Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft has made public its desire to seize a bigger portion of the mainland Chinese market for its search engine, Bing, but it remains too early to tell whether Google’s threat to pull out of China will help or hurt its chances. “Microsoft is committed to the China market and the search market in China […]

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard announced a $250 million, three-year agreement on Jan. 13 to mutually invest in engineering, sales and marketing initiatives for the enterprise. The deal will see the companies collaborate on, among other things, management and virtualization solutions across the datacenter, pre-packaged solutions for data warehousing and transaction processing, and the Windows Azure cloud […]

E-readers were one of the hot items at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which devoted a section in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center to the devices. While that may brighten the prospects for e-reading as a phenomenon, the number of device manufacturers at CES hints that the relatively […]

Microsoft announced its Dynamics AX for Retail, an end-to-end solution for midsize retailers, during the National Retail Federation Annual Convention & Expo in New York on Jan. 11. The platform, which will be available starting this summer, distills integrated data from a retail operations chain, including point of sale, store management, supply chain, merchandising and […]

Oracle rolled out Oracle Global Trade Management and Oracle Transportation Management 6.1, two platforms designed to help enterprises manage trade compliance and shipping, on Jan. 11. Oracle Transportation Management 6.1 consolidates onto one platform the ability to manage trade compliance and transportation requirements, and helps shippers and logistic service providers both monitor their environmental impact-through […]

10 Must-See Microsoft Windows Mobile Smartphones from CES by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title HTC Touch Pro2 No Title HTC Ozone No Title LG GW550 No Title LG GM730 No Title Zune HD, which despite its low portable-media-player market share, continues to play a role in Microsofts mobile plans. No Title Zune HD available in a […]

Apparently in response to a patent-infringement lawsuit filed against it by small IT company i4i, Microsoft pulled copies of Office 2007 from its online store and issued patches for Word 2003 and Word 2007 in its online download center. Time ran out for Microsoft on Jan. 11, the date by which a legal injunction demanded […]

Mozilla unveiled the release candidate for Firefox 3.6 on Jan. 10, offering the browser both as a free download from its site and as an automatic update for all Firefox 3.6 Beta users. According to the open-source organization’s Jan. 10 statement, “Over 75 percent of … Firefox add-ons have now been upgraded by their authors […]

Impressive Library of E-Readers Unveiled at CES: Plastic Logic, iRiver, Amazon Kindle DX by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title Plastic Logic rolled out its Que e-reader, which the company is targeting at the business segment by highlighting its ability to download and display Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and PDF documents on its 10.7-inch screen. No Title Plastic […]

Hot Laptops Spotted at CES: IdeaPad U1, Dell Adamo XPS, Alienware by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title Lenovos IdeaPad U1 hybrid notebook features a detachable screen, which removes to become a multitouch slate tablet. The HD LED-backlit display measures 11.6 inches and features around 5 hours of battery life. It will retail for under $1,000 and […]