Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• NSA Needs Geeks in Utah

  [caption id="attachment_10122" align="aligncenter" width="500"] If you can manage a data center while keeping quiet about it, the NSA might have a job for you.[/caption] Despite a job market for…
• IBM Focuses Its Data-Analytics Tools on Employee Retention

  IBM is rolling out a new data-analytics package designed to make workplaces more efficient and minimize the number of departing employees. The platform consolidates data from corporate surveys, p…
• Motorola Building SkyNet Smartphone

  [caption id="attachment_10092" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Motorola's Droid phones (accompanied by ultra-macho ad campaigns) earned the company some early buzz, but Samsung has become the do…
• Blimps, TV Airwaves Part of Google’s Plan to Spread the Web

  Pop quiz: how do you bring the Internet to underdeveloped parts of the world? The answer, in Google’s case, is with blimps. Yes, blimps—the same ones that float over football stadiums on game day…
• New iOS 7 Design “Black, White, and Flat”: Report

  [caption id="attachment_10126" align="aligncenter" width="493"] Ive will stare you down.[/caption] For anyone who owns an iPhone or iPad and plans on upgrading to iOS 7 when it finally rolls out…
• Walking the Galapagos with Google

  In the early days, Street View must have been a relatively easy project for Google to execute, considering the financial resources and employees at its disposal: strap a set of high-tech cameras…
• How to Activate Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication

  [caption id="attachment_9972" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Twitter: Now a little more secure.[/caption] Twitter is now offering two-factor authentication, a feature that could help prevent em…
• VMware Pushing Hybrid IaaS Offering

  VMware has launched a “hybrid” Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud that it calls vCloud Hybrid Service, built atop the company’s vSphere platform and incorporating a variety of software-defi…
• Hitachi and the Great Hardware Conundrum

  Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (a subsidiary of Hitachi) has announced new services that will allow enterprises to more readily adopt cloud computing, starting with an integrated, on-premises a…
• IBM’s Watson Entering Customer Service Market

  IBM's Watson supercomputer. IBM’s Watson supercomputing platform will now crunch consumer data. Big Blue has whipped the curtain back from the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor, which it claims will…