Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft announced Sept. 1 the release of the Windows Embedded Standard 2011 Community Technology Preview to OEMs and developers of specialized devices. Originally code-named Quebec, the product delivers compartmentalized Windows 7 technologies. The Windows Embedded Standard 2011 CTP is available here. It allows OEMs to utilize only those Windows 7-based components they need for the […]

Four years after acquiring Skype Technologies, eBay plans to resell a majority share of the Internet-based calling service to a team of private investors for $1.9 billion in cash.The investor group, headed by Silver Lake Partners and including Marc Andreessen’s venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, will own 65 percent of Skype, with eBay retaining the remaining […]

In what will doubtlessly come as a relief for term-paper-writing students everywhere, Wikipedia plans on offering an optional feature that will color-code its entries for reliability. The program, created by the Wiki Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, seems tailor-made to mitigate frequent complaints about the online collaborative encyclopedia’s truthfulness. According to a […]

Samsung plans to launch its own mobile applications store in certain European countries on Sept. 14, to be followed by a more global rollout throughout 2010. An as-yet-inactive Website for the company’s store can be found here. The Samsung Application Store will initially roll out in France, Italy and the United Kingdom, to be followed […]

Apple will host a media event on Sept. 9 in San Francisco, most likely to roll out its new line of iPods. A brightly colored invitation to media featured a dancing silhouette from Apple’s iPod advertising campaigns along with the tagline, “It’s only rock and roll, but we like it.” The event will start at […]

SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin, in an Aug. 26 interview with eWEEK, suggested that “open source has revitalized the enterprise software space” and that the benefactors will be small to midsize businesses with a need for analytics platforms. Considering that SugarCRM offers open-source applications for campaign and account management, opportunity tracking, sales forecasting, and customer support, […]

Microsoft plans on launching Windows 7 in New York City on Oct. 22, with an event hosted by CEO Steve Ballmer. Although the company has declined to divulge many details, it has suggested that its ecosystem partners will use the high-profile stage to roll out their own new hardware. In many aspects, the rollout of […]

Apple‘s new operating system update, Snow Leopard, possesses many features designed to streamline business use. However, analysts suggest that if Apple wants to claim a larger market share of the business community, it will likely need to take additional steps beyond even an operating system that boosts increased security and under-the-hood speed improvements. Apple claims […]

12 iPhone Apps to Help You Win Your Fantasy Football League This Year by Nicholas Kolakowski Name: ESPN Fantasy Football 2009 Draft KitPrice: FreeA comprehensive fantasy-football app that contains 2009 rankings and projections for more than 500 players, who can be sorted by name, rank, team/bye week and their projected points. Player Cards feature not […]

Microsoft has two new legal allies, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, who both intend to file amicus briefs in a patent-infringement case that could see copies of Word pulled from store shelves within weeks. The briefs to be filed by Dell and Hewlett-Packard will support Microsoft’s appeal brief, filed on Aug. 25, asking a Texas court to […]

Microsoft plans to slash the price of its Xbox 360 Elite gaming system from $399 to $299 on Aug. 28, as part of a product-line restructuring that will see the Xbox 360 Pro discontinued once those units sell out. In order to rapidly reduce their stock of Xbox 360 Pro consoles, Microsoft has lowered the […]

Microsoft finds itself in the crosshairs of the Free Software Foundation, which announced on Aug. 26 that it will launch a “Windows 7 Sins” campaign designed to show how “proprietary software in general and Microsoft Windows in particular hurt all computer users.” In a press release tied to the campaign, which already has a Website, […]