Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft‘s Windows Mobile 6.5, the newest version of its smartphone operating system released on Oct. 6, is the company’s attempt to start afresh in the mobile space, according to a Microsoft executive. Windows Mobile 6.5 represents “a restart of our efforts in the mobile space and a continuation of the work we’ve done in the […]

Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5 Offers Mobile Office, Outlook, Calendar, More by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title The opening screen of Mobile 6.5 offers quick access to phone and e-mail, as well as Marketplace, Mobiles equivalent of Apples App Store, and Internet Explorer Mobile, a mobile browser designed to bring desktop feel to Web crawling. No Title […]

Palm‘s latest webOS update again syncs with iTunes, despite Apple’s repeated attempts to prevent its rival’s smartphones from using its popular media software. In a somewhat less controversial move, webOS 1.2.1 also fixes an issue with Microsoft Exchange. Specifically, the webOS 1.2.1 update resolves a glitch that prevented Microsoft Exchange 2007 users from fully synchronizing […]

Microsoft needs a substantial hit in Windows 7 to counteract quarters of declining revenues as well as Windows Vista’s unpopularity. Some analysts say that a tech refresh centered on Windows 7 is in the cards for many SMBs and the enterprise, but interviews conducted by eWEEK suggest that adoption may not be immediate nor wholehearted […]

When Microsoft releases the newest version of its mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5, on Oct. 6, it will have more riding on the success of that launch than most other companies’ mobile updates.Microsoft has seen its share of the mobile operating-system market decline, reaching 9 percent in the second quarter of 2009, according to […]

NEW YORK – Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff headlined an event at Manhattan’s Time Warner Center designed to highlight both his company’s new partnership with Cisco Systems and new additions to its Service Cloud 2 platform. “The most thrilling thing with moving to the cloud isn’t just applications…but platforms themselves,” Benioff told a ballroom of analysts, […]

Apple filed a patent application in June 2009 for a touch-screen interface, indicating that its rumored plans for a tablet PC could be well under way, according to reports that surfaced on Oct. 2. The patent application, which can be found here, describes a device whose screen could be manipulated with not only the fingers […]

Microsoft‘s Bing search engine saw its September share of the U.S. market slip to 8.5 percent from 9.6 percent in August, while Google’s share hit 80 percent, according to a new report from analytics firm StatCounter. According to StatCounter CEO Aodhan Cullen, the trend for Bing has been downward since mid-August: “The wheels haven’t fallen […]

Amazon.com settled a lawsuit leveled against it by a Michigan student and another plaintiff, who claimed that the online retailer’s deletion of George Orwell’s “1984” from their Kindle e-readers was illegal. By settling for $150,000, a portion of which will be donated by the plaintiffs’ lawyers to charity, Amazon.com seems to have dodged the specter […]

Kill Time with 15 Totally Useless iPhone Apps by Nicholas Kolakowski Name: iBugPrice: $2.99″From the wacky creators of iBeer,” boasts the App Store description for this app, which sets a virtual ladybug and cockroach scurrying over your device’s screen. Users can feed, tickle and even shake the little vermin. Name: iBeerPrice: $0.99One of the more […]

Microsoft saw its share of the operating system market fall in September, even as Apple gained thanks to users’ adoption of Snow Leopard, according to statistics firm Net Applications. Those respective gains and losses were relatively small, however, with Microsoft’s share dipping from 93.06 percent in August to 92.77 percent in September, a dip of […]

Microsoft may face another round of legal hurdles in the patent-infringement case leveled against it by Uniloc, despite winning an appeal on Sept. 29 that spared Redmond from having to pay $388 million in damages to the smaller software company.Uniloc plans on appealing that most recent decision.“We are disappointed by the decision the trial judge […]