Nicholas Kolakowski

Research In Motion and Lenovo on Feb. 16 announced a partnership to create mobile solutions for business travelers, starting with Lenovo Constant Connect, which syncs e-mail between a user’s RIM BlackBerry smartphone and Lenovo ThinkPad laptop.The retail price point for Constant Connect has been set at $150. The technology will be available in the United […]

At Amazon.com‘s Kindle 2 launch at the Morgan Library and Museum on Feb. 9, CEO Jeff Bezos highlighted a new feature for the Kindle electronic reader: text-to-speech. It’s good news for anyone who wants a document read to him or her in an electronic voice, but according to The Authors Guild it also potentially violates […]

Efficiency is the name of the road map game for enterprise networking in 2009, at least according to one Cisco Systems executive. “Today, you get servers from one company, SAN from another, and then IT pays their employees and contractors to assemble it – and only once it’s assembled can you move workload to it […]

The World Mobile Congress conference, which kicks off Feb. 16 in Barcelona, Spain, will definitely see the debut of two new smartphones from a pair of up-and-coming IT vendors: Garmin and Asus. On Feb. 12, Asus, which is better known for its Eee PC mininotebook, and Garmin, which has made a name for itself in […]

Google announced in a Feb. 12 blog posting that it was closing down its Google Audio Ads and AdSense for Audio projects and selling its Google Radio Automation business, in order to focus on delivering ads for online streaming audio. Google’s exit from the broadcast radio business comes almost three years to the day after […]

Yahoo has announced a few updates to the Yahoo Search BOSS API that could prove useful to developers looking to boost how the search giant ranks their Web sites. BOSS, which stands for Build Your Own Search Service, is an open-search Web services platform, produced by Yahoo, that allows developers to create their own search […]

The pain in the worldwide PC microprocessor market will continue through the first half of 2009, which will continue to have a serious impact on Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, according to a report issued Feb. 11 by IDC. Overall, PC processor unit shipments declined worldwide by 17 percent quarter-over-quarter, and 11.4 percent year-over-year, in […]

NEW YORK-Research In Motion rolled out its new BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0, code-named Argon, at a presentation here Feb. 11.The server, upgraded from Version 4.1.6, has been running in production mode at RIM for over two years and with early adopter users for over a year. BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 will be generally available starting […]

Following weeks of back-and-forth negotiations, Certicom agreed to an acquisition by Research In Motion, which had engaged in a sometimes-fierce bidding war with VeriSign over the Canadian security hardware and software maker. The deal between RIM and Certicom was approved Feb. 10, but a joint statement made no mention of when it would finalize. In […]

Intel plans to invest $7 billion over the next two years to build and update its U.S. manufacturing facilities in order to ramp up production for the company’s new line of 32-nanometer processors – a vital component for the still-growing “netbook” market as well as for future generations of desktops, laptops and servers. Intel’s investment […]

Intel unveiled its new 32-nanometer working microprocessor for laptops and desktops at a Feb. 10 event in San Francisco. The chip giant said it plans to invest $7 billion over the next two years in its 32-nm manufacturing technology, upgrading production facilities in New Mexico, Arizona, and Oregon. Intel CEO Paul Otellini announced the plan […]