Nicholas Kolakowski

Google announced on March 17 the newest beta release of Google Chrome, its Web browser. This beta has been released, the company says, with the intention of drawing feedback on its new features. Since Chrome initially rolled out in September 2008, Google has strived to make its Web browser unique in the market, including features […]

Twitter found itself used yet again as a tool for political buzz, as Sen. John McCain and George Stephanopoulos used the messaging service in an interview that covered much of the day’s news. Like Google‘s YouTube, blogging and other technology tools, Twitter has found use among politicians seeking to extend their brand out to the […]

Microsoft‘s Windows Azure, an enterprise-capable cloud platform that will eventually go head-to-head against Google Apps, experienced a 22-hour outage between March 13 and 14 that left users unable to access the early test release’s applications from Friday through Saturday night.During that time, users received messages describing applications as “stopped” or “initializing.”Despite the need for cloud […]

Yahoo announced the release of a new Facebook application, Friends on Fire, designed to let acquaintances see your real-time location on a map (you’ll be able to see their locations, as well). The service seems designed to compete with Google Latitude, a geo-location service that also lets users share graphical real-time location with contacts. Friends […]

Apple iPhone OS 3.0 will include a copy-and-paste feature, according to Digg.com founder Kevin Rose during a Q&A session at the South By Southwest 2009 conference in Austin, Texas. Rose, who apparently got the information from a “friend who was right before,” said that copy-and-paste will be revealed as part of the iPhone OS 3.0 […]

The number of people using their mobile devices to access online news and other information on a daily basis is rising sharply, according to a report issued March 16 by marketing research firm comScore. Between January 2008 and January 2009, the number of people who used their devices every day more than doubled, from 10.8 […]

Cisco Systems has announced the launch of its Unified Computing System, an ecosystem that will incorporate a new blade server and the VMware virtualization platform. Cisco’s announcement positions the company to compete against IBM and Hewlett-Packard in the enterprise data center space. Cisco’s other partners in the venture include Intel, Accenture, Microsoft, SAP, EMC, Red […]

Mozilla is rolling out the 3.1 beta of its popular Firefox Web browser March 12. The new version of the open-source browser is intended for developers and testers for evaluation and feedback, but Firefox nonetheless claims that the beta release is stable. While Microsoft Internet Explorer has a double-digit lead over Firefox with regard to […]

Former Google executive Tim Armstrong will become the new chairman and CEO of AOL, said AOL’s parent company Time Warner in a statement issued on March 12.Armstrong, who was a member of Google’s Operating Committee and served as president of the search giant’s Americas Operations, will replace AOL Chairman and CEO Randy Falco, who is […]

Google announced on March 11 the release of Google Voice, an application that provides phone-related services such as automated voice mail transcription, SMS text-messaging storage and a single number for all of an individual user’s various phones. Google has been rapidly expanding into new areas outside of its traditional search engine business, experimenting with everything […]

Yahoo announced two new features for SearchMonkey and Facebook. The new updates to SearchMonkey allow a site designer with flash video, games, spreadsheets or presentations embedded on their page to add lines of code that will make their page appear as an enhanced result in Yahoo’s search results. In other words, if a site administrator […]

Sprint Nextel, which has exclusive U.S. rights through the end of 2009 to sell Palm’s upcoming Pre touch-screen smartphone, announced its individual, family and business plans for the device. The Palm Pre is intended to help long-suffering Palm compete against Research In Motion’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone. Sprint plans on offering individual, family and business […]