Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Yep, ‘Flappy Bird’ Is Coming Back

  The popular “Flappy Bird” game is coming back, according to creator Dong Nguyen, who nonetheless offered no firm timetable for a re-release. “Yes. But not soon,” he wrote on Twitter March 19, in…
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  Smartwatch Wars Kick Off with Moto 360

  Google is wasting no time with this “smartwatch” trend. The day after the search-engine giant announced Android Wear, a version of its popular Android operating system modified for wristwatches a…
• Twitter Stopped Encryption Project: Report

  Twitter has stopped a project that would have encrypted direct messages between users, according to anonymous sources speaking to The Verge. “In November, news leaked that Twitter had started wor…
• Snowden Appears at TED Via Robot

  [caption id="attachment_18298" align="aligncenter" width="502"] Google co-founder Sergey Brin with Edward Snowden (via robot).[/caption] Edward Snowden hasn’t let political exile hold him down: d…
• 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…