Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Top App Charts Suggest Pain for Indie Devs
Which mobile apps have dominated the charts so far in 2015? According to new data from app-analytics firm App Annie (PDF), the list is stuffed with the usual suspects. Excluding games, iPhone app… -
Is Agile Development a Failing Concept?
Many development teams have embraced Agile as the ideal method for software development, relying on cross-functional teams and adaptive planning to see their product through to the finish line. W… -
Google Software: Safer Than Human Drivers?
Google has more than 20 self-driving vehicles on the road, collectively averaging 10,000 self-driven miles per week. That’s 1.7 million miles of mostly-autonomous driving over the past six years,… -
Does Your Email Provider Affect Your Job Hunt?
In Ye Olden Days of the 1990s, America Online ruled the consumer Web. Millions used AOL to get online; not a mailbox in the United States was spared from those colorful CDs that contained the ser… -
Tech Unemployment Continues to Fall
Unemployment among tech pros dropped to 1.9 percent in April, according to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the lowest unemployment rate since June 2008. Not all technolo… -
Zappos and the Risks of Innovative Management
Some people dream of working in a place with no bosses, where management isn’t breathing down their neck every second of the day. But a sizable chunk of Zappos employees, confronted by a new orga… -
Best-Paying IT Security Jobs of 2015
It’s no secret that tech pros with extensive IT security backgrounds are in high demand, especially in the wake of last year’s high-profile hacks of major companies such as Sony and Home Depot. A… -
Windows 10: The Last Version of Windows
Windows 10 will reportedly be the last version of Windows. No, Microsoft isn’t going out of business; rather, the tech giant has decided to stop looking at Windows as a series of distinct release… -
Google's Plan to Solve Its Diversity Issue
A year ago, Google released some data about its workplace diversity, which showed that the search-engine giant’s employees were 70 percent male and 61 percent white (see the graph above for a fur… -
Google's Secret Retention Tactic: The Bench
Over at Business Insider, there’s an interesting piece on an unusual technique that Google employs to keep its best and brightest from drifting to other companies: Paying them enormous amounts of…