Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft has responded to claims that Outlook 2010 will lack sufficient standards support. The accusations, originally leveled by a group called the Email Standards Project, centered on Microsoft’s plans to use the Word rendering engine to display HTML e-mails in its upcoming e-mail client. “This means for the next five years your e-mail designs will […]

Microsoft plans on cutting prices for its upcoming Windows 7 operating system as part of a massive and rapid worldwide rollout for the operating system, as it looks to both reverse its fortunes in the midst of an economic recession and erase memories of its much-maligned Vista operating system. As announced, Microsoft will sell Windows […]

Microsoft is releasing the beta version of Hohm, a new Website that allows consumers to track their homes’ energy consumption, with an eye toward reducing their power costs. Based on users’ input, the site will make calculations and recommendations about how the home’s energy power usage can be fine-tuned to save money. The site, which […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have saved his life with a liver transplant, but questions about his medical leave could continue to dog his company, even after a highly successful June that saw the rollout of the iPhone 3G S. As first reported in The Wall Street Journal on June 20, Jobs underwent the transplant […]

A Microsoft executive is predicting that mobile phone advertising space will grow significantly in coming years. However, past activity by certain watchdog groups suggests that a greater focus on advertising via smartphones and other devices could lead to increased pushback by public advocates. “Five years from now, mobile will be 5 to 10 percent of […]

One of the Recording Industry Association of America’s primary witnesses in its successful case against a Minnesota woman accused of illegally downloading music, a lawyer with Sony, reportedly said he was “shocked” at the size of the fine involved in the verdict handed down in the case. On June 18, a Minnesota federal court ruled […]

Four out of 10 smartphone users would switch to Apple‘s iPhone as their next device, according to a survey conducted by research company Crowd Science. By contrast, only 14 percent of those users would switch to a BlackBerry as their next phone, Crowd Science reported June 23. The online survey-the sample size was not mentioned […]

A new Microsoft-commissioned study by Harris Interactive into the recession’s effects on IT spending suggests that while the majority of IT professionals have given belt-tightening their highest priority, many also plan to increase their investments in virtualization, cloud computing and other tools to drive business efficiency. Of the four countries surveyed-the United States, Germany, Japan […]

Microsoft‘s share of paid clicks has been expanding in the two weeks following the release of Bing, its new search engine, according to an analysis conducted by search engine marketing company Efficient Frontier. Backed by an advertising budget reportedly in the $80 million to $100 million range, Bing combines traditional keyword search with the ability […]

Oracle announced the release of Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) 9.3, which offers advanced risk analysis along with a product lifecycle management backbone that incorporates a variety of applications designed to reduce costs and boost productivity, on June 22. On the risk analysis side, the application includes: Supplier Risk Analysis, which points out high-risk suppliers […]

Microsoft‘s upcoming Zune HD, the next generation of its iPod competitor, will feature Nvidia’s “Tegra” chip, representing something of a victory for the latter in its competition with Intel over processors for mobile devices. Both the Zune and Nvidia, however, face something of an uphill battle against their respective opponents, the iPod and Intel, which […]

With the economy somewhat stabilized but nonetheless still mired in recession, the impetus is on the enterprise to sell more and sell faster – which is why BigMachines has launched BigMachines 9.2, the new version of its software as a service to streamline the sales-side functionality of businesses. BigMachines 9.2 relies on that SAAS platform […]