Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple sold around 450,000 iPads through April 8, CEO Steve Jobs said during a presentation at the company’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters, along with some 600,000 iBooks downloaded and 3.5 million apps. Apple had previously announced that the multitouch tablet device had sold 300,000 units by midnight on April 3, its first day of general release. […]

NEW YORK-Salesforce.com announced the expansion of what officials call “the next cloud computing paradigm” with a new round of private beta testing for its Salesforce Chatter platform, which allows Facebook-style social collaboration among enterprise workers. In an April 8 press conference here, the company also heralded the launch of AppExchange 2, the next generation of […]

NEW YORK-Salesforce.com’s upcoming Salesforce Chatter, offering a Facebook-like social collaboration platform for enterprise workers, represents a substantial bet on the company’s part that its customers-and the enterprise in general-will want to embrace cloud-based enterprise tools that behave like the social-networking applications workers use to keep up with friends and family in their spare time. Taking […]

Apple announced during an April 8 presentation at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters that its next-generation iPhone OS 4 would include several radical changes to the traditional iPhone interface, including a new ability to multitask and an advertising platform, dubbed “iAd,” which will allow developers to deliver mobile advertisements within apps themselves. Apple CEO Steve Jobs […]

Apple iPad Is Ready for Its Closeup by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title The iPad’s glossy 9.7-inch touch screen provides 1024 by 768 pixel resolution. The device is powered by a custom 1GHz A4 processor. No Title Apple is choosing to highlight the iPad’s environmental sustainability, including arsenic-free display glass, mercury-free LCD display, and a recyclable […]

10 iPad Apps That Let You Work Anywhere by Nicholas Kolakowski Name: PagesCost: $9.99A word-processing app specially modified for the iPad, Pages allows users to leverage 16 predesigned templates (such as flyers, letters, reports, etc.), and add tables and other elements via touch. Completed documents can be exported to Pages 09, Microsoft Word or PDF […]

Apple’s iPad sold 300,000 units by midnight April 3, including preorders, on its first day of general release: enough to ensure the device as a commercial hit, at least in the short-term. In a larger way, though, those sales numbers represent not so much a victory for Apple but a sign that a market indeed […]

Microsoft has released a version of its Microsoft Dynamics CRM customized for nonprofits and non-governmental organizations. Although the software platform has traditionally focused on business management, additional tools in this edition include donation and pledge management, basic membership management, basic volunteer tracking, support for online payment solutions and campaign management. “Nonprofits and NGOs are always […]

Microsoft plans on releasing the beta of its Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 in June, bringing a number of changes to user interface, integrated archiving and other areas. “SP1 will include fixes and tweaks in areas you’ve helped us identify, including a roll-up of the roll-ups we’ve released to date,” team member Michael Atalla […]

Skype released a free iPhone app with iPad compatibility on April 6, although the updated software still does not include support for 3G-enabled Skype calls. Termed Version 1.3.1, the Skype app includes boosted stability when switching between tabs, as well as handling unread chats and incoming calls. While the WiFi-only version of the iPad went […]

Microsoft’s recent decision to end support for Intel’s Itanium chip in its server architecture, along with the elimination of its Essential Business Server (EBS) development, suggests that the company is trying to reposition to take advantage of several developing business IT trends, including virtualization and cloud computing. That paradigm shift is also mirrored on the […]

Oracle unveiled Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management 8, designed to assist organizations in project portfolio management from conception through execution, on April 6. This is just one of several Oracle product announcements over the past few weeks, as the company seems to be stepping up its effort to provide systems solutions to the enterprise. Primavera Portfolio […]