Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Is ‘Titanfall’ the Next ‘Halo’?

  [caption id="attachment_18032" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Let's admit it, this whole article is an excuse to run a really cool screengrab.[/caption] This week, Microsoft and Electronic Arts…
• Samsung Launches Streaming Radio Service

  [caption id="attachment_18022" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Samsung's Milk Music interface.[/caption] Samsung isn’t a company to let a good trend go unexploited, and so it’s launched a stream…
• Satoshi Nakamoto Denies Being Bitcoin's “Satoshi Nakamoto”

  A California man named Satoshi Nakamoto has denied Newsweek’s claim that he’s “Satoshi Nakamoto,” the mysterious founder of the Bitcoin crypto-currency. “No, no, no, I was never involved,” Nakamo…
• How Does Any Cloud Startup Battle AWS?

  Amazon Web Services has evolved into the 800-pound gorilla of the cloud-infrastructure space, with thousands of clients (big and small) using its resources to power Websites and online services.…
• Bitcoin’s ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ Is… Satoshi Nakamoto?

  For years, Bitcoin users assumed that the name of the crypto-currency’s mysterious creator, “Satoshi Nakamoto,” was a pseudonym of some sort. But according to Newsweek’s Leah McGrath Goodman, “Sa…
• Ultra-Secure Smartphones: The Next Big Thing?

  [caption id="attachment_17928" align="aligncenter" width="587"] The "Privacy Phone."[/caption] Will ultra-secure smartphones soon become a commonplace item? In January, secure-communications prov…
• Yet Another Bitcoin 'Bank Robbery'

  [caption id="attachment_17895" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Robbed (reportedly)![/caption] Flexcoin, a Website that once billed itself as the “world’s first Bitcoin bank,” is reporting a mass…
• Kickstarter Passes the Billion-Dollar Pledge Mark

  [caption id="attachment_17889" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Kickstarter's visualization for the past five years of crowdfunding.[/caption] Kickstarter has passed $1 billion in crowdfunded ple…
• Using Google BigQuery for Geoip Geolocation

  Google’s BigQuery analytics platform allows developers to crunch massive amounts of data while providing secure SSL access and group- and user-based permissions via Google accounts. It’s one of G…
• 'Moneyball' and the Limits of Data

  [caption id="attachment_17871" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Cricket ball.[/caption] Over at ReadWrite, Matt Asay makes an interesting point about the limits of so-called “Big Data”: although…