Nicholas Kolakowski

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz suggested June 3 that a long-rumored search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo would save her company between $500 million and $700 million, mostly in staff reductions and data center cutbacks. However, Bartz also used her podium at the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch U.S. Technology Conference in New York on […]

Google launched a free dashboard June 2 for its Local Business Center application, which allows small and midsize business owners to drill down into customer traffic patterns, letting them see what sorts of Google queries are most effective in attracting business. “The LBC is a free tool that enables business owners to control the content […]

Google has added .docx and .xlsx to the list of file formats it accepts for uploading on Google Docs, its cloud-based application that stores a user’s documents in the cloud. Google Docs already accepts documents in .doc, .odt, .xls, .ods, .ppt, .csv, .html, .txt and .rtf formats, among others. In order to import a .docx […]

Microsoft Bing Offers Search Variety, Challenges Google With the June 1 launch of its new search engine, Bing, Microsoft is attempting to claim more market share in the competitive search-engine arena, where it sits in third place behind Google and Yahoo. According to a ComScore report, Microsoft held 8.2 percent of the U.S. core search […]

Acer announced June 1 that it would produce a mininotebook, or netbook, that runs the Google Android mobile operating system. The devices will ship in the third quarter of 2009, and seem to herald the long-predicted jump by Android from smartphones to netbooks. However, even as it ports Android onto netbooks, Acer will continue to […]

Microsoft announced June 2 that Windows 7, the operating system designed to replace Windows Vista, will roll out for general commercial availability on Oct. 22. Bill Veghte, senior vice president for Microsoft Windows, was quoted in a June 2 Wall Street Journal article as saying, “We feel confident that we will deliver Windows 7 with […]

Google plans to sell eBooks through its sites by the end of 2009, the company announced at the annual BookExpo convention in New York. By opening eBooks to be sold and then ported onto a variety of electronic devices, Google puts itself in competition with Amazon.com, which has dominated the news with its line of […]

Microsoft decided to launch its new search engine, Bing, a full two days earlier than expected. Originally intended to roll out worldwide on June 3, the engine was available to users by June 1. In addition to providing a page of hyperlinks in response to a query, typical of traditional search, Bing also allows users […]

Oracle announced the release of a new version of Oracle Warehouse Management June 1. The scalable application allows users to manage complex warehouse operations, including multiple supply chain processes and materials management functionality. A version of the application had previously only been available to customers using the Oracle E-Business Suite. In its new and more […]

Wikipedia, after a period of protracted debate, has made the decision to ban any site edits originating from IP addresses associated with the Church of Scientology. The final vote by Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee was 10-to-0 in favor of a ban, with one member abstaining. The committee examined whether members of the Church of Scientology and […]

Amazon.com announced on June 1 that the Kindle DX will begin shipping to customers on June 10. At the same time, the company also stated that the Kindle store’s library had expanded to over 290,000 volumes. In a Q&A session following the company’s annual shareholders meeting on May 28, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos refused to […]

When the Palm Pre finally makes its much-anticipated rollout on June 6, it will directly challenge high-profile smartphones from competitors ranging from Apple’s iPhone to Research In Motion’s BlackBerry line. If an early review posted on The Boy Genius Report is any indication, Palm has delivered a solid entry to the smartphone market with some […]