Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• 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…
• Valve's Steam Initiative Needs 'Half-Life 3'

  [caption id="attachment_12843" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Gamers have been waiting years for the sequel to 'Half-Life 2' (shown here).[/caption] In late September, Valve made several announ…
• Investors Want Bill Gates Gone from Microsoft: Report

  [caption id="attachment_12827" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Gates.[/caption] A trio of Microsoft investors wants Bill Gates to leave the company he helped co-found, according to a new Reuters…
• The Next Big Fiber Showdown: Austin

  Google might have big plans to wire America with high-speed broadband, but at least one carrier isn’t willing to let Google Fiber have a free run: AT&T has announced that it will deploy a “100 pe…
• Is the Wearable-Electronics Market Big Enough for Everyone?

  [caption id="attachment_12760" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The view through Recon Instruments' HUD.[/caption] For the past several months, Google has been methodically building hype for its…
• Microsoft Improving Power Map for Excel

  Microsoft seems intent on improving its Power Map for Excel tool, which allows users to visualize data in 3D. In theory, a Power Map holds a lot of uses for anyone who works with either geospatia…
• Pew: 15 Percent of Americans Avoiding Internet

  This could be hard to believe for Americans equipped with at least three Internet-ready gadgets at any given moment, but 15 percent of their fellow citizens do not use the Internet or email, acco…