Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Chromebooks Could Work for Businesses: Analyst

  [caption id="attachment_11261" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Chromebooks: best for business?[/caption] Whether or not Google’s Chromebooks seize a significant portion of the overall laptop mar…
• Cheap iPhone Could Boost Data Rewards, Issues

  [caption id="attachment_11253" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The popularity of the iPhone 5 and other devices has already pushed Apple to beef up its backend infrastructure.[/caption] A new re…
• Nokia Getting Sick of Windows Phone?

  Microsoft isn’t evolving its Windows Phone platform fast enough for Nokia’s taste, according to an executive for the Finnish phone-maker. "We are trying to evolve the cultural thinking [at Micros…
• How Hackers Use Bots to Score Prime Restaurant Reservations

  [caption id="attachment_11224" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Alternatively, you could always just find a place that's empty.[/caption] Forget about hacking an app or database: for a small cadr…
• Microsoft’s Ballmer Admits Surface Sales Poor: Reports

  [caption id="attachment_11212" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Surface.[/caption] Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told employees at an internal company event that Windows hasn’t been selling well en…
• Forget Apple: Samsung Could Be Google’s Next Big Rival

  [caption id="attachment_11208" align="aligncenter" width="556"] Samsung Galaxy IV.[/caption] Over the past few years, the tech press has painted the competition in the mobile-device space as fund…
• Cloudera’s Sentry Offers Access Security for Big Data

  Cloudera is stepping further into the security arena with Sentry, an open-source project that provides an authorization framework for Apache Hadoop. The security module is designed to make Hadoop…
• IBM and Pivotal Will Collaborate on Cloud Foundry

  IBM and Pivotal will collaborate on the open-source Cloud Foundry PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) platform. Cloud Foundry has a somewhat convoluted history for a relatively new product. In December…
• Apple CEO Tim Cook on High-End Smartphones, iOS in Cars, More

  Apple CEO Tim Cook believes that the high-end smartphone market still has significant room to grow. “I don't subscribe to the common view that the higher end, if you will, of the smartphone marke…
• Oracle Suggests Utility Companies Could Do More with Analytics

  Oracle is back to plugging smart grids again. A new study by the tech giant suggests that many North American utilities are failing to use data analytics to improve customer service, even though…