Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Google Wants to Conquer the Wearable-Electronics Market

  [caption id="attachment_18273" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Google's mockup of a timepiece running Android Wear.[/caption] Google definitely wants a bigger footprint in the wearable-electroni…
• Pivotal Updates Its Hadoop Distribution

  Pivotal has released Pivotal HD 2.0, an update of its Apache Hadoop distribution. Pivotal’s freshly upgraded distro is rebased on Hadoop 2.2, which reached its first general-release milestone las…
• Dorian Nakamoto Officially Denies Creating Bitcoin

  Dorian Nakamoto, the California man exposed by Newsweek as Bitcoin creator “Satoshi Nakamoto,” has officially denied any involvement with the crypto-currency. Newsweek reporter Leah McGrath Goodm…
• IBM Denies Giving Client Data to NSA

  IBM claims it hasn’t provided client data to the National Security Agency (NSA) or other government surveillance bodies. In a posting on the Building a Smarter Planet blog, IBM senior vice presid…
• Steve Jobs Denied Apple at Work On a Television: Report

  [caption id="attachment_18214" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Apple TV.[/caption] For years, Apple watchers and pundits were convinced the company was hard at work on a television set of some s…
• SourceForge Interview: Making a Universal Media Server

  Over at Slashdot’s sister site SourceForge, the community selected Universal Media Server as its Community Choice Project of the Month, and talked with its founder about the platform’s history, p…
• SourceForge Interview: Win32 Disk Imager Project

  Over on Slashdot’s sister site SourceForge, the community editors (as part of their regular Project of the Month) sat down with Tobin and Justin, the father-and-son team behind the Win32 Disk Ima…
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  Goldman Sachs Ambivalent on Bitcoin

  In a new report, investment firm Goldman Sachs suggests that Bitcoin “likely can’t work as a currency, but some [people] sense that the ledger-based technology that underlies it could hold promis…
• Apple Patent Suggests Sporty Focus for “iWatch”

  [caption id="attachment_18145" align="aligncenter" width="618"] An "iWatch" concept by Todd Hamilton.[/caption] If and when Apple enters the wearable-electronics market, its products will face a…
• Microsoft Dumping License Fees for Windows Phone?

  [caption id="attachment_18136" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Windows Phone.[/caption] For years, Microsoft remained adamant about its licensing fees for Windows Phone: if a smartphone manufact…