Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• 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…
• Facebook Acquires Mobile-Software Startup Onavo

  [caption id="attachment_13102" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Onavo builds analytics software in addition to data-compression tools.[/caption] Facebook has acquired Israeli mobile-analytics fir…
• Google Revealing More About Quantum-Computing Project

  [caption id="attachment_13072" align="aligncenter" width="561"] This hardware could one day cough up the universe's secrets.[/caption] Google is revealing a little bit more about its ambitious qu…
• Why Won’t Google’s ‘Shared Endorsements’ Pay Users?

  [caption id="attachment_13097" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Google's Shared Endorsements.[/caption] When a celebrity steps before the cameras and holds up a bottle of Coke, their fat endorsem…
• Dave Eggers' "The Circle": Dangers of an Overconnected World

  Here are the lessons imparted by Dave Eggers’ “The Circle,” his new novel about the rise of a fictional technology company clearly modeled on Google or Facebook: Sharing content with people onlin…
• GE Partnering Up for ‘Industrial Internet’ Push

  General Electric executives have spent the past year talking up the “Industrial Internet,” in which old-school technologies such as assembly lines are studded with sensors and supported by cuttin…
• Why Julian Assange Needs ‘The Fifth Estate’

  [caption id="attachment_13041" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange in 'The Fifth Estate.'[/caption] It’s no secret that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has a…