Nicholas Kolakowski

Google Maps and its Street View feature, in which users can see a locale at eye level, met unexpected resistance April 1 from group of British villagers who formed a human chain to turn away a car shooting images for Street View. The minor disagreement over online privacy issues arose in Broughton, a hamlet in […]

NEW YORK – Intel and General Electric will invest $250 million over the next five years in a joint partnership to develop health care IT technologies. The resulting products will be aimed at chronic disease management and assisting independent living for seniors. GE’s Healthcare division will sell and market the Intel Health Guide, a compact […]

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 […]