15. The bad news: that massive demand on the phone’s first day of pre-order availability managed to crash both Apple’s and AT&T’s ordering systems. The iPhone 4 is […]

This week saw Facebook push back against lingering concerns over how it uses member data, using resources such as its corporate blog to insist that individual privacy remains its utmost concern. While the social-networking site’s revenues and membership have only increased over the past year, a rising chorus of privacy groups and individual users has […]

Who knew that providing a place for uploading vacation photos and YouTube links could be so profitable? Facebook apparently earned as much as $800 million in 2009, according to two unnamed sources quoted by Reuters. Despite pressure from outside investors to launch an IPO, the social-networking site has remained privately held. That $800 million represents […]

Verizon Wireless has posted an image and a few details of the Motorola Droid X, its successor to 2009’s popular Motorola Droid smartphone. Executives from Verizon, Motorola and Google will introduce “the next generation of Droid” in New York on June 23, according to an invitation sent to eWEEK, but it remains unclear whether the […]

The rise of consumer tablet PCs presents a potential threat to Microsoft, should manufacturers begin to put streamlined mobile operating systems, such as the Palm WebOS or Android, on the devices instead of Windows. However, according to one analyst, Microsoft has a history of responding well to such industrywide shifts and may very well come […]

Apple and AT&T found themselves hit by unexpected demand for the iPhone 4, which promptly sold 600,000 units after going on preorder June 15. That effectively crashed both companies’ ordering systems; reports circulated of AT&T employees were forced to jot customers’ details on paper after store computers melted down, and visitors to both AT&T’s and […]

Apple is introducing a free Apple Store app that lets customers purchase Apple products via their iPhone or iPod Touch, adding yet another sales channel for the company’s heightened push into the mobile space. The Apple Store app allows iPhone or iPod users to find the nearest Apple retail store, make reservations for appointments or […]

For any company, a major release like Office 2010 would be considered its dominant news of the week. However, Microsoft’s consumer rollout of the productivity suite June 15 seems somewhat eclipsed by the announcements coming from the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, where the company is revealing its new Xbox-related products. That may be […]

Microsoft is announcing the worldwide availability of Office 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010. While expectations for the software’s success runs high, Office 2010 enters a market under rapid change due to cloud-based productivity apps such as Google Docs. The worldwide launch of Office 2010 follows the software’s release to business consumers, along […]