Nicholas Kolakowski

BlackBerry users may be irritated by the Dec. 17 e-mail outage that hit their devices, but there’s a bit of good news for the bibliophiles among them: According to Amazon.com, a Kindle e-reader application is on the way for BlackBerry smartphones. As for a release date, “Coming soon” is all that Amazon.com is revealing on […]

Oracle announced on Dec. 16 that its new Oracle Application Integration Architecture Release 2.5 PPM Process Integration Packs will integrate project management with enterprise resource planning. The Oracle Project Portfolio Management Integration Pack for Primavera P6 and the Oracle E-Business Suite will connect Primavera P6 with the Oracle E-Business Suite, merging project management and financial […]

Microsoft finds itself the target of a lawsuit from a small St. Louis tech company that says it was using “Bing” as a trademark as far back as 2000, nine years before Microsoft named its search engine. Bing Information Design filed the case against Microsoft in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis […]

Microsoft has resolved its long-standing dispute with the European Commission over the inclusion of Internet Explorer with Windows. Under the terms of the agreement, announced on Dec. 16, Microsoft will install an automatic “ballot screen” that will let Windows users choose between 12 different browsers. The European Commission, the law enforcement body of the European […]

Microsoft refused to comment to eWEEK about its internal code-vetting procedures after two incidents in November and December involving plagarized code. In the November incident, Microsoft apologized for what it called a third-party vendor improperly incorporating open-source code into a Windows 7 download tool. In the December incident, Microsoft again apologized after it found that […]

Microsoft launched a Bing app for iPhone on Dec. 16, giving users of its rival’s smartphone the ability to voice search, find nearby points of interest, and receive driving or walking directions. The app can be downloaded from Apple’s App Store. “Our investments in voice search (you may have played with them on Windows phones […]

Microsoft‘s 2009 was a pivotal year for the company, to say the least. The economic recession that gripped much of the tech industry did not spare Redmond, which was forced to report a 17 percent decline in year-over-year revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009. Earnings came in at $13.10 billion, around $1 billion […]

Microsoft’s 2009 Included Windows 7, Bing, Azure and Windows Mobile by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title Microsofts 2009 began with the company prepping for some of the biggest gambles in its history, including the general release of Windows 7, the operating system meant to replace Vista, which never shook its reputation as a buggy memory hog. […]

Microsoft made its fortune with a desktop-centric software development model. However, 2009 saw the emergence of cloud-based computing, and, with it, a challenge to the software giant’s traditional business model. Microsoft has been experimenting with cloud-computing platforms aimed at a number of different audiences, although the full results of those efforts probably won’t be known […]

Microsoft decided to challenge Google more robustly in the U.S. search-engine arena in 2009, pouring millions of marketing and development dollars into a revamped and rebranded search engine, Bing. Microsoft originally announced Bing as the replacement for its Live Search at the seventh annual D: All Things Digital conference in California on May 28. As […]

Apple tweaked the look and feel of its App Store over the weekend of Dec. 12, cosmetic changes that nonetheless emphasized how the company is attempting to readjust certain aspects of its online storefront in light of its explosive growth. Logos for the App Store’s mobile applications have been enlarged, with a more prominent purchase […]

Talk about the enemy of your enemy being your friend: in a Dec. 10 post on his blog, Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s director of community development, said, “Bing does have a better privacy policy than Google,” and urged users to switch Firefox to Microsoft’s search engine via an add-on. That somewhat surprising message came three days […]