Articles by Nick Kolakowski

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  PlayStation 4 Critiqued by Original Xbox Design Team

  [caption id="attachment_14307" align="aligncenter" width="618"] PlayStation 4: design marvel or mess?[/caption] Teague, the studio that helped design the original Xbox, has decided to critique th…
• How Snapchat and Instagram Could Doom Startups

  What’s cooler than a billion dollars? Fifteen billion dollars. Someone in Silicon Valley or Silicon Alley must have made that joke over the past few days, after a handful of investors Tweeted tha…
• Salesforce Revising Mobile Strategy Yet Again

  [caption id="attachment_14245" align="aligncenter" width="481"] Salesforce1.[/caption] As part of its Dreamforce conference this week in San Francisco, Salesforce is revamping its whole mobile st…
• Apple Reportedly Acquires Motion-Sensing Firm PrimeSense

  [caption id="attachment_14241" align="aligncenter" width="505"] PrimeSense has focused lately on making its devices smaller.[/caption] Apple has reportedly acquired Israeli tech firm PrimeSense f…
• Amazon Getting into Real-Time Data With Kinesis

  [caption id="attachment_14208" align="aligncenter" width="560"] Kinesis.[/caption] Amazon is the kudzu of the Internet: there’s not a niche it won’t attempt to fill. Over the past few years, it’s…
• Authors Guild Responds to Google Books Ruling

  Google wants to digitize the world’s books, a key element in its longstanding mission to make all information available to anyone with a Web connection. The Authors Guild, which describes itself…
• Stephen Wolfram Developing New Programming Language

  [caption id="attachment_14128" align="aligncenter" width="519"] Look! A box![/caption] Stephen Wolfram, the chief designer of the Mathematica software platform and the Wolfram Alpha “computation…
• Why Did Snapchat Turn Down $3 Billion?

  [caption id="attachment_14122" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Would you pay a couple billion dollars for this?[/caption] Would you turn down $3 billion? According to The Wall Street Journal, th…
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  Can You Sue a Spy Agency for Hacking Your Data?

  When the GCHQ agency (Britain’s equivalent of the National Security Agency) reportedly decided to infiltrate the IT network of Belgian telecommunications firm Belgacom, it relied on a sophisticat…
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  Motorola Aims for Midmarket With Moto G

  [caption id="attachment_14073" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The Moto G.[/caption] Google’s Motorola subsidiary pinned its hopes for a great 2013 on the Moto X, a high-end smartphone that allo…