Nicholas Kolakowski

Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites have risen from humble startup origins to redefine how 10s of millions of people communicate on a daily basis. Even the enterprise has started to embrace them as tools; Salesforce.com recently added Twitter to its Service Cloud, which already includes a Facebook application. Now that the form has […]

VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and other virtualization companies stand to benefit further from their virtualization solutions in coming years, at least according to a March 26 report by research firm Gartner, which said that the worldwide hosted virtual desktop market would accelerate through 2013. Hosted virtual desktops are run as virtual machines on an enterprise server, […]

Google is offering companies and developers a new suite of application under the name Google Services for Websites that will allow users to further customize their online space. Google officially launched the new suite March 25. “This expanded program includes Webmaster Tools, AdSense, Custom Search, and Site Search,” Rajat Mukherjee, group product manager for Google, […]

Google is eliminating 200 employees and showing that even its once sure-fire search and advertising business model is not immune to the sluggish global economy. The search engine company announced March 26 that it would be laying off 200 employees from its sales and marketing teams, citing organizational redundancy as a reason. Google is the […]

Twitter is planning to introduce commercial accounts with expanded features, for an added fee, which would allow the site to generate revenue, which could help the site grow and compete against other social networking sites such as Facebook. The news that Twitter was looking to expand its revenue streams started on March 26. Twitter allows […]

Facebook announced on March 24 that it would adjust its homepage in response to user fervor over its new design. The social networking site’s new look had attracted an immense amount of user feedback, with a Facebook poll finding that 94 percent of respondents took issue with the changes. This is the second time in […]

Google Mobile App for BlackBerry now allows users to reduce typing on the Research In Motion smartphones by carrying out mobile Web searches for a location using their voices or the search giant’s My Location application, or both. “If you’re like us and hate typing on that tiny keyboard, you’ll be glad to hear that […]

Twitter announced on March 23 the launch of ExecTweets, a site sponsored by Microsoft and designed to push “tweets” from some of the nation’s most prominent executives to Twitter users. Visitors to the ExecTweets site have granular control over the industry whose executives they want to follow, as well as the option to follow particularly […]

First Look: Dells New Intel Nehalem-Based Workstations by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title In addition to shipping with the Intel Xeon 5500 “Nehalem” chips, the Dell Precision T7500, T5500 and T3500 all feature an Intel Turbo Mode, which adapts processor speed based on application needs, including the capacity to overclock. No Title The Dell Precision T3500 […]

Box.net, which provides online content storage and collaboration solutions, announced on March 24 a new full-text search function for its line of applications, allowing users to scour their networks via an integrated search bar for relevant documents and information. In doing so, the company adds its own contribution to enterprise search. Enterprise search has been […]