Nicholas Kolakowski

San Francisco has signed a contract to port 23,000 municipal employees’ email to Microsoft’s cloud. The transition to Microsoft Exchange Online will continue over the next year, and involve employees from around 60 departments and agencies. City executives on a May 18 conference call suggested that the initiative would cost $1.2 million per year, which […]

SAP is seeking to leverage its mobile assets as a way forward amidst strong competition from Oracle, Microsoft and other enterprise software competitors. That was the news out of the Sapphire Now conference in Orlando, Fla., this week. Amazon Web Services and SAP have partnered to deliver the latter’s enterprise solutions on demand via the […]

Refresh HPs new notebooks include the HP ProBook 5330m, which embraces the companys recent brushed-aluminum design language and consumer-centric features such as Beats Audio. Aluminum HPs laptops aluminum frames: A bit tougher than plastic, and certainly more fingerprint-resistant. HP DataPass In a bid to increase the connectivity of its devices, HP is introducing HP DataPass, […]

Late in 2010, Microsoft sought to position Windows Phone 7 as a consumer device-a smartphone sleek as the Apple iPhone or Google Android. Advertisements emphasized the baked-in Xbox Live and Zune services. Windows Phone 7 had the “Office” Hub, with easy access to the mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint. But that consumer […]

Apple is prepping for a major product unveiling this weekend, according to reports. If this proves accurate, the event would mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the company’s first retail store. The first pair of Apple stores opened on a Saturday, May 19, 2001, in Glendale, Calif., and the Tysons Corner mall in […]

Microsoft’s Bing really likes Facebook. Bing likes Facebook so much, in fact, that the search engine now bakes the social network’s “Like” button more deeply into its results. “Decisions don’t get made on rationality alone,” Bing director Stefan Weitz told eWEEK in an interview earlier in May. “People ask other people for information. Eighty percent […]

New reports suggest the next-generation iPhone will indeed feature an edge-to-edge screen and a shifted camera flash. Those reports stem from an “iPhone 5G” case offered on Chinese manufacturer Kulcase’s Alibaba.com Website, which was noticed by Electronista and subsequently picked up by Apple-centric blogs such as Apple Insider. The mockup for this “newest design crystal […]

Facebook Info When users search for a specific person, Bing will now present Facebook information on the search-results page. Bing Bar The Bing Bar will also include a universal Like button, capable of tagging any Website—even those without Facebook buttons in the layout.??í??í Postings Bing will also present companies and brands Facebook postings, alerting users […]

Customers of Microsoft’s BPOS service last week found themselves cut off from email. On May 10, malformed email traffic sparked a growing message backlog that impacted some customers for up to six to nine hours. The issue occurred again May 12, compounded by a separate but related problem that led to customer delays as long […]

As it turns out, people really are willing to sit through ads-at least if they come attached to a cheaper e-reader. Amazon’s ad-supported Kindle device, which comes $25 cheaper than the WiFi-only unsponsored version at $139, has taken first position on the online retailer’s list of bestselling electronics. The Kindle 3G retails for $189. Amazon […]

Operating-system issues have apparently affected a tiny subset of Research In Motion’s PlayBook tablets, according to online reports. “Approximately 900 units of the BlackBerry PlayBook have been determined to be faulty,” reads an internal memo circulating among Staples stores, posted May 14 by Engadget. “The vendor has provided the serial numbers so that we can […]

It’s an increasingly mobile world. The rise of smartphones and tablets has ushered in an era of “the PC in your pocket,” and each succeeding device seems to cram more and more memory and processing power into a smaller and smaller form-factor. Within this context, what use is the traditional desktop? Placed side-by-side with the […]