Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• HP Deploying Autonomy Software to Data Backup

  Hewlett-Packard’s always had a hard time figuring out what to do with Autonomy, its data-analytics subsidiary. Originally acquired as part of former CEO Leo Apotheker’s abortive attempt to transi…
• Wolfram Language Coming to Raspberry Pi

  [caption id="attachment_14449" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Wolfram's software running on Raspberry Pi.[/caption] Earlier in November, entrepreneurial mathematician Stephen Wolfram announced…
• Smartwatches Could Prove a Short-Term Dud

  [caption id="attachment_14406" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Samsung's Galaxy Gear: chic, perhaps, but not well-reviewed.[/caption] Smartwatches might prove the must-have consumer items of 201…
• Salesforce, HP Teaming Up to Sell 'Superpods'

  At this year’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce announced a strategic partnership with Hewlett-Packard. Under the terms of that agreement, the two companies will collaborate on…
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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…