Nicholas Kolakowski

When Apple’s 2010 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicks off June 7, the expectation from many company-watchers is that CEO Steve Jobs will debut the next version of the iPhone. While that would keep in Apple’s tradition of rolling out the latest update to its bestselling smartphone each summer, the bigger question is whether Apple will […]

Microsoft’s week climaxed with CEO Steve Ballmer taking the stage at the D8 conference June 3 to admit that the company had made certain crucial mistakes in the smartphone space. At the same time, Ballmer also suggested that Microsoft was well-positioned to take advantage of the mobile market, along with the cloud and tablet spaces-a […]

Microsoft could claim substantial market share from Apple in the growing tablet PC arena, but will need to both engage its manufacturing partners and create software that allows a tablet to interact with products such as the Xbox, according to a research report produced by analyst firm Forrester. Apple currently dominates the consumer tablet PC […]

Bing proved to be the little search engine that could, at least for the first year of its existence. In summer 2009, many of the tech industry’s higher-ups expressed little public hope that Bing-originally code-named Kumo-could endure for long in the search engine arena dominated by Google. At its outset, Bing’s competitive differentiator from its […]

Microsoft Bing Search Engine Marks First Anniversary by Nicholas Kolakowski Search Screen When Microsoft launched Bing on June 1, 2009, its immediate differentiator from Google was the highly colorful search screen. Homescreen Tabs Bing also tried to differentiate itself from the start with homescreen tabs for very specific search categories, such as Videos, Shopping, News, […]

Microsoft settled an intellectual property lawsuit with startup BackWeb on June 3, with the latter company agreeing to license its patents to the software giant. BackWeb, which specializes in communications software technology, alleged in 2009 that Microsoft had infringed on four of its patents. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. BackWeb’s original lawsuit […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used the platform of the D8 Conference on June 3 to acknowledge his company’s missteps in the smartphone space, as well as the strength of competitors such as Apple’s iPhone and the ever-increasing number of Android-powered devices. A full blow-by-blow of that conversation can be found on this Website, although it […]

Dell and Practice Fusion plan on delivering electronic medical record technology to smaller medical practices around the country, as part of a packaged solution that includes both hardware and cloud-based applications, according to a June 3 announcement by both companies. As part of the package, Dell will supply broadband hardware, desktop and laptop computers, scanners, […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, accompanied by Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, took the stage at the D8 Conference on June 3 to discuss hot topics such as smartphones, the cloud and tablet PCs. Much of the conversation centered on Microsoft’s performance in the consumer market, where it finds itself locked in fierce competition against makers […]

Windows XP should be eliminated from office PCs by the end of 2012, research company Gartner advised in a report, as ISVs and application builders will be cutting off their support for the aging operating system. The report recommended that organizations planning on a Windows 7 transition begin planning and testing this year. “In various […]

Microsoft officials are highlighting the security of Windows in response to Google’s reported plans to transition its employees away from Windows-based systems because of security issues. Google executives are said to have pushed the search engine giant’s 20,000 employees to switch to either Macs or Linux-based machines, following a January security breach that took advantage […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs claimed during the D8 Conference that the iPhone, despite being released in 2007, had its origins in a rough prototype for the iPad, which reached the market in April. “I had this idea about having a glass display, a multitouch display,” Jobs told The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg during the […]