Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• 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…
• BlackBerry Could Break Up: Report

  A new Bloomberg report suggests that BlackBerry could break up. In September, a consortium led by financial-holding company Fairfax Financial indicated that it would acquire BlackBerry for $4.7 b…
• Time to Regulate Domestic Drones?

  [caption id="attachment_12908" align="aligncenter" width="500"] A military drone.[/caption] Earlier this week, a small helicopter drone tumbled out of the sky over midtown Manhattan, crashing to…
• Monsanto’s Latest Acquisition Is Analytics-Oriented

  Agribusiness giant Monsanto plans to acquire The Climate Corporation for approximately $930 million. The intention is to integrate The Climate Corporation’s agriculture and weather analytics into…
• Astronaut Talks “Gravity,” Spacewalking, ISS

  [caption id="attachment_12881" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Uh-oh.[/caption] Two NASA astronauts float in the blackness far above Earth, trapped in the most desperate of predicaments. Their s…