Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Time for Devs to Look at Apple Watch?
Although Apple refuses to divulge hard sales numbers for the Apple Watch, the analysts at Canalys decided to take a run at it, estimating shipments to date at 7 million. Canalys claims that puts… -
Candy Crush Buy Shows Mobile Is King
When gaming conglomerate Activision Blizzard announced that it would purchase King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 billion, the news made a lot of jaws drop across the tech industry. Although King… -
Teaching a Bot to Play Board Games
If you believe the heady prophecies of the world’s tech companies, artificial-intelligence systems will soon do everything from drive our cars to diagnose our diseases. (Whether they add or take… -
Apple and the Key to Successful Collaboration
If you’re looking for a refresher on the value of integrating teams, look no further than Mashable’s latest piece on Apple, in which marketing executive Phil Schiller talks about how the company’… -
Deadline Dilemma: When to Cut Scope?
Over at Kotaku, there’s an interesting story about the development of Destiny, the bestselling video game. Created by the same team that made the Halo series an international phenomenon (which he… -
Breaking Into Augmented Reality
Magic Leap, the augmented reality (AR) startup that received more than $500 million in venture funding from Google and other venture capitalists, recently decided to show off some of its technolo… -
Hate Bay Area Rents? Live In a Truck
A little over a year ago, Google employees on a Quora thread announced they’d discovered an interesting way to live in the ultra-expensive Bay Area: Rather than pay for conventional housing, they… -
The Debate: Human Curation or Algorithm?
During a keynote talk at this year’s WSJ.D Live, the technology conference hosted by The Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook defended the marketplace performance of Apple Music, his company’s… -
Should Diversity Efforts Include Older Workers?
Over on Medium, columnist Steven Levy brings up an interesting point about Silicon Valley: Despite tech companies’ recent focus on diversity, there’s been precious little focus on whether older w… -
Use the Pareto Principle to Boost Productivity
If you’ve spent any time researching how to make your workday more efficient, chances are good you’ve heard of the Pareto principle, also known as the 80/20 rule. It goes something like this: 80…