Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft’s March 1 introduction of “Web browser choice screen,” which presents European users of Windows with a randomized list of popular browsers from which to choose in addition to Internet Explorer, is already having an effect in Europe. Opera has reported triple the number of downloads in larger European countries, but smaller browsers may protest […]

Apple’s iPad tablet PC could launch on March 26, according to the latest rumors, but 3G-capable versions will not be available until April or May. That would fall roughly within the timeframe for release proposed by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in his high-profile unveiling of the device in January. These newest rumors seemed to have […]

Spanish security forces, in conjunction with IT security firms Defense Intelligence and Panda Security, announced the arrest of three men who allegedly ran the Mariposa botnet, which spread malicious programming to millions of PCs in 190 countries. “Mariposa” means butterfly in Spanish, but the actual botnet was anything but small and delicate, being one of […]

Comedy Central programs “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” will no longer be available on Hulu, due to a dispute between the network and the streaming video site. The shows will be removed from the site starting at 11:59 p.m. PST on March 9. “In the past 21 months, we’ve had […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer appeared noncommittal on the idea of his company eventually acquiring microblogging site Twitter, while also being bullish on Bing, at the Search Marketing Expo in Santa Clara, Calif., March 2. Asked during an onstage presentation about whether he wanted to see Bing become the most-used search engine over Google, Ballmer said, […]

Yahoo could take years to return to strength, according to CEO Carol Bartz, who compared her struggling Internet company to Apple circa the return of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997. “It took him four years,” Bartz told the Associated Press and other media during a March 2 meeting to commemorate Yahoo’s 15th anniversary, referring […]

Microsoft began introducing its “Web browser choice screen,” which presents European users of Windows 7 with a randomized list of popular browsers to choose from in addition to Internet Explorer, on March 1. The measure is designed to assuage antitrust concerns over Internet Explorer 8 being bundled with Windows 7, and while the European Commission-Europe’s […]

As part of its drive to have as many Websites compatible with Internet Explorer 8 as possible, Microsoft in a blog posting March 2 describes the thinking that went into how the browser chooses to render Websites. For some sites, IE 8 needs a feature known as Compatibility View to render all elements properly. The […]

Apple is claiming that HTC violated 20 of its patents surrounding the iPhone’s interface, architecture and hardware, in a lawsuit filed March 2 with the U.S. International Trade Commission and the U.S. District Court in Delaware. “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it,” Apple […]

The Windows 7 operating system continues to sell strongly five months after its release, but a tech refresh among businesses may take additional time to develop, according to Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein. Klein told those gathered for a Morgan Stanley investor conference March 2 that Microsoft expects fiscal 2011 to see the beginnings […]

Oracle announced two health care IT applications at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference & Exhibition March 1, a venue being used by a multitude of tech companies to introduce their own health care software products. The two applications include Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base 6.1, a multiple-use data repository for administrative, clinical and […]

Microsoft refused to confirm widely circulated reports that smartphones currently running Windows Mobile 6.x will not be upgradable to the new Windows Phone 7 Series operating system. Natasha Kwan, general manager of Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business in the Asia-Pacific region, is quoted as saying in a March 1 article in APC magazine that “because we […]