Nicholas Kolakowski

WASHINGTON-Hewlett-Packard opened its HP Software Universe conference with a high-profile presentation at the Gaylord Center here on the Potomac River, emphasizing that the company is positioned to take advantage of an economy and a technology industry in transition. With a variety of customers and partners in attendance, the conference will deep-dive into HP’s newest business […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Hewlett-Packard is announcing several new platforms during the opening day of its HP Software Universe 2010 conference, including HP Test Data Management, which accelerates application testing, and HP Business Service Management 9.0, which gives IT administrators tools to manage application performance. HP used its week of presentations at Maryland’s Gaylord Center to roll out […]

WASHINGTON, D.C-Hewlett-Packard’s newly appointed executive vice president of software & solutions, Bill Veghte, used a talk at the June 15 opening of the HP Software Universe 2010 conference to talk about the cloud, and what he saw as the fundamental questions confronting businesses in their quest to digest and manage data. Veghte spoke to an […]

Oracle is announcing Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware that combines business-process administration and collaboration tools onto a single platform. The company touts the offering’s combination of middleware platform and social networking as an industry first, although its rivals have been engaged in integrating a “social” aspect into business […]

Software-as-a-service applications will remain a focus of the enterprise for some time to come, according to a new research note from analysis firm Gartner. However, along with that adoption, a number of companies have started engaging in the same “bad practices” with the cloud that marked their use of on-premises software, particularly with regard to […]

Microsoft’s Office 2010 suite will succeed with consumers, insists a Forrester analyst, despite a general decline in consumer interest in packaged software. Office 2010 is scheduled to become available to consumers June 15, although the software has been available to business customers along with SharePoint 2010 since May 12. “On the shoulders of Office 2010 […]

Top 10 iPad Apps for the World Cup 2010 by Nicholas Kolakowski Name: ScoreCenter XLSports aficionados in general—and, this summer, World Cup fans in particular—can follow scores, stats and standings via this ESPN-created iPad app.Price: $4.99 Name: ESPN 2010 FIFA World CupThis iPhone app (compatible with the iPad) offers live scores, tournament stats and tables, […]

Apple rolled out its much-anticipated iPhone 4 this week, with company CEO Steve Jobs taking the stage June 7 at the company’s 2010 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco to show off the next-generation device. Despite the iPhone 4’s advanced features, however, Apple finds itself embroiled in an intensifying battle against Google in the […]

Microsoft used its TechEd Conference in New Orleans this week to push a vision of the company as aggressive in the smartphone and cloud spaces, encouraging the gathered developers and enterprise customers to think about creating business-centric applications for its upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform. Windows Phone 7 is intended as a total revamp of […]

Microsoft and Google’s recent interactions have analysts questioning whether the two companies are engaged in indirect battle, using issues such as security and operating systems to launch broadsides at each other. On June 1, news leaked that Google was reportedly trying to transition its employees away from Windows-based systems because of security issues, following a […]

Hewlett-Packard agreed June 10 to purchase assets owned by Phoenix Technologies, including a Linux-based operating system and client virtualization software, in a deal worth $12 million in cash. The products in question are Phoenix’s HyperSpace, HyperCore and Phoenix Flip. HyperSpace is a Linux-based operating system that allows a PC to boot rapidly, a key capability […]

Apple could potentially add T-Mobile as a carrier for its popular iPhone in the United States, according to a June 10 research note by Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu, perhaps as soon as the first half of next year. That note comes days after Apple rolled out the iPhone 4, the next in its line […]