Nicholas Kolakowski

Utility companies worldwide have found themselves in a bit of a squeeze, as factors ranging from the need for electrical-grid modernization to the fluctuating cost of fuel have weighed down on their bottom lines. These utilities could soon find a little relief via a new software development cooperation agreement between SAP and Landis+Gyr. According to […]

Google‘s fifth update to its popular Google Earth software offers something for virtual tourists, planetary exploration enthusiasts and amateur oceanographers. Fans of seeing your favorite places from overhead-not to mention your favorite artwork-those high-resolution images are still there for your procrastinating pleasure. Available for free download from Google’s Web site, Google Earth 5.0 can plunge […]

Earlier today, we reported on Comcast’s trial introduction of Wi-Fi for New Jersey Transit commuters. More than 100 rail stations and parking lots are participating in the program, which is still in the early stages; Comcast customers, after signing in with their usernames and passwords, can surf at speeds of roughly 1.5 Megabits per second. […]

Comcast has rolled out an early test of a free Wi-Fi system for customers who use the New Jersey Transit system. According to news reports, some 100 rail stations and parking lots will become wireless hot spots, accessible to Comcast customers who sign in with their user names and passwords. Comcast spokesperson Mary Nell Westbrook […]

On the heels of this week’s news indicating that computer graphics chip shipments had been bludgeoned by the recession, a new Mercury Research report suggests that the overall x86 processor market, which includes notebook, desktop and server CPU shipments, has been similarly affected, declining 18 percent between the third and fourth quarter of 2008. The […]

In August 2008, Google Gmail and Google Apps experienced periods of downtime that had business users howling over the loss of both communication and applications. For some, that may have led to a bit of soul-searching over the viability of Google‘s Web-based applications as a foundation for an enterprise. But according to a Jan. 30 […]

With consumers and businesses cutting back on desktop and laptops purchases in an increasingly recessionary environment, the number of shipped graphics processing units dropped by 35 percent between the third and fourth quarters of 2008, from 111.26 million to 72.35 million, according to a new report. The Jan. 29 report from Jon Peddie Research also […]

Panasonic Toughbook Laptops Go for More Smarts, Visibility by Nick Kolakowski Power Under the Hood Both the Toughbook 30 and 19 feature between 2GB and 4GB of DDR2 (double data rate 2) RAM and a 160GB SATA (Serial ATA) hard drive. The Toughbook 30 is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo SL9300 1.6GHz processor, […]

IBM announced Jan. 29 three multiyear agreements with global corporations to provide infrastructure and IT services on a worldwide scope. The moves could help bolster IBM Global Services, the company’s international business consulting and IT management division, whose 2008 revenues of $9.6 billion were down 4 percent from 2007. An eight-year agreement with Idea Cellular, […]

Cisco Systems’ purchase of Richards-Zeta Building Intelligence plays into the company’s “build, buy and partner” strategy for expanding rapidly into new markets and taking advantage of market transitions. Cisco and Richards-Zeta completed the deal Jan. 27. The enterprise networking giant did not disclose the financial details of its latest acquisition. As a scalable and open […]