Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft will offer the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application through its channel, allowing customers running a Microsoft platform to more readily leverage SAP’s planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial applications. “The application takes advantage of the latest available versions of Microsoft Office 2007, including integration with Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008,” […]

T-Mobile confirmed that an employee had passed along customer data to third-party brokers in the U.K., an incident that could lead to criminal prosecution. Given that the defendants likely face a potential fine but no jail time, a number of British commentators have been suggesting that penalties for illegal data-trading be stiffened to include prison […]

Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system has been outselling its predecessors, specifically Windows Vista, by a ratio of 2-to-1, CEO Steve Ballmer told an audience at the Microsoft Annual Shareholder Meeting on Nov. 19. “Since launch, we’re already sold twice as many units of Windows 7 [as] any other operating system we’ve ever launched in a […]

Motorola Droid Takes Aim at iPhone with Google Mobile Services by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title Packaging for the Motorola Droid and the Droid Eris by HTC demonstrates how those manufacturers, along with Verizon, are trying to create a brand to compete with the iPhone. No Title The box for the Droid looks like a friendlier […]

There’s an interesting bit of legalese on the side of the box containing the Motorola Droid from Verizon Wireless: “DROID is a trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd. and its related companies.” In the “Star Wars” movies, droids were bumbling robots such as R2D2, inserted into the narrative largely as comic relief. But there’s nothing particularly cute […]

Under the Hood: Android-Based HTC Droid Eris by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title The Droid Eris box heavily promotes the Google Android operating system, as opposed to the devices form factor or mechanical features. No Title The Droid Eris features a 3.2-inch capacitive touch screen and trackball interface. It weighs 4.23 ounces, feeling light in the […]

Microsoft released beta versions of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Project 2010, Visio 2010, Office Web Apps for businesses and Office Mobile 2010 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles on Nov. 18. The beta versions can be downloaded from this Microsoft site. As with its development of Windows 7, Microsoft is looking to […]

A Chinese court ruled on Nov. 16 that Microsoft had violated the intellectual property rights of a Beijing-based software company, Zhongyi Electronic, in its use of two Chinese fonts. The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court ruled that Microsoft’s use of those fonts in Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 went […]

T-Mobile will begin selling models of its Sidekick smartphone again, more than a month after being forced to pull the devices due to a massive server outage that deleted user data. Early in October, a hardware issue on servers run by Microsoft subsidiary Danger wiped the personal data from nearly 800,000 Sidekick users’ phones. In […]

Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft before moving on to invest in a number of ventures including the Portland Trail Blazers, has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. “This is tough news for Paul and the family,” Jody Allen, Paul Allen’s sister and chief executive of his Vulcan investment group, wrote in an e-mail to employees that […]

Even as it started planning Microsoft Azure, its cloud-based platform for designing Web applications and services, Microsoft evolved in its thinking on the nature of the cloud-and drew some inspiration from the architecture behind Bing, its search engine. So said Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business division, during a Nov. 17 keynote […]

Latest Apple Store Opening in NYC Features New MacBooks, iPods Latest Apple Store Opening in NYC Features New MacBooks, iPodsBy Nicholas Kolakowski No Title Apple’s new Upper West Side store features a glass-cube design similar to Apple’s Fifth Avenue location. No Title Within hours of the opening, the store seemed equally packed with visitors and […]