Nicholas Kolakowski

Apple will debut its “latest creation” in San Francisco on Jan. 27, according to an official invite sent to media and analysts, who widely expect the device in question to be a tablet PC. In typical Apple fashion, the invitation itself is short on details and big on style, featuring an Apple logo against a […]

Microsoft will delete the stored IP addresses of Bing users after six months, apparently in response to privacy concerns from advocates and regulators. “We will delete the entire Internet Protocol address associated with search queries at six months rather than 18 months,” Peter Cullen, Microsoft’s chief privacy strategist, wrote in a Jan. 18 posting on […]

Microsoft’s week involved a fresh spate of rumors involving Windows Mobile 7, widely regarded as the company’s best hope to either retard or reverse its market share erosion in the smartphone space, where it faces competition from the likes of Apple’s iPhone, RIM’s BlackBerry and other determined players. At the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in […]

Amazon.com will allow authors and publishers to upload and sell books in English, German and French in the Kindle Store via its self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform, the online retailer announced on Jan. 15. This marks the expansion of a program previously limited to authors and publishers in the United States. “We are excited to […]

Google Earth Reveals Haiti Earthquake Devastation by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title Google has been working with GeoEye to make the satellite-imagery companys latest orbital photos of Port-au-Prince available to Google Earth. No Title Googles images of Port-au-Prince were snapped at 10:27 a.m. on Jan. 13. No Title In these images, one can see how sites […]

SAP is now offering a tiered pricing model for customer support, an apparent stand-down from the business-software maker’s earlier plan to raise its entire user base’s maintenance fees. In addition, the company will keep its 2010 fees for existing SAP Enterprise Support contracts unchanged from 2009 benchmarks. “We will now provide a tiered support portfolio,” […]

Microsoft is emphasizing that none of its e-mail systems were targeted in the recent high-profile cyber-attacks that have Google threatening to pull its business out of mainland China. “We have no indication that any of our mail properties have been compromised,” a Microsoft spokesperson told eWEEK on Jan. 14. In addition, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer […]

Google, Microsoft and a range of other IT companies are donating their money and skill sets to help Haiti in the wake of the massive earthquake Jan. 12 that devastated the capitol, Port-au-Prince, and left as many as 50,000 people dead. While a number of nations have pledged aid and money, Haiti’s lack of infrastructure […]

Will Microsoft delay Windows Mobile 7, its operating system for smartphones, until 2011? Rumors circulating online this week seemed to suggest that could be the case. Much of that scuttlebutt drew its fuel from a report published on the site Bright Side of News, which said: “We spoke with representatives from Microsoft, Lenovo, Qualcomm, TI, […]

As part of Microsoft’s broader refinement of Bing, its search engine, health-related searches have started drawing in more information from new partners and databases. Termed the “enhanced Bing Health search experience,” queries on health topics now return data from multiple sources, structured into easy-to-scan tables. As it seeks to gain an increased share of the […]