Articles by Nick Kolakowski

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  Amazon Really Wants to Become an Analytics Player

  [caption id="attachment_15348" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Amazon's cute little cartoon explaining Kinesis boils down a complicated data platform to a series of tubes.[/caption] In November,…
• Wink, and Google Glass Will Snap a Photo

  [caption id="attachment_15313" align="aligncenter" width="618"] You can now upload Google Glass footage to YouTube. Better hope that parachute opens.[/caption] Google is adding several new featur…
• Amazon Web Services Heading to China

  [caption id="attachment_15324" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Amazon's Website for its new AWS region in mainland China.[/caption] Amazon plans on opening an Amazon Web Services (AWS) region in…
• Games Dominated Apple’s Bestselling Apps of 2013

  [caption id="attachment_15271" align="aligncenter" width="568"] "Candy Crush Saga."[/caption] It was a good year to be a mobile-game developer for iOS. Apple’s freshly released list of 2013’s bes…
• Google Acquires Robotics-Maker Boston Dynamics

  [caption id="attachment_15219" align="aligncenter" width="490"] A Boston Dynamics robot tromping through the snow.[/caption] Google has just acquired robotics firm Boston Dynamics, creator of fou…
• Twitter Shows How Not to Roll Out a New Feature

  On a whiteboard, it must have seemed like a good idea: rejigger Twitter’s blocking system so that a blocked user could still view and respond to the Tweets of whomever blocked them, even if the b…
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  Key to Big Data in 2014: Stay Skeptical

  [caption id="attachment_15099" align="aligncenter" width="500"] "My crystal ball says we're all hosed in 2014."[/caption] It’s that magical time of year again, when the nation’s analysts begin to…
• Dell Adds to Chromebook Momentum

  [caption id="attachment_15076" align="aligncenter" width="618"] "Keep smiling, or the modeling agency won't pay us."[/caption] Dell plans on rolling out a Chromebook in January 2014, aimed at the…
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  HP’s Latest Converged-Systems Offerings Target Big Data

  [caption id="attachment_14948" align="aligncenter" width="500"] HP's hoping companies will stock their datacenters with its "stack."[/caption] Hewlett-Packard isn’t the only tech giant attempting…
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  Google Patents Method for Imitating You Online

  [caption id="attachment_14884" align="aligncenter" width="507"] This system can do a better online you than you.[/caption] Tech companies file lots of patents for outlandish concepts—it serves as…