Nicholas Kolakowski

Mozilla has begun early work on Firefox 4, according to an organization executive who presented the upcoming browser version’s product plan May 10. “Usually software producers don’t present these sorts of plans in public until they’re finalized, but Mozilla is a little different,” Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s director of Firefox, wrote in a May 10 posting […]

Apple is reacting to new data placing its iPhone third in the U.S. smartphone market, behind Google Android and BlackBerry phones. Previous numbers put the iPhone in second place, contributing to the perception that the iPhone had become the all-conquering Genghis Khan of the smartphone market. In a research note released May 10, NPD Group […]

Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 Offer New Tools for Businesses by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title Office 2010 applications, including Excel (seen here), utilize not only the Ribbon to access commands, but also Microsoft Office Backstage, which centralizes tasks such as share, save, print and publish. No Title Office 2010 offers customizable themes and graphic layouts, […]

Jet-setting iPad buyers beware: Where you purchase the device could determine how much cold, hard cash you plunk down for the privilege. Thanks to those pesky little things called local taxes, the iPad’s upfront sticker cost ends up being higher in some countries than in others-something with the potential to throw, say, a British Apple-phile […]

Chalk this one up under the category of “inevitable:” Borders Group announced that it would release its own e-reader, the Kobo, on June 17. That brings the bookseller into an e-reader market already occupied by its rivals Amazon.com, which sells the Kindle, and Barnes & Noble, which offers the Nook. Borders, likely recognizing the crowded […]

Federal grants totaling $48.2 million will help New York primary care providers adopt electronic health records. That money will filter to a pair of regional extension centers, the New York eHealth Collaborative and NYC REACH (New York City Regional Electronic Adoption Center for Health), which will assist those primary care providers in carrying out the […]

10 Essential Apple iPad Productivity Apps for IT Pros by Nicholas Kolakowski Name: DropboxPrice: FreeThis app allows users to share files via e-mail, text message, or by copy and pasting links; files can also be exported to other iPad apps, or downloaded for offline viewing. It does require a Dropbox account. Name: SimplenotePrice: FreeThis app […]

Microsoft’s week was all about the social: on May 5, the company announced that its Kin One and Kin Two phones would be available for preorder starting May 6, with an in-store rollout to follow on May 13. The phones are geared toward a younger demographic-“the sharing generation,” in the words of Microsoft’s Entertainment & […]

Microsoft will launch Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 May 12, offering the platforms to businesses roughly a month before consumers. With that release, Microsoft hopes to maintain its dominant market share in the productivity segment despite upcoming challenges from cloud-based applications such as Google Apps. Microsoft originally released the beta versions of Office 2010, SharePoint […]

Nokia launched the next round in its lengthy legal battle against Apple May 7, with a new lawsuit alleging that Apple’s iPad and iPhone infringe on five of its patents. This newest action suggests that the two companies will remain locked in acrimony for some time to come, short of an out-of-court settlement or similar […]

Apple announced on May 7 that the iPad will be available May 28 in nine international markets: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The iPad’s early sales success in the United States had exceeded Apple’s supply pipeline, forcing the delay in the international rollout to late May. A statement […]

Microsoft and Yahoo aim to have major aspects of their search-and-advertising deal in place by end-year holidays 2010, according to official blog postings by both companies, including porting Yahoo’s U.S. advertisers and publishers onto Microsoft’s AdCenter platform. Under the terms of the companies’ agreement, Bing will power backend search for Yahoo’s online properties, while Yahoo […]