Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• HP Moving Further into Cloud-Based Analytics

  Hewlett-Packard is launching cloud-based analytics software tethered to its HAVEn Big Data platform. The analytics-as-a-service offering will include tools for customer intelligence, supply-chain…
• Kindle Fire HDX Offers Clues to Amazon's Tablet Evolution

  [caption id="attachment_12645" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX.[/caption] Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets are handheld vending machines for the company’s e-books and stream…
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  A Timely Revision of Elop’s ‘Burning Platform’ Memo

  Microsoft’s purchase of Finnish phone-maker Nokia will enrich the latter’s CEO, Stephen Elop, to the tune of roughly $25.4 million. That’s a generous number, considering Nokia’s much-publicized t…
• Apple Didn’t Skimp on New iPhones’ Parts

  [caption id="attachment_12620" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Apple's iPhone 5S.[/caption] Apple’s high-end iPhone 5S cost at least $191 to build, according to a new teardown report by research…
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  Is Oracle Hiding its Data-Analytics Strategy?

  Oracle might be displaying more interest in data analytics, but the company’s playing its proverbial cards close to the vest when it comes to revealing an overarching strategy. At this year’s Ope…
• BlackBerry Will Sell Itself for $4.7 Billion

  [caption id="attachment_12585" align="aligncenter" width="618"] In the end, the brand-new BlackBerry 10 operating system wasn't enough to reverse the company's slide.[/caption] A consortium led b…
• CLANG and the Pitfalls of Kickstarter

  It’s not a new story: cool project solicits funds on Kickstarter (or a similar crowdfunding Website), fails to meet its lofty financial goal, and disappears into obscurity. The majority of Kickst…
• RSA Security Warns of Possible NSA Backdoor

  RSA Security is telling its developer clients to stop using an algorithm that could contain an NSA backdoor, according to a new report in Wired. RSA advises those developers to switch from using…
• Apple CEO Tim Cook Has Some Choice Words About Android

  [caption id="attachment_12505" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Apple needs its next iPhones to be blockbusters.[/caption] In an extensive interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Apple CEO Tim Coo…
• Salesforce, Workday Form Yet Another Data Alliance

  In a move seemingly tailor-made to send Oracle executives’ blood pressure through the proverbial ceiling, Salesforce and Workday have announced a wide-ranging plan to blend together their respect…