Nicholas Kolakowski

Marathon Technologies is releasing two new products, EverRun VM Lockstep for Citrix XenServer, system-level, fault-tolerant software for virtual environments, and EverRun 2G, a software platform designed to expand upon the capabilities of two other company products, EverRun HA and EverRun FT. The company’s previous virtual environment solution was EverRun VM, software that worked with Citrix […]

Oracle‘s April 20 announcement that it plans to purchase Sun Microsystems, in a deal worth roughly $7.4 billion, or $9.50 a share, will create a multi-arena competitor to IBM and other IT giants such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Cisco Systems. IBM was reportedly in discussions to purchase Sun for $6.5 billion, potentially allowing Big Blue […]

Oracle announced that it would purchase Sun Microsystems in a deal worth $7.4 billion, or $9.50 a share, on April 20. The offer came weeks after a reported deal between IBM and Sun Microsystems, for $6.5 billion, collapsed. The acquisition would have allowed IBM to seize significant market share in the enterprise server hardware and […]

Google announced two new Google Labs features on its blog April 20: Similar Images and the Google News Timeline. Google’s Similar Images site can be found here. When a query is typed in a search bar, Google feeds the user a variety of images associated with the term. For example, typing in the term “jaguar” […]

Oracle‘s April 20 purchase of Sun Microsystems, in a deal worth $7.4 billion, is but the latest in the company’s long line of acquisitions. In 2009 alone, Oracle has initiated a round of buyouts that included mValent, a group that produces configuration management solutions, and Relsys International, which develops drug safety and risk management solutions. […]

Twitter, the popular microblogging site that lets users post “tweets” of 140 characters or less, has hit a new milestone: Actor Ashton Kutcher became, at 2:13 a.m. ET on April 17, the first Twitter user to have 1 million “followers” attached to their account. Kutcher beat CNN, with whom he was publicly racing to hit […]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt discussed Twitter during the search engine giant’s April 16 earnings call. The popular microblogging site, which lets users post 140-character “tweets” about their status in real time, was rumored to be in Google’s acquisition crosshairs earlier this month. “I think Twitter proves that innovation is alive and well in Silicon Valley, […]

Google executives used the company’s April 16 earnings call as a chance to talk about the expansion of Google Android, their open-source operating system for mobile devices, onto mini-notebooks, known popularly as “netbooks.” News has been flying for weeks about Google Android’s possible expansion beyond the smartphone world. A variety of IT companies, ranging from […]

Green, Clean Next-Generation Cars at 2009 New York Auto Show by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title The third-generation Prius hybrid vehicle has more “oomph” under the hood than previous iterations, with an expanded 1.8-liter engine, 160 hp and roughly 50 miles per gallon for combined city/highway driving. No Title The third-generation Prius will feature a full […]

Google is actively seeking a way to monetize YouTube, its popular streaming video site, which reports have pegged at costing the company hundreds of millions of dollars per year to maintain. An integral part of that process, as mentioned during Google’s April 16 earnings call, is bringing movie and music studios to the table to […]