Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Facebook Should Charge for Ad-Free Mode: Biz Stone

  [caption id="attachment_11131" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Facebook's revenue efforts include monetizing mobile devices.[/caption] Facebook costs nothing, its users’ untold hours of procrast…
• Apple Buys HopStop: Report

  [caption id="attachment_11114" align="aligncenter" width="618"] HopStop is known for its tools that direct people from Point A to B via public transportation or walking.[/caption] Apple’s on a bu…
• SAP Experiencing Same Software-Revenue Grind As Other Firms

  As with so many other companies, the transition to next-generation software platforms is apparently giving SAP a little bit of trouble. Although the company reported a significant rise in revenue…
• Microsoft's Surface RT: Doomed From Day One

  [caption id="attachment_11072" align="aligncenter" width="593"] Microsoft's Surface tablet with a whole lot of cover-keyboards.[/caption] Last fall, Microsoft launched its Surface RT tablet with…
• Tech Firms Planning Transparency Push

  Now things might get real: a “broad alliance” of 63 technology companies and civil liberties organizations plan on demanding more transparency about U.S. government surveillance programs, accordi…
• Oracle’s Exalytics Release Hints at Continuing Hardware Dilemma

  [caption id="attachment_11028" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Oracle's analytics in a box.[/caption] Oracle just can’t quit hardware—at least, not yet. This week, Oracle announced a new release…
• Microsoft Refutes Claims of NSA Involvement

  [caption id="attachment_11019" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Microsoft campus.[/caption] Following in the footsteps of Google, Microsoft is asking the U.S. Attorney General to permit the relea…
• Actian Actually Putting Its Acquisitions to Use

  It’s not enough to simply purchase a whole lot of startups: sooner or later, the bigger corporation doing the buying will actually need to integrate those startups into the whole. That’s the chal…
• Google Chromebooks Gaining in Sub-$300 Laptop Market

  [caption id="attachment_10941" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Chromebooks: Not yet an existential threat to Windows, but making some gains.[/caption] Are Chromebooks the new netbooks? A few yea…
• Steve Ballmer Reorganizing Microsoft

  [caption id="attachment_10930" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Microsoft's Redmond campus: lots of excitable people there today.[/caption] Microsoft’s long-rumored reorganization has begun. Rumo…