Nicholas Kolakowski

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 […]

NEW YORK-Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced the release of the Kindle 2 electronic reader at the Morgan Library and Museum, one of the nation’s most iconic depositories of paper-based books. With a starting price of $359, the Kindle 2 comes out 14 months after the original Kindle made its debut. A reading by horror-book maestro […]

Exclusive: Stephen King Helps Launch Amazon Kindle 2 in NYC by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title Jeff Bezos takes the stage at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York to announce the release of the Kindle 2 electronic reader starting at $359. No Title Device navigation happens via a five-way controller. The Kindle 2 is […]

Midsize businesses too financially squeezed to keep an environmental consultant on retainer could be helped in the quest to become environmentally friendly by the launch of the Environmental Sustainability Dashboard for Microsoft Dynamics AX. Creating environmentally friendly or green IT infrastructure has been an increasing focus as companies come under regulatory pressure to reduce their […]

Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out five new Phenom II processors for high-end desktops and gaming PCs, including a set of energy-efficient tri-core and quad-core chips that AMD seems intent on positioning against the Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 and the Core 2 Quad Q8200. The rollout, announced Feb. 9, comes at a time when […]

On Feb. 6, two days after Facebook’s fifth birthday, the social networking service announced new APIs for its Facebook Platform, allowing developers to access content and methods for sharing for Facebook Status, Notes, Links and Video. This follows the launch of APIs for uploading and viewing via Facebook Photos, and allows developers to create new […]

On Feb. 5, Facebook announced that it would join Google, IBM, Microsoft, PayPal, VeriSign and Yahoo as a corporate board member of the OpenID Foundation, an organization formed in June 2007 to promote an open framework for user-centric digital identities on the Web. Facebook joins two months after its Facebook Connect, which enables users to […]