Nicholas Kolakowski

Nokia‘s Ovi Store found itself plagued with issues after launching worldwide on May 26, a fact Nokia blamed on a deluge of traffic from users looking to download applications for their mobile devices. By the second day, however, most of the issues seemed to have been ironed out, and Nokia defended its performance in a […]

Salesforce.com announced a new version of Force.com for the Google App Engine, a set of tools and services for developers to build applications using cloud-based resources, on May 27. The new application allows developers to avoid relying on on-premises infrastructure to create new Web-based applications by letting them pull down real-time cloud computing resources from […]

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz suggested during a May 27 interview at the seventh annual D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, Calif., that she would sell Yahoo’s search apparatus to Microsoft in exchange for a massive amount of cold, hard cash. In an interview with technology columnist Kara Swisher, Bartz said that Yahoo would sell […]

Good Technology announced May 27 that it has acquired Intercasting, which focuses on connectivity for mobile social networking. The two companies did not disclose the specific dollar amount of the deal. Good Technology, a name doubtlessly familiar to many people who send messages using Palm Treos and other mobile handsets, provides a platform for mobile […]

Days after rejecting an e-reader from its App Store on the grounds that it could potentially download the Kama Sutra, a classical text with some sexual content, Apple relented and made the app, named Eucalyptus, available to users. The app lets users search for classical, rights-free texts and download them from the Project Gutenberg’s database, […]

Microsoft has made available stand-alone installers for Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008, available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Updates include native support for Blu-ray burning and refinements to the Wi-Fi configuration. The Vista SP2 installation requires that the user already have Vista SP1. The release features support for five languages: English, […]

Google Android will be loaded onto an HTC-produced smartphone for the Chinese market in June, according to a report published in The Wall Street Journal on May 26. The Journal report added that HTC will load the Android mobile operating system onto a version of its Magic phone and that the device will likely retail […]

Rampant rumors have Apple releasing a Mac Tablet computer with multitouch capability within the next year. Such a release has the potential to challenge many competing companies in both the PC and mobile device markets. If the rumors of the tablet’s capabilities prove true, there is also potential for it to challenge Amazon.com‘s increasing lucrative […]

On May 19, the Air Force Space Command jumped on the Twitter bandwagon for a press conference designed to soothe the media outcry over the potential failure of the GPS system, which allows devices to determine location with pinpoint accuracy. Much of the uproar came as a result of a May 7 GAO (Government Accountability […]

Yahoo has integrated a voice-search capability into its Yahoo Mobile for iPhone App, allowing users to search by speech for everything from restaurant listings to movie times. The voice search feature can be activated by pressing the “Press + Speak” bar on the App’s screen. A red bar will appear with the words, “Listening…Tap when […]