Nicholas Kolakowski

Yahoo announced two new features for SearchMonkey and Facebook. The new updates to SearchMonkey allow a site designer with flash video, games, spreadsheets or presentations embedded on their page to add lines of code that will make their page appear as an enhanced result in Yahoo’s search results. In other words, if a site administrator […]

Sprint Nextel, which has exclusive U.S. rights through the end of 2009 to sell Palm’s upcoming Pre touch-screen smartphone, announced its individual, family and business plans for the device. The Palm Pre is intended to help long-suffering Palm compete against Research In Motion’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone. Sprint plans on offering individual, family and business […]

Google has raised privacy concerns with its newly launched interest-based advertising, which displays ads based on users’ previous searches and page views. Also known as “behavioral targeting” or “online behavioral targeting,” the method has privacy advocates up in arms over Google collecting massive amounts of user data. While search engines use this type of technology, […]

Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other social networks have hundreds of millions of users combined. These solutions have grown exponentially on the strength of their messaging and communication applications – who doesn’t want to at least occasionally share photos with a friend in Dubai or at least reconnect with old college roommates? Recognizing their connectivity benefits […]

Apple rolled out a new iPod Shuffle on March 11 that it claims is the smallest music player in the world. The device also “talks,” courtesy of a new feature called “VoiceOver” that reads aloud song and playlist information at the press of a button. By moving the iPod Shuffle’s controls from the device body […]

Google announced on March 11 that it was launching a beta version of what it terms “interest-based advertising,” a type of behavioral targeting that delivers ads to users based on their previous searches and page views. Based on previous site visits and page views, Google will link “categories of interest” such as cars or fishing […]

Dell began laying off employees March 11 in an effort to reduce costs at a time when global PC sales have plummeted due to a sour worldwide economy, especially in the United States, where Dell has always been a strong contender. The news comes two weeks after the company announced dismal fourth-quarter earnings. According to […]

SAP announced a partnership on March 11 with Sybase, a provider of enterprise and mobile software, which will enable the SAP Business Suite 7 to fully run on the Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, BlackBerry smartphones and other mobile devices. This new mobility is being initiated by SAP under the slogan, “Office on the Go.” […]

First Look: Dells Latitude E6400 XFR Rugged Laptop by Nicholas Kolakowski No Title Dell’s second-generation Latitude E6400 XFR can withstand a drop-and-impact from 4 feet (as opposed to 3 feet for the first generation), thanks to an outer shell crafted from the same polymer used in ballistic armor. No Title A provided stylus allows users […]

Dell is rolling out its latest fully rugged laptop-the Latitude E6400 XFR-in an effort to match what Panasonic has done with its Toughbook notebook line, while penetrating specific new markets such as construction and oil and gas exploration. The new Dell Latitude E6400 XFR goes on sale March 10. With an outer shell crafted from […]