Nicholas Kolakowski

Microsoft has reached an arrangement with Intuit that allows users of the soon-to-shut-down Microsoft Money application to port their financial data over to Intuit’s Quicken, a similar financial management tool. Since Microsoft announced that Money will no longer be offered after June 30, users have been voicing concern to eWEEK that their Money data, some […]

One music fan out there could be paying $80,000 for a Green Day track-whether she likes it or not. The Recording Industry Association of America won a major victory June 18 in Minnesota federal court, which ruled that Jammie Thomas-Rasset was guilty of copyright violation for downloading 24 songs using the Kazaa file-sharing network. The […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, speaking at the Executive’s Club of Chicago on June 18, suggested that his company may have been a little late to the game with regard to search; publicly, however, he seemed confident that Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, could make a solid effort against arch-rivals Google and Yahoo in the search-engine […]

Microsoft and NBC Universal will collaborate to sell broadcast and cable advertising using the former’s Admira television media marketplace, in a deal announced on June 18. Admira aggregates data from across multiple systems and then marries that to both purchase and geo-demographic data, allowing advertisers and agencies to pinpoint specific audiences for ads. The system […]

The free Sirius XM application for the Apple iPhone includes around 120 channels of music and talk, including CNN and Fox News Talk. However, radio fans of Howard Stern, MLB Play-by-Play, Sirius NASCAR Radio and certain other channels will be disappointed, as the free app does not include them in its lineup. For iPhone users, […]

Microsoft‘s new search engine, Bing, may have gained market-share during its first few weeks of release, but Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sees a long road ahead for the application as it attempts to challenge Google. “We have had some very good initial response,” Ballmer said during the National Summit in Detroit on June 17, according […]

Microsoft‘s new search engine, Bing, performed strongly in its second week of release, according to research firm comScore, which saw its daily penetration among U.S. searchers increase by 3 percentage points to 16.7 percent. During that period, which extended from June 8-12, Microsoft’s share of search result pages in the U.S. increased 12.1 percent, also […]

Microsoft‘s share of the search engine market dropped in May, before the release of Bing, according to a June 16 report issued by research firm Nielsen. The report suggested that the number of people conducting online searches via Microsoft’s sites dropped by 14.6 percent year-over-year. By contrast, year-over-year growth for Yahoo and Google reached 22.3 […]

Dell announced a variety of business-centric products and services on June 17, primarily servers and consulting offerings designed to make the creation of data centers, and the implementation of virtualization, a more efficient task for the enterprise and SMBs alike. The company’s small-to-midsize-business offerings include the EqualLogic PS4000 storage array and the PowerVault NX3000 NAS […]

Dells Newest Servers Make Their Debut by Nicholas Kolakowski PowerEdge T710 This high-performance tower features Intel Xeon 5500 series processors, embedded hypervisors, expanded memory and I/O. It also aspires to be energy-efficient, with power management features such as power budgeting, and includes a “robust fan cage design with a single pull fan module” to improve […]

Microsoft is mulling the fate of Soapbox, the user-generated video Website it launched via its MSN portal in December 2006 to compete with YouTube and similar online offerings. Microsoft issued a statement to eWEEK through a spokesperson on June 17 stating that Microsoft was “currently evaluating what the Soapbox brand means to MSN and how […]

Apple‘s iPhone OS 3.0 is expected to roll out on June 17, with new features for both end users and developers. The update will presumably help Apple compete in an increasingly crowded market against Research In Motion’s BlackBerry, Google’s Android, and Palm’s Pre. The Apple iPhone OS 3.0 includes more than 100 new features, many […]