Nicholas Kolakowski

Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader will go head-to-head with Amazon.com’s Kindle this holiday season. While the Kindle cornered much of the public’s attention throughout 2009, thanks in part to extraordinarily high-profile launches of its latest models, it now faces substantial competition from companies that have dissected its business model. Two or three quarters from now, […]

Sony will recall 69,000 Vaio AC power adapters due to their increased risk of electrical shock, after a handful of reports of short-circuiting units. “Sony has initiated a voluntary recall for certain AC power adapters which may short circuit and pose a potential electrical shock hazard,” read an Oct. 27 posting on Sony’s eSupport Website. […]

In response to news that the Windows 7 upgrade disk can be used to install the entire operating system on a blank hard drive, Microsoft issued a firm message: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Microsoft, of course, would like the community to follow its EULA (End User License Agreement), which stipulates that […]

Barnes & Noble announced an agreement to sell Plastic Logic’s QUE e-reader through both its brick-and-mortar stores and online retailer, despite the bookseller rolling out its own Nook e-reader last week. Barnes & Noble’s in-store placement of the QUE will be near displays for the Nook. This marks the second collaborative announcement between the two […]

Microsoft‘s Windows 7 was meant to shut the door on Redmond’s older operating systems, with its Oct. 22 launch event in New York City viewed by many analysts as a sort of exorcism of the much-maligned Windows Vista. But Vista still has some life left, as evidenced by the Oct. 27 release of the Platform […]

The future of the enterprise will be a hybrid, at least when it comes to software as a service, the president of SAP North America told eWEEK in a recent interview. “Businesses will likely have to have both on-premises and SAAS [software],” Rob Enslin said during an Oct. 21 customer event in New York. “On-demand […]

Yahoo finally shut down GeoCities, its free Web hosting service, on Oct. 26. Despite being a sentimental favorite of many who built Websites through GeoCities in its heyday, the service found itself losing both market- and mind-share over the years to newer offerings. Yahoo originally acquired GeoCities in 1999 for $3.6 billion, hoping that millions […]

SAP announced Oct. 27 during its SAP TechEd conference in Vienna, Austria, that it would roll out a new version of its SAP BusinessObjects Explorer in November. The new version will bring enhancements to the user interface as well as the ability to search through any data source in order to parse out information relevant […]

Rumors of an Apple tablet PC were refueled over the weekend, with leaked video of the executive editor at The New York Times referring to “the impending Apple slate” at an Oct. 16 meeting. While Apple has long refused to confirm or deny the scuttlebutt about a tablet PC in the works, periodic leaks of […]

Microsoft likely hit its financial bottom over the summer, suggested analyst Katherine Egbert from research firm Jefferies & Co., and has a strong chance of rebounding as both the economy and the tech sector continue to dig themselves from a longstanding economic recession. “Strong Client and Xbox revenue and continuing cost control lead to a […]

For some of those who ordered Microsoft‘s Windows 7 student edition for $29.99, the low price is coming with a heap of download issues. A number of customers have experienced installation failure with the upgrade, which comes through e-commerce company Digital River. As the installation reaches the “Unloading the Box” phase, various error messages pop […]

Microsoft‘s week was all about Windows 7. Years ago, Bill Gates talked about a Microsoft philosophy that saw a computer running Windows on every desk and in every home. During the Windows 7 launch in New York City on Oct. 22, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer rolled out version 2.0 of that philosophy: Windows running not […]