Nicholas Kolakowski

The Wall Street Journal released a free Apple iPhone App that features breaking news, video, radio podcasts and customized navigation. The price point will perhaps come as a surprise to Journal readers already paying more than $100 per year for an online subscription to the paper. A similar free application already exists for the BlackBerry, […]

Twitter grew 131 percent in March 2009, with its total site visitors cresting at 9.3 million, up from 4.3 million in February. The microblogging site, which lets its users post “tweets” of 140 characters or less on any particular topic, has been embraced by general users and the enterprise as a supple social networking tool. […]

Google reported revenues of $5.51 billion for the first quarter of 2009, which represents a 6 percent increase over first-quarter 2008 revenues-but also represents a 3 percent decline from fourth-quarter 2008 revenues of $5.70 billion. “You look at the economic situation, we’re still in uncharted territory,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt said during an April 16 […]

Microsoft released its public beta of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 on April 15. The latest version of Exchange, according to Microsoft, has been “built from the ground up to work on-premises and as an online service.” Exchange 2010 introduces an integrated e-mail archive and a variety of user-facing features, and will be available in the […]

Google Chief Philanthropic Officer Dr. Larry Brilliant is resigning his position to become president of the Skoll Urgent Threats Fund, a $100 million endeavor founded by former eBay President Jeff Skoll to tackle major issues such as climate change, nuclear proliferation, Middle East conflict and water scarcity. The Urgent Threats Fund, as conceived by Skoll, […]

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft continued to lead the core online search market in the U.S. in March 2009, according to a report issued by research firm ComScore. The report found that Americans conducted some 14.3 billion core searches in March, a 9 percent gain over February 2009. Some 9.1 billion of those searches were done […]

10 iPhone Apps for IT Administrators by Nicholas Kolakowski Name: Network AdminCost: $5.99This App keeps a record of all clients’ network configurations, and allows those records to be shared with technicians and managers (the information itself is protected by 128-bit AES encryption using a private key, and is accessible with the entering of a four-digit […]

SAP and Oracle could have a new competitor in their space: NetSuite, which reportedly plans on expanding the reach of its applications beyond traditional small and midsize businesses to target the enterprise.Called SuiteCloud Connect, the new NetSuite cloud-based applications would theoretically allow corporate subsidiaries to run operations using NetSuite software, before sending the financial data […]

Google is allowing developers an early look at the SDK for Version 1.5 of the Google Android platform. Based on the “cupcake” branch of the Android Open Source project, this new version includes APIs for a number of new features, including home screen widgets and speech recognition. Developers can download the Android 1.5 “Early Look” […]

Twitter is finally clear of a worm that hijacked user accounts and spread spamlike messages reading “Mikeyy” throughout the microblogging site’s network. Dubbed “StalkDaily,” the Twitter worm unleashed four waves of attacks against the service, in each case exploiting a cross-site scripting vulnerability. The only goal of the malware seemed to be self-propagation; it had […]