Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• 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…
• Facebook’s PayPal-Style E-Payments Could Raise Privacy Concerns

  [caption id="attachment_11593" align="aligncenter" width="618"] In order for such a system to work, Facebook would need millions of users' credit-card info on file.[/caption] Facebook is reported…
• Gmail Isn’t Violating Anyone’s Privacy

  [caption id="attachment_11588" align="aligncenter" width="610"] Not even the recipients are reading this one.[/caption] Google finds itself in the crosshairs of a class-action lawsuit alleging th…
• BlackBerry Tumbles in Smartphone Sales Rankings

  [caption id="attachment_11571" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Nokia has bet everything on Windows Phone, which surpassed BlackBerry for the first time in Gartner's sales rankings.[/caption] Day…
• The Next Big Data Battle: Utilities

  [caption id="attachment_11525" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Analytics could make energy-generating windmills more efficient.[/caption] IBM has announced what it calls “an advanced power and w…
• Apple iPhone’s Share of the Smartphone Market Declines

  [caption id="attachment_11496" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Apple's iPhone.[/caption] Apple’s share of the smartphone market is declining, according to new data from IDC. But that’s nothing f…
• Will the Feds Harm the Cloud Computing Industry?

  PRISM and other federal surveillance programs could end up costing the U.S. cloud-computing industry billions of dollars, suggested a recent report from the Information Technology & Innovation Fo…