Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• 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…
• Sochi Could Turn Into Hacker Olympics

  [caption id="attachment_17030" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The Sochi Olympics schedule.[/caption] Everyone attending this year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, should be extra careful abo…
• DARPA’s Open-Source Software Is Now Yours

  [caption id="attachment_16976" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Just some of the projects offered for download.[/caption] The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—also known as the U.S. mili…
• FISA Data Release by Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft Means Squat

  Google, Yahoo, and other tech firms are offering some updated statistics about government requests for data. There’s just one problem: under revised guidelines issued by the federal government, t…
• For SAP, It's the Cloud or Bust

  [caption id="attachment_16964" align="aligncenter" width="500"] More companies want to make their on-premises datacenter a thing of the past.[/caption] In a Feb. 4 speech to financial analysts in…
• The Coming War for Artificial-Intelligence Startups

  [caption id="attachment_16931" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Google Now is just one example of the increasing need for "smarter" software.[/caption] In late January, Google announced the acqui…
• Facebook 10 Years Later: From Dorm Project to Giant

  [caption id="attachment_16927" align="aligncenter" width="588"] Facebook, v1.0.[/caption] Ten years ago, a Harvard student named Mark Zuckerberg launched a social network called The Facebook, tot…