Nicholas Kolakowski

Oracle updated its solution for transportation networks, one of the more complex real-world enterprise-related activities, with Oracle Transportation Management 6.0. The solution, the next major update after the release of version 5.5 in May 2006, is intended to provide single-application functionality for transportation-network planning, execution, payment and process automation; it is designed to be scalable, […]

SAP has expanded the reach of its SAP BusinessObjects Edge solutions, now allowing small to midsize businesses to utilize its SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI (business intelligence) software. In turn, those smaller companies will now have access to SAP BusinessObjects Polestar software, an application that allows information search and retrieval from across an organization. SAP BusinessObjects […]

Google has equipped the new version of Gmail for Mobile, rolling out on April 7, with technologies that will theoretically allow it to run faster on both the Apple iPhone and on mobile devices equipped with Google’s Android Web browser. The Android operating system is making an appearance on an increased number of smartphones, including […]

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone hinted in a corporate blog posting that his company had indeed been talking to Google about a possible acquisition. “It should come as no surprise that Twitter engages in discussions with other companies regularly and on a variety of subjects,” Stone said in an April 3 posting on the official Twitter […]

Oracle is continuing in its healthy cycle of acquisitions and product launches, despite the recession, with the April 6 release of a new series of solutions for its Oracle Application Integration Architecture business. The new releases are an updated Oracle AIA Foundation Pack 2.3, a new Oracle AIA Foundation Pack for Communications, and six out-of-the-box […]

Microsoft claims that Windows runs on 96 percent of the mininotebooks known as netbooks that currently constitute one of the fastest-growing segments of the IT hardware industry. Hardware companies such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Asustek Computer have all plunged into manufacturing netbooks, which are compact units that trade weight and computing power for connectivity and […]

Google‘s recent and far-flung attempt to digitize the world’s “orphan” books, or out-of-print tomes that remain under copyright but whose rights-holders cannot be found, may soon hit a roadblock in the form of the U.S. Department of Justice, at least if a consumer group gets its wish. John Simpson, a consumer advocate for Consumer Watchdog, […]

The online world has been positively abuzz with news of a potential Google acquisition of Twitter. While the blog TechCrunch has quoted sources as saying such a deal is imminent, others, such as BoomTown, say such talk is the purest speculation. In either case, however, a big question presents itself: how an acquisition of Twitter […]

Google may acquire Twitter, according to reports circulating online, but how would it benefit from such an acquisition?On TechCrunch, Michael Arrington wrote that “two separate people close to the negotiations” had told him that Google was jockeying to acquire the microblogging site, which lets users post “tweets” of up to 140 characters. Twitter previously declined […]

Google marked April Fools’ Day 2009 by unveiling CADIE, a Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity that proceeded to leave its panda- and animation-loving imprint on Gmail and other Google properties.But CADIE, billed as the world’s first artificial intelligence tasked-array system, left behind a secret message, as well.On the Google Code Blog, members of the Google Developer […]

Google Maps and its Street View feature, in which users can see a locale at eye level, met unexpected resistance April 1 from group of British villagers who formed a human chain to turn away a car shooting images for Street View. The minor disagreement over online privacy issues arose in Broughton, a hamlet in […]

NEW YORK – Intel and General Electric will invest $250 million over the next five years in a joint partnership to develop health care IT technologies. The resulting products will be aimed at chronic disease management and assisting independent living for seniors. GE’s Healthcare division will sell and market the Intel Health Guide, a compact […]