Nicholas Kolakowski

Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Adds New E-Mail Features by Nicholas Kolakowski Opening E-Mails in Separate Tabs Mozilla took a page (literally) from Firefoxs book when it came to Thunderbird, allowing users to open e-mails as separate tabs in the same way that Firefox offers tabbed browser windows. Streamlining the Setup Process Mozilla attempted to streamline the […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested during a trip to Tokyo that the search-and-advertising partnership between his company and Yahoo could expand beyond the United States into global markets. “It’s possible that we will extend that partnership [with Yahoo] outside the U.S.,” Ballmer reportedly told a news conference, according to Reuters. “We will have to wait […]

Microsoft may not quite be out of the woods yet with regard to its antitrust dealings with the European Commission, the regulatory body that investigates possible violations of European Union antitrust rules. Although Redmond and the regulatory body seem close to a deal over the integration of Internet Explorer 8 into Windows 7, some of […]

The best way to think about the LTE Connected Car, a proof-of-concept vehicle displayed for reporters in New York Nov. 3, is that it’s a smartphone on wheels. Just as multifunctional devices such as the Apple iPhone or the Palm Pre have taken the traditional function of a phone-making calls-and added all sorts of other […]

BlackBerry Bold 9700 Is Sleek, Slim, but Not So Bold by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title The Bold 9700 feels compact in the hand, with a weight of 4.30 ounces and a height-by-width of 4.29 x 2.36 inches. It features a 35-key QWERTY keyboard, as well as a trackpad for navigation. The trackpad, it seems, has […]

Research In Motion finds itself in a bit of an odd spot these days. Although its BlackBerry line of smartphones continues to be popular among both consumers and the enterprise, a seemingly ever-increasing number of devices from other manufacturers threaten to eat into the company’s market share. Faced with such a challenge, some companies may […]

Alcatel-Lucent, Toyota Drive LTE Connected Car into Concept Spotlight by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title The LTE Connected Car attempts to turn a vehicle into a smartphone on wheels, combining navigation, entertainment and communication technology in a single platform. No Title Alcatel-Lucent merged an LTE broadband radio link with an in-car Wi-Fi environment, giving drivers and […]

Microsoft can take heart from a new report, issued on Nov. 5 by research company NPD Group, suggesting that U.S. sales of Windows 7 boxed software have exceeded those of Windows Vista in the corresponding time period. Specifically, NPD Group cites 234 percent higher sales for Windows 7 during the two operating systems’ respective first […]

Mozilla will roll out the newest version of its open-source e-mail application, Thunderbird 3, in mid-November. Supposedly, Mozilla made over 2,000 improvements to the platform, although users are most likely to notice its more top-line features such as filtered search and tabbed e-mail. Thunderbird 3, which will be available from this site on its release […]

Apple announced that its popular App Store now includes 100,000 apps for download. The mobile-applications storefront features apps in 20 categories, and is accessible to iPhone and iPod Touch users in 77 countries. The milestone comes just over a month after Apple announced 85,000 apps loaded onto the App Store. The size of Apple’s ecosystem […]

Sybase introduced new product offerings for the iPhone on Nov. 3, including policy enforcement and database synchronization, designed to help integrate Apple’s smartphone more firmly into the enterprise sphere. The offerings come courtesy of Sybase’s Afaria 6.5 with iPhone support, available in mid-November, and SQL Anywhere for iPhone, whose beta program is now open and […]

Microsoft confirmed on Nov. 4 that it will cut an additional 800 employees from its payroll, from multiple locations around the world. These newest eliminations are part of a larger 5,000-employee cut announced at the beginning of 2009. This latest round of cuts, however, may have slightly exceeded that original 5,000-employee goal. As of Oct. […]