Nicholas Kolakowski

First Look: Large-Screen Amazon Kindle DX Debuts in New York No Title Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos personally unveils the newest and largest-screened Kindle eReader device, the Kindle DX, in a presentation at Pace University. No Title Kindle eBook sales now account for some 35 percent of Amazon’s total book sales, according to Bezos, who suggested […]

NEW YORK-Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos launched a new Kindle eReader device, the Kindle DX, during a May 6 presentation at Pace University’s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, a building constructed on the site of the 19th-century headquarters of The New York Times. That particular detail turned out to be especially notable given that Amazon […]

President Obama’s plans for public outreach by the executive branch reached a new level with the announcement that the White House will soon have more social-networking accounts than a 14-year-old kid, including Twitter, Facebook and MySpace pages. In an April 25 address, President Obama suggested that, “To help build a new foundation for the 21st […]

Google plans on releasing a new tool-Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server-that allows users access to their Google apps, including Gmail and Google Calendar, through integrated BlackBerry smartphone applications. The Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server will be available, for free, to all Google Apps Premier and Education Edition customers come July; it […]

Microsoft launched its Windows 7 Release Candidate late on May 4, months before the final rollout of its next-generation operating system. The Release Candidate features several small tweaks over the beta version, particularly in the areas of security and tuning. Microsoft has been pushing Windows 7 particularly hard through a variety of push marketing, end-user […]

Top 10 Killer Google Labs Apps for Enterprise Google Trends This Labs application allows users to view how often a particular term (such as “Microsoft Windows 7”) has been searched for, what media outlets are mentioning it, and the regions, cities and languages citing it most often. Useful for gauging how well a product or […]

Google found opposition to its Google Book Search from yet another quarter on May 4: Librarians are arguing that the search engine giant could potentially monopolize the digital book world and violate readers’ privacy rights. The American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Association of Libraries voiced their concerns in […]

Even as enterprises look to cut IT costs and streamline processes, Oracle and SAP have introduced updates to their business-applications portfolios designed to simplify day-to-day business operations. Oracle released Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 on May 4, with added functionality for business fields such as Wholesale Distribution, Public Sector, High Technology, Engineering and Construction, and Professional […]

IBM‘s DeveloperWorks site may be more than a decade old, but the IT giant has decided the old dog deserves to learn a few new tricks: now integrated into the resource are several new social-networking tools allowing designers to collaborate on open standards-based projects. DeveloperWorks includes tutorials, sample code, standards and other resources for open-standard […]

Research In Motion announced on May 4 that its BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 is now generally available. The server, which provides a central link between the company’s BlackBerry smartphones and enterprise systems, includes several IT administrator features designed to make enterprise mobility computing more flexible and robust. The announcement was made at RIM’s eighth annual […]