Nicholas Kolakowski

Fusion Garage announced on Feb. 3 that its controversial JooJoo tablet PC had entered full production, with devices expected to reach consumers by the end of the month. That announcement came two days after Fusion Garage moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by TechCrunch, the publishing entity founded by blogger Michael Arrington, which […]

An agreement between Microsoft and the National Science Foundation will see the software giant providing NSF-supported researchers with access to the Windows Azure cloud platform and its various development tools. According to a press release issued by the NSF, following a joint press conference in Washington, D.C., on the afternoon of Feb. 4, the use […]

Despite announcing strong revenues for the second fiscal quarter of 2010, Microsoft is “failing” due to an inability to innovate and a tendency to let infighting kill potential blockbuster projects, according to a former Microsoft executive who says he worked on projects such as a commercial tablet PC earlier in the decade. “When we were […]

10 iPhone Business Apps That Should Be on iPad 10 iPhone Business Apps That Should Be on iPadBy Nicholas Kolakowski Bloomberg This app delivers news, stock quotes, analysis, price charts and company descriptions-all of which is useful on the iPhone, but could be better served by the iPad’s larger screen. At the very least, it […]

Amazon.com has reportedly acquired Touchco, a New York-based startup that focuses on multitouch technology, in a move that if confirmed will likely affect future versions of the online retailer’s Kindle e-reader. Specifically, Touchco’s technology allows for an unlimited amount of touch inputs to be made simultaneously on a screen. Sometime around the original Feb. 3 […]

Microsoft is investigating user complaints related to the battery life of laptops running Windows 7, a problem that apparently existed even before the operating system’s Oct. 22 launch. The issue seems to primarily affect those users who upgraded their system to Windows 7 from either Windows Vista or Windows XP, and limits their battery life […]

Microsoft is offering the Release Candidate of its upcoming Office 2010 to a select group of testers enrolled in its Technology Adoption Program. Presumably, the version being offered to that group incorporates feedback from the massive round of beta testing that Microsoft launched for the productivity platform in November. “Microsoft made a release candidate available […]

Apple’s iPad could feature a camera, according to the latest superheated rumors circulating around the Web on Feb. 2. Many of those rumors found their source in a blog posting from a Kansas-based Apple product repair company, Mission:Repair, which said that recently received spare parts for the iPad contained a space where a camera could […]

Fusion Garage filed a motion on Feb. 1 to dismiss the lawsuit filed against it by TechCrunch, the publishing entity founded by blogger Michael Arrington, which alleges that Fusion Garage’s JooJoo tablet PC is a rip-off of Arrington’s never-released CrunchPad. The legal action continues a saga that began in late 2009, when Arrington began insisting […]

Microsoft’s Windows 7 ran on nearly 10 percent of PCs during the last day of January, according to statistics-tracking firm Net Applications, reflecting a general adoption trend upward for the operating system. Unsurprisingly, Net Applications has indicated that the highest Windows 7 usage in the United States is centered on Redmond, Wash., where Microsoft has […]

Microsoft Bing Serves Up More Nutritional Info, Recipes Microsoft Bing Serves Up More Nutritional Info, RecipesBy Nicholas Kolakowski No Title Typing in the name of a food, such as pasta, will now offer a Recipes tab on the left side of the Bing search-results screen. No Title Clicking on the Recipes tab will guide the […]

Microsoft released a beta version of Windows Azure Drive, which allows users to port their applications from a localized Windows environment to the Windows Azure environment within a cloud, on Feb. 2. “Customers have told us they want to take their already running Windows applications and run them in the cloud using the standard Windows […]