Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Shocker: Internet of Things Poised to Grow Bigger

  [caption id="attachment_17284" align="aligncenter" width="500"] And in a couple years, most of those newfangled "Web enabled" devices will probably end up here.[/caption] Manufacturers will produ…
• Facebook Shows Its Seriousness About Mobile Advertising

  [caption id="attachment_17275" align="aligncenter" width="555"] Facebook's ad-creator interface.[/caption] Facebook has booted two partners from its mobile ad-measuring program, according to a ne…
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  Microsoft Considering Android App Support for Windows: Report

  [caption id="attachment_17242" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Will Android apps someday appear in the Windows app store?[/caption] Microsoft is considering whether to allow Android apps onto Wi…
• Netflix Doesn’t Think Broadband Providers Are Throttling It

  Netflix claims that broadband providers haven’t attempted to impede the company’s streaming service, despite fears of such slowdowns in the wake of a federal court ruling against Net Neutrality.…
• This Isn't the First Time Microsoft's Been Accused of Bing Censorship

  [caption id="attachment_17228" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Bing.[/caption] Microsoft has censored Chinese-language results for Bing users in the United States as well as mainland China, acco…
• The Mystery of Flappy Bird

  [caption id="attachment_17139" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Crunch![/caption] “Flappy Bird,” a mobile game for Android and iOS, managed to flap its way to the dream in January, seizing top sp…
• RNC’s Para Bellum Labs Faces Toughest Job in Politics

  [caption id="attachment_17132" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The Labs will attempt to make the GOP an analytics powerhouse.[/caption] President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign relied on a so…
• Apple Gearing Up Sapphire Manufacturing for iPhone Screens: Report

  Anyone who ever dropped his or her iPhone and watched its screen shatter against the unforgiving pavement might be relieved by the new rumor leaking out of Apple Land, which is that the company i…
• IBM Planning to Sell Off Semiconductor Manufacturing: Rumor

  IBM reportedly wants to chuck even more of its hardware business: a new report in The Wall Street Journal suggests that Big Blue is “exploring” the sale of its semiconductor-manufacturing operati…
• Can Bill Gates Pull a Steve Jobs?

  [caption id="attachment_17034" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Gates (l) and Nadella (r).[/caption] Bill Gates is coming back to Microsoft part-time as a technology advisor to new CEO Satya Nade…