Nicholas Kolakowski

Twitter announced in an April 1 blog posting that it is revising its newly released search engine. In its original configuration, the search bar existed on the upper part of the user’s homepage, and typing in a search query would lead users to results on a separate page. With the new version of Twitter search, […]

NEW YORK-Intel developed its Nehalem-based 5500 series Xeon microprocessors with input from the financial industry, whose increasingly complex models of the world’s markets have demanded a corresponding rise in computing power, according to Intel executives during a presentation at Nasdaq headquarters off Times Square. Xeon microprocessors have already been integrated into a number of upcoming […]

Google has launched a new feature through its Gmail Labs called Search Autocomplete, which brings to e-mail what already exists for the company’s generalized search: the ability to see a real-time list of possible target terms after typing just a few letters in Gmail’s search bar. “One of the most popular searches in Gmail is […]

Intel, GE Will Partner for Health Care IT, Invest $250 Million by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title Intel CEO Paul Otellini details the joint partnership between Intel and General Electric as GE CEO Jeff Immelt looks on. The two companies will invest $250 million over the next five years in a joint effort to develop and […]

Google unleashed its latest April Fools’ Day pranks on a mostly suspecting nation, continuing an annual tradition that extends back nearly a decade. This year, the search-engine giant took a page from classic science-fiction literature and “introduced” CADIE, which stands for “Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity.” Billed as the world’s first artificial-intelligence tasked-array system, CADIE had […]

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on March 31 pulled the plug on Wikia Search, a community-based search engine that relied on user participation to rank results.“While I personally believe in the opportunity for free software to make serious inroads into the search space, our project, Wikia Search, has not been enjoying the kind of success that […]

Microsoft introduced six new applications for government and education, ranging from public-records tracking to student information systems, under the moniker Public Sector On-Demand Solutions. They will be powered by Microsoft Dynamics CRM. According to the company, the deployment of cloud-based solutions will allow the government and education sectors, continually strapped for cash in the current […]

Yahoo made a number of mobile-related announcements at the 2009 CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, including the introduction of Yahoo Mobile application for Apple’s iPhone in eight countries and a preview of the company’s second iPhone application for users in the United States. Yahoo sees its array of developing mobile features as vital in […]

Adobe Systems has made its open-source ActionScript 3 Client Library available for the Facebook Platform, opening the latter even more to developers. Through the library, more than 60 free APIs are available as of March 31, allowing developers to combine Adobe’s Flash platform technologies into applications built for Facebook. Flash allows for the building of […]

Microsoft will be shutting down Encarta, that boon to high school researchers everywhere, by the end of 2009. The encyclopedia, which started in 1993, was having difficulty competing as a model against the collaborative online encyclopedias offered by Wikipedia and Google. The last version of the digital encyclopedia was Encarta Premium 2009, which according to […]

Google announced the creation of Google Ventures on March 30, a venture capital fund designed to invest in startups across the technology spectrum. By doing so, Google joins Intel and other companies in establishing a venture-capital arm for investment in smaller firms with potential. Google already has a philanthropic arm, Google.org, that has focused on […]

Google has announced that it will be working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on a pilot program that will let Medicare beneficiaries in Arizona and Utah import their claims data into Google Health. Google recently enabled users of Google Health to share their medical records and other personal health information with trusted […]