Nicholas Kolakowski

After 30 years, CompuServe Classic was finally shut down for good by AOL. Throughout the 1980s and early ’90s, CompuServe was a premier Internet provider, attracting users to its forums and other services. It was one of the dial-up networks that Bill Gates obsessed about in the early 90s, and along with companies such as […]

Microsoft is apparently in talks to settle antitrust probes initiated by the European Union, according to Bloomberg, which cited unnamed people “familiar with the negotiations.” The first of the two cases involves the inclusion of Internet Explorer within Windows; the second deals with the ability of Microsoft Word and Excel to successfully interact with other […]

Microsoft Bing has become the default search on Verizon-powered mobile devices as part of a five-year deal. According to a January story in The New York Times, which quoted an unnamed source “familiar with the deal,” Microsoft will pay Verizon somewhere in the neighborhood of $500 million for the lifetime of the agreement. When asked […]

Microsoft launched Hohm, its Website for consumers looking to monitor and regulate energy consumption in their homes, on July 6. The site is a component of a larger Microsoft “green IT” initiative that includes the company’s Environmental Sustainability Dashboard for Microsoft Dynamics AX, launched in February. Based on information provided by users, Hohm performs calculations […]

Future versions of the Apple iPod could include a camera for still photos and video, adding another layer of functionality to the popular line of devices. According to TechCrunch, which quoted from sources in Asia, Apple has placed a huge order for $10 camera modules. Simultaneously, Macrumors has published images of an iPod Touch case […]

Microsoft Bing is fully running again after a July 2 fire at a Seattle data center that took down the Travel portion of the search engine. The electrical fire, whose cause is under investigation but has not yet been determined, started “in a garage-level electrical room,” according to facility owner Fisher Communications, and “disrupted power […]

Facebook will generate about $500 million in revenue in 2009, on its way to earning billions, entrepreneur and Netscape founder Marc Andreessen said in a July 6 interview with Reuters. “This calendar year they’ll do over $500 million,” Andreessen told the wire service. “There’s every reason to expect in my view that the thing can […]

Microsoft plans to push Internet Explorer 8, the newest version of its Web browser, into the enterprise on Aug. 25, as part of its Windows Server Update Services. Internet Explorer 8 will be installed automatically on supported enterprise computers running Internet Explorer 6 and 7 “if your organization uses WSUS and has it configured to […]

Microsoft‘s share of the browser market has fallen in the past year, at least when it comes to Internet Explorer 6 and 7, according to a report by StatCounter. At the same time, however, the market share for Internet Explorer 8 has picked up in the past five months, with some 15.4 percent by the […]

Mozilla will rush out a patch to its Firefox 3.5 browser to correct a number of bugs that users have cited as causing them issues. The patch, if it proceeds on schedule, will be released later in July. The patched version will be named Firefox 3.5.1 and include a fix to the browser’s JavaScript engine, […]

10 Must-See iPhone Apps for Doctors and Patients by Nicholas Kolakowski Name: MedCodes-09 Cost: $99.99 This app, directly aimed at the medical community, offers up the complete 2009 medical database for ICD-9, CPT and HCPS codes, along with Global periods for CPT from the AMA “for all medical specialties.” Search can be done using single […]

Microsoft is officially ending its Windows Live Butterfly program, which let a select group of testers poke and prod at the newest Microsoft products in beta before public release. The company announced the shutdown of the program, previously known as MSN Butterfly, on July 1. “Rather than continue the program as something only focused on […]