Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft and Yahoo’s search-and-advertising agreement is still being evaluated by the U.S. Department of Justice, but the two companies have approval from at least one quarter: the American Association of Advertising Agencies, an ad-agency group that includes major firms such as Interpublic Group, Omnicom Group, WPP and Publicis Groupe. “A healthy, competitive market for search […]

NEW YORK CITY-Barnes & Noble has joined the increasingly crowded e-reader field with the Nook, a device it doubtlessly hopes will take market share away from Amazon.com’s Kindle line. Barnes & Noble executives including CEO Steve Riggio took the stage at Chelsea Piers on the Hudson River here to show off the e-reader, which features […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used his keynote address at Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas to frame SharePoint Server 2010 as “the center” of Microsoft’s attempts to collaborate, find and share information. Microsoft used the Conference to announce that public betas of both Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 would be available […]

Microsoft used its SharePoint Conference to announce that the public betas of both Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 will be available in November. The betas will reportedly include all the platforms’ functionalities, and Microsoft intends them to be performance-stable. Additionally, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used the event as a platform for revealing […]

Plastic Logic announced QUE as the name of its upcoming e-reader, and promised more pricing and feature details at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show, in an Oct. 19 press release seemingly timed to take advantage of a week heavy in e-reader news. With Barnes & Noble predicted to announce its e-reader on Oct. 20 and […]

Microsoft suggested in an Oct. 18 statement that it will restore lost personal data for T-Mobile Sidekick users starting this week. A server malfunction at Microsoft subsidiary Danger Inc. earlier this month had deleted information stored on the devices of some 800,000 Sidekick owners. “We continue to make steady progress, and we hope to be […]

Apple announced on Oct. 19 fiscal fourth-quarter results that trumped Wall Street expectations, with revenue of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion. During the quarter, Apple sold about 3.05 million Macs, a 17 percent year-over-year rise, and 7.4 million iPhones, a 7 percent increase over the same quarter in 2008. Despite […]

The bell tolls for thee, XP. Microsoft‘s Windows XP powers 80 percent of all commercial PCs, according to a new report by research firm Forrester, but the reign of the increasingly aged operating system is finally coming to an end. But XP’s end will also not come quickly, even after the launch of Windows 7 […]

Microsoft seems to be on its way to restoring personal data for users of T-Mobile’s Sidekick smartphone who found their information deleted after a server malfunction at Microsoft’s subsidiary Danger knocked out service, reportedly beginning Oct. 2. A few questions about the cause of the original incident remain, however. Even with reaction to the incident […]

Apple may offer a rosy outlook during its Oct. 19 quarterly earnings call, buoyed by strong iPhone 3Gs and “Snow Leopard” sales, as well as potential products in the pipeline such as a tablet PC. According to The Wall Street Journal, quoting an analyst survey by Thomson Reuters, Apple is estimated to earn $1.42 a […]

Apple will allow developers to insert functionality into iPhone and iPod Touch applications that lets users upgrade from the free (or “lite”) version of an iPhone App to the full, paid version without needing to route the purchase through the App Store. This could potentially streamline Apple’s App Store by reducing the number of developers […]

Twitter may not have stumbled yet on a strategy for monetizing its microblogging site-at least, not in the big-bucks way that would satisfy its investors-but it has figured out how to market its own brand of wine. Partnered with San Francisco winery Crushpad, which bills itself as a place that enables “people with day jobs […]