Articles by Nick Kolakowski

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  White House Dismissing Key Healthcare.gov Contractor: Report

  [caption id="attachment_16020" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Healthcare.gov.[/caption] Months after a problem-riddled rollout of the Healthcare.gov Website, the White House is dismissing a key…
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  Is Ford Collecting Data About Your Driving Habits?

  Is Ford collecting GPS coordinates (and perhaps other data) on its customers? Comments made by a company executive at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas certainly left that…
• IBM’s Watson Could Intensify Analytics Competition

  [caption id="attachment_16012" align="aligncenter" width="618"] A timeline of Watson's expansion.[/caption] Ladies and gentlemen of the analytics community, we have a platform war on our hands. T…
• IBM Investing $1 Billion in Watson Business Unit

  [caption id="attachment_15967" align="aligncenter" width="618"] IBM's Watson logo.[/caption] IBM believes its Watson supercomputing platform is much more than a gameshow-winning gimmick: its exec…
• Snapchat Finally Says ‘Sorry’

  [caption id="attachment_15971" align="aligncenter" width="618"] New and improved... or at least fixed.[/caption] More than a week after attackers raided personal information on 4.6 million Snapch…
• Sony Launching PlayStation Now Streaming Platform

  [caption id="attachment_15920" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The success of games such as "Destiny" will ultimately determine whether Sony's latest PlayStation platform is a success.[/caption]…
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  David Pogue and Yahoo’s “Normals” Problem

  David Pogue takes some nasty shots at other tech publications out there.[/caption] In September 2009, Yahoo’s then-CEO Carol Bartz introduced a new global branding campaign at a high-profile even…
• Kanye West's Attorneys File Suit Over 'Coinye West'

  [caption id="attachment_15861" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The battle over the cryptocurrency could get ugly.[/caption] In a predictable twist, attorneys for Kanye West have filed cease-and-…
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  CES: LG Unveils WebOS Televisions

  [caption id="attachment_15806" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The new LG television interface.[/caption] LG Electronics is using this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to reve…
• How the Coast Guard Uses Analytics to Search for Those Lost at Sea

  [caption id="attachment_15755" align="aligncenter" width="500"] It's a big ocean out there.[/caption] In the early-morning hours of July 24, a Montauk fisherman named John Aldridge fell off a lob…