Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Lenovo Acquires IBM Server Business

  [caption id="attachment_16500" align="aligncenter" width="500"] With this deal, Lenovo gains a lot of presence in the datacenter.[/caption] IBM will sell its lower-end server business to Lenovo f…
• Amazon Slashes AWS Prices, Adds Instances in Competitive Bid

  In a bid to maintain its lead within the increasingly competitive cloud-storage market, Amazon has slashed prices for its S3 standard storage and Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) customers. For S…
• Verizon Buys Intel TV

  Verizon has acquired Intel’s television business. Wait, Intel had a television business? Indeed it did: the Intel Media division worked on “Cloud TV” products and services. Verizon (which purchas…
• Net Neutrality: What Now?

  [caption id="attachment_16273" align="aligncenter" width="500"] If you believe in net neutrality, everything flowing through these cables is created equal.[/caption] Earlier this week, the U.S. C…
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  Beats Music’s Magic Algorithm: Hype or Secret Weapon?

  [caption id="attachment_16258" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Beats Music relies on a number of inputs to curate playlists.[/caption] Streaming music is a crowded market segment: in addition to…
• Google Releases Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop

  [caption id="attachment_16254" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Diagram of Hadoop on Google Cloud Platform.[/caption] Google has released a preview version of a Google Cloud Storage connector for…
• "Her": When Your OS Loves You Back, Things Get Messy

  [caption id="attachment_16244" align="aligncenter" width="618"] "Gee, I guess these glasses do make me look a little like Woody Allen."[/caption] In the new movie “Her,” an introverted loner (pla…
• Is Blackphone the First NSA-Proof Phone?

  [caption id="attachment_16200" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The Blackphone. Against a black background.[/caption] In the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations about National Security Agency (N…
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  Minsky's Creators Talk Economic Modeling, Bitcoin, and Chaos Theory

  Over on Slashdot’s sister site SourceForge, the community editors (as part of their regular Project of the Month) sat down with the creators of Minsky, which bills itself as a “system dynamics pr…
• We're Already Cyborgs

  [caption id="attachment_16136" align="aligncenter" width="618"] A Glass rack at a Google Glass studio in NYC.[/caption] The Google Glass studio above New York City’s Chelsea Market is modeled aft…