Nicholas Kolakowski

MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe will step down from his role “in the near future,” according to the social-networking site’s parent corporation, News Corp. A press release issued by the company said that DeWolfe would continue to serve as both a strategic adviser and board member of MySpace China. Tom Anderson, president of MySpace, would be […]

Amazon Kindle 2 costs $185.49 in materials and manufacturing costs, says an April 22 report by iSuppli Corp.’s Teardown Analysis Service. Actual materials cost for the eReader device is $176.83, with an additional $8.66 from manufacturing expenses and battery. The company’s analysis did not include costs of intellectual property, royalties, licensing fees or elements such […]

The Mozilla Foundation posted a “critical” security advisory on April 21, stating that crashes of certain Mozilla products had revealed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances. Mozilla cautions that this corruption could be exploited to run arbitrary code. The affected Mozilla products included Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey. The stability bugs have already been fixed […]

If the ticker on Apple’s Website proves accurate, the billionth App from Apple‘s App Store will be downloaded in the early hours of April 23. At 5:00 p.m. on April 22, a MarketWatch update had Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer saying the 1 billion mark was “hours” away. Apple also announced its quarterly results, including iPhone […]

LiveOps released the Spring 09 edition of its LiveOps On-Demand Contact Center Platform on April 21. The new edition is designed to increase productivity of enterprise contact centers with new administration capabilities and legacy contact center integration. LiveOps runs virtual call centers for business clients. The Spring 09 edition of the On-Demand Contact Center Platform […]

Microsoft joined together with the Mayo Clinic to launch Mayo Clinic Health Manager, an online application built on Microsoft’s HealthVault technology that will allow patients to store medical information and “receive individualized health guidance and recommendations based on the clinical expertise of Mayo Clinic,” according to a statement issued by both organizations. Users will be […]

Stephen Hawking was admitted to a Cambridge hospital April 20 in “very ill” condition related to a chest infection. According to a statement issued by Cambridge University, the famous physicist is now comfortable, “and his family is looking forward to him making a full recovery.” Hawking is perhaps most famous for his bestselling book “A […]

Omniture, creator of online business optimization software, is releasing a new version of Omniture SiteCatalyst that allows users to measure the spread of viral video across video-sharing sites. SiteCatalyst is a component of the company’s previous release, the Omniture Online Marketing Suite, which also includes several applications such as Visitor Acquisition Applications, designed to streamline […]

Yahoo plans on slicing 5 percent of its global work force as part of its efforts to streamline the search engine company and reverse its fortunes. According to its latest quarterly report, Yahoo took a beating from the recession, reporting revenues of 1.58 billion for the first quarter of 2009, down 13 percent from the […]

Google will begin displaying Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages, with the results linking to the user’s full Google profile. Someone searching for a name using the popular search engine can now read through profile information posted by people with that name. Typing “Me” into the main Google search page […]