Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• 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…
• EMC Tackles ‘Accidental’ Data Architecture

  EMC has unveiled a new line of hardware and software designed to protect internal data, as well as beat back some of the data fragmentation that companies naturally accumulate over months or year…
• Google Revamps Maps App for Android

  [caption id="attachment_10921" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The revamped Google Maps app has also been optimized for tablets.[/caption] Google has released a revamped Google Maps app for Andr…
• Microsoft’s Power BI Targets SMB Analytics

  [caption id="attachment_10881" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Power BI for Office 365.[/caption] Not content to leave the small-but-growing field of cloud-based analytics software to its rivals…
• Facebook’s Graph Search Arrives for U.S. Users

  [caption id="attachment_10854" align="aligncenter" width="618"] More material for the NSA?[/caption] Facebook is rolling out its Graph Search platform to its U.S. English-speaking audience. The s…
• New York City Secures .nyc Domain

  New York City, which has devoted considerable effort to developing a “Silicon Alley” tech hub, is getting the top-level domain to go with it: .nyc, which will be available to businesses and indiv…
• Windows 8 Finally Passes Vista: Net Applications

  Windows 8 has finally surpassed the market-share of Windows Vista, according to new data from Net Applications. The tracking firm places Windows 8’s share at 5.1 percent, a shade ahead of Vista a…