Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• 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…
• The Saddest Spots in New York City

  [caption id="attachment_11728" align="aligncenter" width="618"] New York City: the redder the map section, the more miserable the people (at least on Twitter).[/caption] A new research paper from…
• Groklaw Shutting Down Is a Huge Deal

  [caption id="attachment_11690" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Groklaw.[/caption] Groklaw, a Website that has spent the past decade covering legal issues important to the open-source community,…
• Cloud-Computing Market Will Hit $20 Billion by 2016: Report

  The cloud-computing market will hit $20 billion by 2016, according to a new report from a division of 451 Research. "Cloud computing is on the upswing and demand for public cloud services remains…
• NSA Funding N.C. State University Lab

  North Carolina State University just secured a $60.75 million grant from the National Security Agency (NSA) to build a massive campus lab for the study of data analytics. The Laboratory for Analy…