Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Google Glass Branching Into Music

  [caption id="attachment_14069" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Google Glass will allow users to play songs with a simple voice command.[/caption] Who wants to buy Google Glass? Extreme-sports af…
• Yahoo Ranking System Sparks Employee Ire

  [caption id="attachment_14037" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Behind this cute homepage lurks a lot of irate employees, according to a new report.[/caption] Let’s engage in a high-concept fligh…
• GCHQ Responds to Slashdot, LinkedIn Hack

  [caption id="attachment_13937" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Purported slide showing how the GCHQ used fake LinkedIn and Slashdot Websites to infiltrate a Belgian telecommunications network.[/…
• Snowden Social-Engineered His NSA Colleagues

  Government whistleblower Edward Snowden obtained his massive trove of top-secret documents about the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs by asking his colleagues for their credential…
• Stephen Elop Would Pull a Nokia on Microsoft

  [caption id="attachment_13884" align="aligncenter" width="615"] Elop: Appetite for destruction?[/caption] Bloomberg is reporting that Stephen Elop, who’s apparently on the short list of candidate…
• Facebook Open-Sources Its Presto Tool

  [caption id="attachment_13870" align="aligncenter" width="563"] A diagram of Facebook's Presto.[/caption] Facebook stores its warehouse data in a set of enormous Hadoop/HDFS-based clusters. That…
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  'The Everything Store' Sparks Battle Over Bezos' Reputation

  [caption id="attachment_13769" align="aligncenter" width="475"] That's what this situation truly needs.[/caption] Tech-giant CEOs such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos face criticism from a number of quart…
• Google’s Helpouts Driven by People Power

  [caption id="attachment_13712" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Google Hangouts.[/caption] While Google built its highly profitable search business atop a complex mix of algorithms and machine le…
• Silicon Valley’s War on Snooping

  Some of the country’s biggest tech companies are responding to allegations of NSA surveillance in the best way they know how: by encrypting more of their data, and demanding that the federal gove…
• Salesforce Launches Private App Hub

  [caption id="attachment_13610" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Salesforce's Private AppExchange.[/caption] Private app stores for companies could proliferate over the next few years, if one laun…