Nicholas Kolakowski

Michael Arrington, founder of popular tech blog TechCrunch, announced that he had filed a lawsuit Dec. 10 against Singapore-based Fusion Garage, formally alleging that the latter company’s JooJoo tablet PC is a rip-off of Arrington’s never-released CrunchPad. The JooJoo, a 12.1-inch touch screen tablet priced at $499, was launched for preorders on Dec. 11. The […]

The early reviews of Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader are starting to trickle in, and they’re not pretty.“I don’t think it’s as good as the Kindle, at least not yet,” Walt Mossberg wrote in his Wall Street Journal column on Dec. 9. “At launch, the Nook has the feel of a product with great potential […]

Microsoft announced the acquisition of Opalis Software, which produces software for automating complex processes within data centers, on Dec. 11. The Opalis portfolio will be integrated into Microsoft System Center, theoretically driving down customers’ costs and streamlining their workflows through automation. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Opalis products include prepackaged workflows for data […]

Microsoft will pay Yahoo some $150 million in expenses once the two companies’ search-and-advertising deal finally closes, according to reports circulating online, while a Yahoo executive suggested that his company is already deciding which engineers will be shifted over to Microsoft. Yahoo’s identifying the engineers to transfer to its new partner has apparently been underway […]

Microsoft posted a revamped version of its free Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool (WUDT) on Dec. 9, nearly a month after removing the program from the online Microsoft Store over allegations that it contained improperly copied open source code. The tool allows Windows 7 to be ported onto netbooks, many of which do not feature […]

Apple will release its tablet PC in late March or April, Oppenheimer & Co. financial analyst Yair Reiner suggested in a Dec. 8 research note sent to investors, and will include a 10.1-inch touch screen. “It appears Apple will begin ramping production in earnest in February, implying that the tablet could launch in late March […]

Apple‘s iPhone has sold around 100,000 units in China through its partner in that country, China Unicom, according to reports circulating online. That number is far smaller than the number of iPhones sold in the United States, but nonetheless represents a marked increase from the beginning of November, when only a few thousand phones were […]

Microsoft announced plans Dec. 10 to acquire Sentillion, a privately held health care IT company. On its Website, Sentillion advertises itself as producing “identity and access management technology” that allows hospitals and caregivers to incorporate and control “islands of computerized automation into cohesive care delivery workflows.” Terms of the deal, which is expected to close […]

Microsoft‘s Office 2010 may be more than six months away from launch, but Redmond is already planning the next iteration of its productivity-applications suite, according to a recent company blog posting. “As Office 2010 nears shipping, we are starting to plan Office 15,” Greg Lindhorst, a software manager at Microsoft, wrote in a Dec. 3 […]

Apple has launched an RSS feed for iPhone developers, creating a new communication channel for news and announcements surrounding App Store submissions and reviews. The announcement of the RSS feed comes days after Apple yanked a developer from the site, allegedly for posting faked reviews. “You can now subscribe to a new RSS feed that […]

Oracle announced the release of Oracle Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance Manager (Oracle Enterprise GRC Manager) and a new version of Oracle Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance Controls (Oracle Enterprise GRC Controls) on Dec. 7. With the new releases designed to provide an end-to-end solution to organizations’ GRC needs, Oracle aims to create a closed-loop […]

Microsoft has been busy reminding users that support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 will end in July 2010, perhaps prodding those users committed to staying with a Windows-based operating system to upgrade to Windows 7. “Support for Windows XP SP2 will end on July 13, 2010, after which customers will need […]