Articles by Nick Kolakowski

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  HP and SAP Alliance Over HANA a Matter of Pragmatism

  Hewlett-Packard and SAP aren’t direct competitors on the level of, say, Oracle and Salesforce—but with HP expanding more rapidly into the services industry, it’ll inevitably find itself at odds w…
• Broadband Usage Still Slowly Gaining in U.S.

  Roughly 70 percent of American adults over the age of 18 have a high-speed broadband connection in their home, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Pr…
• Facebook Releases First-Ever Transparency Report

  [caption id="attachment_11920" align="aligncenter" width="618"] A section of Facebook's Transparency Report.[/caption] Facebook has joined Google and other tech giants in releasing a “transparenc…
• A New System to Link Human Knowledge with Machine Data

  There have been dozens of experimental design approaches to the problem of connecting human nerves with mechanical or electronic extensions. In addition to "smart prosthetics," there have been mo…
• Why Amazon’s Fighting So Hard for a CIA Cloud Contract

  The battle between IBM and Amazon over a lucrative CIA cloud-computing contract is getting more vicious: in a filing released last week, Amazon swiped at the Government Accountability Office (GAO…
• Musk's New Hologram Project Invites 'Iron Man' Comparisons

  [caption id="attachment_11873" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey Jr.) designs his armor via holographic drafting. Elon Musk may soon improve his rockets the sam…
• Twitter IPO Could Raise Data Questions

  [caption id="attachment_11855" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Twitter.[/caption] Rumors have circulated for a couple of weeks that Twitter is considering an IPO. First it put out hiring request…
• SAP Barging into Salesforce’s Social Territory

  SAP is taking a run at Salesforce with a new analytics platform that mines social networks and internal company data for sentiment and contact insights. If a number of customers on Facebook are c…
• IBM Getting Into Financial-Analytics Game

  Even before Big Data became the buzzword du jour, tech companies studied how data analytics could be used to manage and regulate businesses’ financial systems. There’s potentially a lot of money…
• Internet.org: Altruistic, or the Ultimate in Cynicism?

  [caption id="attachment_11719" align="aligncenter" width="500"] What this place clearly needs is more Facebook, stat.[/caption] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to bring the Internet to every h…