Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Apple: iMessage Isn’t Built for Prying Eyes

  [caption id="attachment_13286" align="aligncenter" width="500"] iMessage.[/caption] Apple is pushing back against assertions that its iMessage system is open to hacking. “iMessage is not architec…
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  Data Elite Looks to Profit From Analytics Startups

  Venture-capital firms have spent the past several quarters pouring money into “Big Data” startups, hoping that at least one of the analytics shops in their portfolios will end up selling to a Goo…
• Elon Musk and the Incredible Submersible Car

  [caption id="attachment_13265" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Also comes with missiles as a standard feature.[/caption] In The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), James Bond is given a Lotus Espirit S1 th…
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  When Will Google Try to Make Android More Profitable?

  Will Google ever make Android more of a closed platform? In the years since its inception, Google Android has grown to dominate the mobile device market. A flood of midlevel Android devices crush…
• Hadoop 2.2.0 Reaches General-Release Milestone

  Apache Hadoop 2.2.0 has reached its general-release milestone. Apache Hadoop remains a popular open-source framework for running data applications on large hardware clusters. For numerous compani…
• The Future of Online Journalism: Citizen Kane

  [caption id="attachment_13211" align="aligncenter" width="600"] "It's probably best if nobody lights a match right now."[/caption] In the 1941 film Citizen Kane, the titular newspaper magnate (pl…
• Apple Curbing iPhone 5C Production: Report

  A new report in The Wall Street Journal suggests that Apple is slowing production of the plastic-bodied iPhone 5C. According to the newspaper’s unnamed sources, Apple has asked two Taiwan-based m…
• Snapchat Search Warrants Suggest All Data is Vulnerable

  [caption id="attachment_13172" align="aligncenter" width="500"] At this point, the truly paranoid might as well take a rock to their smartphone.[/caption] This year’s revelations about NSA survei…
• Why Is the iPhone 5S Outselling the iPhone 5C?

  [caption id="attachment_13106" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The iPhone 5C: "unapologetically plastic."[/caption] On paper, it simply doesn’t make sense: why would an expensive smartphone outs…
• Lessons From the Feds’ Healthcare.gov Fiasco

  [caption id="attachment_13110" align="aligncenter" width="618"] A lot of people have experienced trouble accessing even this screen.[/caption] In theory, the federal government’s Health Insurance…