Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft MSN Homepage Redesigned for Easy Facebook, Twitter Access by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title The newly redesigned MSN homepage includes more white space and a rearrangement of many visual elements, for a “cleaner” feel. No Title The new MSN page leverages Bing and its partnership with Twitter to aggregate Tweets related to your location. No […]

Samsung’s E60 eReader will make its debut in partnership with Barnes & Noble at some point in the spring, adding yet another competitor to the already crowded e-reader space. The device features a 6-inch screen, sliding form-factor, embedded front speakers for text-to-speech and a stylus for inputting notes, features that Samsung hopes will differentiate it […]

Microsoft and Adobe are apparently working together to ensure that Windows Phone 7 Series supports Flash Player 10.1, according to a blog posting by an Adobe executive. Enabling that support could possibly counter February reports that the first generation of Microsoft’s new smartphone operating system would lack Flash, which activates rich content on a variety […]

Microsoft could renew its presence in the mobile consumer market with the release of Windows Phone 7 Series devices later in 2010, according to a March 9 research note from Jefferies & Co. analyst Katherine Egbert. Egbert apparently met with Mindy Mount, CFO of Microsoft’s Electronic and Entertainment Division (EDD), at the analyst firm’s annual […]

Hewlett-Packard’s upcoming tablet PC has an advantage over Apple’s iPad thanks to its ability to run Flash, an HP executive wrote in a March 8 posting on a corporate blog. As the launch date for the iPad rapidly approaches, it becomes increasingly clear that the iPad’s deliberate shunning of Flash support may be the hamstring […]

Microsoft began rolling out its redesigned MSN homepage on March 9, emphasizing the Website’s stripped-down design and integration with social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook. The redesign, first previewed in November, includes 50 percent fewer links and an emphasis on white space. In addition, the new MSN homepage features multiple Bing-powered search bars […]

Google Public Data Explorer Breaks It Down for Students, Wonks, Stat Lovers Nicholas Kolakowski Getting Started The opening screen of Google Public Data Explorer. Clicking “Explore the data” will launch you into a page of datasets, from which an analysis can begin. Seeing the Datasets Google Public Data Explorer first offers you a collection of […]

Cisco unveiled a new router, the CRS-3, that it claimed in the ramp-up to the March 9 announcement would “forever change the Internet.” Whether or not that bold prophecy comes to fruition, the CRS-3 is nonetheless capable of handling enormous amounts of online traffic, with a Cisco executive claiming that the router with its 322-terabit-per-second […]

Apple aired its first television commercial for the iPad during the Academy Awards telecast March 7. The 30-second spot shows a pair of hands using the tablet PC as a media player, e-reader, scheduler, and e-mail platform. The iPad is expected to make its debut April 3, as the company shows ever-accelerating signs of preparing […]

Businesses will be able to purchase the full version of Office 2010 May 12, roughly a month before consumers get their hands on Microsoft’s next-version productivity suite. “For businesses, we will launch the 2010 set of products, including Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010 worldwide on May 12,” Jevon Fark, senior marketing […]

SAP and Sybase have partnered to push two applications for mobile workers seeking to use their smartphones to execute specific business processes. The two products are Sybase Mobile Sales for SAP CRM, which gives road warriors access to SAP CRM 2007 through either an iPhone or Windows Mobile smartphone, and Sybase Mobile Workflow for SAP […]

Google announced the launch March 8 of Google Public Data Explorer, an experimental application offered through Google Labs. The tool allows everyone from students to policy wonks to create a wide variety of charts from public data, such as fertility or unemployment rates.For example, a user who swings by the Website can select “Explore the […]