Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple found numerous violations during a 2009 audit of its suppliers and manufacturers, according to a recently issued 2010 progress report on supplier responsibility. Facility locations included China, the Czech Republic, South Korea, Thailand and the United States. “Apple audits all final assembly manufacturers every year, regardless of their location and past audit performance,” the […]

Apple’s release of its iPad tablet PC could initially be limited due to unnamed issues within its manufacturing pipeline, according to a widely circulated analyst report. Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek wrote in a March 1 research note, widely reprinted on sites and blogs such as Apple Insider, that Apple was experiencing “an unspecified production […]

Microsoft had a big week on the government and legal fronts, ranging from lawyer-driven attempts to shut down a botnet and a watchdog site that posted its internal documents, to the announcement of an online-services cloud for the federal government.On Feb. 24, Microsoft announced security and privacy enhancements to its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) […]

Apple could lower the price of its next version of the iPhone in order to better compete in a mobile marketplace increasingly crowded by Google Android, Microsoft and BlackBerry devices, according to a Morgan Stanley analyst. In a note to investors, reported widely on sites such as Apple Insider, analyst Katy Huberty said she expected […]

Microsoft withdrew its request to have Cryptome.org, a site that posts leaked documents from corporations and governments, taken down after it published an internal document detailing which of its users’ online data Microsoft was willing to share with law enforcement under certain circumstances.That document, titled, “Microsoft Online Services Global Criminal Compliance Handbook,” details how long […]

Intel’s long-planned internal move to Windows 7 and 64-bit computing involves a lot of “heavy lifting,” according to an Intel engineer in a lengthy Feb. 24 posting on the tech company’s Open Port IT Community blog.Intel and Microsoft have been partnered through the latter’s TAP (Technology Adopter Program) to bring the operating system, which was […]

SAP has unveiled its SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand platform, a platform for what the company described as “casual BI users currently underserved by products on the market.” Using SAP BusinessObjects Explorer software, users can combine data from multiple sources and proceed to do an analysis or create a report. SAP said its intention with the […]

Microsoft and Panasonic announced an intellectual property licensing agreement Feb. 25 that will give the latter access to Microsoft’s exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) technology. In theory, Panasonic will be able to leverage exFAT, which allows flash memory devices to manage larger files, into a variety of consumer electronic devices. “Microsoft’s exFAT file system technology […]

Microsoft has launched its Windows MultiPoint Server 2010, which allows users at multiple terminals to connect to a single host computer. The operating system, released Feb. 24, is being aimed at the education segment, and Microsoft said it will make the product available to academic volume licensing customers on March 1. In theory, Windows MultiPoint […]

The Federal Communications Commission wants to increase the wireless spectrum available to mobile carriers by 500 megahertz over the next decade, a plan that involves auctioning off portions of spectrum currently held by television broadcasters and other providers. Reports indicate that the 500 megahertz could be worth as much as $50 billion. That increase of […]

Microsoft and Eclipsys announced an alliance Feb. 24 that will see components of the latter’s Sunrise Enterprise suite integrated into the former’s Amalga Unified Intelligence System, providing health care organizations such as hospitals with increased analytic capabilities on top of unified storage of patient and clinical data. Eclipsys provides integrated clinical, revenue cycle and performance-management […]

Google plans to appeal the conviction of three of its employees in an Italian privacy-invasion case, according to the company’s official blog, which also railed against Judge Oscar Magi’s Feb. 24 ruling as possibly detrimental to Internet freedom. At issue in the case was whether a 191-second video of four Turin high school students bullying […]