Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Good Mobile UX: More Vital Than Ever
More Americans than ever are only interacting with the web via their smartphones and other mobile devices. For web app designers and any tech professionals who work with UI/UX, that means it’s mo… -
New Android App Review System Could Drive Devs Nuts
Google has introduced a new, more stringent review system for Android apps, which is causing no small amount of irritation among a subset of Android developers. An updated page within Google’s An… -
Microsoft Cortana: First Casualty of the Digital-Assistant Wars?
Amazon has Alexa, Google has its voice-activated Assistant, and Apple has Siri. Anxious to compete in the growing digital-assistant wars, Microsoft rolled out Cortana—but that might have been a c… -
Mathematicians a Hot Focus of Nationwide Job Postings
Companies really want mathematicians and data engineers, according to the latest breakdown of data from Burning Glass’s NOVA platform, which analyzes millions of active job postings. Indeed, math… -
WeWork Software Engineer Pay: Get Ready for a Wild Ride
The We Company—which created WeWork, provider of shared workspaces, as well as WeLive, provider of shared living spaces—is going public. In its IPO prospectus, the firm revealed revenues of $1.54… -
Unity Offering New Project Tools for Student Coders
Unity Technologies is pushing into the education realm with two new educational tools, one aimed at students and the other at educators. Of course, both tools heavily leverage Unity, the developm… -
10 Tech Certifications That Pay Out Mega-Bucks
Which certifications pay the most? Considering the amount of time, effort, and money needed to earn a certification, that’s a question on the forefront of many a tech professional’s mind. Fortuna… -
IBM Senior Software Engineer Pay Lags Microsoft, Apple, Oracle
When you think “old school” technology companies, your thoughts likely drift to some of the stalwarts that have been around for decades—companies such as IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and Apple. If you… -
Apple Offering Insane Payday for This Type of Bug
Apple is so concerned about someone hacking the iPhone that it’s willing to pay one million dollars to any security researcher who reports certain types of vulnerabilities. At this year’s edition… -
5 Programming Languages Slated for Future Greatness
Last month, we boldly proclaimed that a handful of programming languages are almost certainly doomed in the medium- to long-term, based on data from firms such as RedMonk and TIOBE. That article…