Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Snapchat Exploits Could Reveal Private User Details

  [caption id="attachment_15542" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Part of the code that could represent trouble for Snapchat.[/caption] Snapchat might not be so private after all. Cyber-security co…
• RSA Allegations Boost Paranoia Over Encryption

  The NSA paid RSA, the security subsidiary of tech giant EMC, roughly $10 million to include an agency-generated formula in its software that created a backdoor into RSA encryption products, accor…
• Snapchat's Future Revenue Conundrum

  [caption id="attachment_15484" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Snapchat's distinctive ghost logo.[/caption] Snapchat managed to attract a lot of buzz in 2013—perhaps more than any other app on t…
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  Target Hack Suggests Era of Big Data Breaches is Upon Us

  [caption id="attachment_15358" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Hackers scored a bull's eye on Target.[/caption] Target admitted in a Dec. 19 statement that cyber-criminals had access to credit-…
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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…