Articles by Nick Kolakowski

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  'The Everything Store': Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon

  [caption id="attachment_13454" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Amazon's page for a book about Amazon's rise. Meta![/caption] Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos regarded Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as a rival…
• Tim Cook to Microsoft: We’ll Just Destroy Your Business Model

  [caption id="attachment_13372" align="aligncenter" width="618"] At the Apple event, Tim Cook makes fun of his company's rivals as "confused."[/caption] Apple CEO Tim Cook and his executives had a…
• Wikipedia and the War on Sockpuppets

  Wikipedia editors are actively engaged in a wide-ranging battle against PR firms attempting to edit the crowdsourced encyclopedia’s entries to reflect their clients’ best interests. Over the past…
• 'Minecraft': Small Story of a Big Game

  [caption id="attachment_13302" align="aligncenter" width="618"] That's a whole lot of blocks.[/caption] Markus “Notch” Persson is the famous indie-game developer behind Minecraft, which is also t…
• 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…