Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• 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…
• CERN Testing Cloud for Crunching Universe's Secrets

  [caption id="attachment_10730" align="aligncenter" width="551"] In order to obtain results from its experiments, including those with the Large Hadron Collider, CERN writes its own research and a…
• Google Considering Android Gaming Console: Report

  [caption id="attachment_10694" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The Ouya console (which features games such as "ChronoBlade," shown here) is the first Android gaming platform on the market.[/capt…
• Microsoft Introduces New Azure Features at BUILD

  Windows Azure Mobile Services includes native SDKs for most major mobile platforms.[/caption] In conjunction with its BUILD conference this week in San Francisco, Microsoft has unveiled a handful…
• IBM’s BLU Acceleration Speeds Data Analytics

  [caption id="attachment_10642" align="aligncenter" width="500"] In-memory technology: Big Data's race-car?[/caption] IBM has added new technology to its DB2 database software, designed to make da…