Nicholas Kolakowski

Dell is rolling out three new Precision desktop workstations March 25 that utilize Intel processors based on the newer “Nehalem” microarchitecture that the chip company introduced in November. Intel had previously announced that the first of its Nehalem-based processors, the Intel Core i7 chip, would gradually roll out into the market starting at the end […]

Oracle might be gearing up for another highly public acquisition, and this time the IT giant may have its eyes set on open-source innovator Red Hat. This week, an analyst suggested that an Oracle acquisition of Red Hat is “eventually highly likely.” Although Oracle and Red Hat are not speaking about these reports, it generated […]

Google veteran Doug Merrill, who had previously served as CIO and vice president of engineering at the search company, stepped down on March 24 from his role at EMI Group as president of EMI Music’s Digital Business unit and chief operating officer of its New Music unit. Merrill joined EMI in April 2008, as the […]

10 Must-See Finance Apps for the iPhone by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title Name: Bloomberg MobileCost: FreeThis App delivers news, stock quotes, analysis, price charts and company descriptions—basically, much of the same functionality available to Bloomberg users. The mobile version supports 11 languages (including Ukrainian and Chinese), lets you see expanded versions of charts by rotating […]

Google launched two new improvements to its core search engine on March 24. The two upgrades include an expanded list of useful related searches and longer search result descriptions. Yahoo and other search engines have been introducing several rounds of innovative features over the past few months, perhaps pressuring Google to create new features in […]

NEW YORK – Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, whose company just cut a new deal with Twitter this week, is seeing the possibilities of cloud computing expand as more and more platforms – not just applications – move into the cloud. Along with Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM and other companies, Salesforce has been making an aggressive […]

Salesforce.com announced March 23 that it is adding Twitter to the Salesforce.com Service Cloud, a software-as-a-service solution begun in January that groups Google search, Facebook connections, online communities and discussion forums into a cloud-based customer service channel. For the user, this means that the Service Cloud dashboard now offers a Twitter tab, which leads to […]

Sybase announced on March 23 a new version of its iAnywhere Mobile Office, designed to offer mobile users, including those with Apple iPhones, an enterprise solution supporting e-mail, calendar, tasks and contacts with corporate directory lookup. In addition to supporting Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 3rd Edition, the iAnywhere Mobile Office will be available on […]

Google announced March 20 that Google Voice, its new phone-based application, has the ability to block phone spam. By tagging a phone call as spam, users effectively block the caller’s number from ringing their various phones or leaving e-mails. However, the marked calls will end up in a spam folder, which can be manually filtered […]

Oracle announced on March 23 an agreement to acquire Relsys International, which offers drug safety and risk management solutions with advanced analytics for the health sciences industry. Relsys offers solutions for event reporting, risk management and data analysis in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology arenas. By acquiring Relsys, Oracle will gain the ability to deliver software […]