Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• 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…
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  Can Flickr and Tumblr Spark a Yahoo Comeback?

  Fresh off purchasing Tumblr for $1.1 billion, Yahoo has moved to the next stage of what’s becoming a company-wide reboot: fixing Flickr, the photo-sharing service that it acquired in 2005 and sub…
• New IBM Software Takes COBOL to the Cloud

  [caption id="attachment_9891" align="aligncenter" width="586"] IBM still rocks the mainframes.[/caption] The COBOL programming language first appeared in 1959. The subcommittee for developing its…
• Yahoo Promises Not to Screw Tumblr Up

  [caption id="attachment_9876" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Is Tumblr the next GeoCities? Yahoo hopes not.[/caption] Yahoo has agreed to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Founded in February 20…
• A Last Aaron Swartz Project Sees the Light of Day

  Before he committed suicide this past January, Aaron Swartz was working on a special open-source project with Wired editor Kevin Poulsen and a group of volunteers. They had a simple goal: create…
• Google I/O Will Double as Big Data Experiment

  [caption id="attachment_9795" align="aligncenter" width="494"] If you're attending I/O, chances are good this hardware is recording at least some of your movements.[/caption] When the Google I/O…
• BlackBerry Q5, BBM for iOS and Android Debut at BlackBerry Live

  [caption id="attachment_9784" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The BlackBerry Q5 is targeted at the global market.[/caption] Wait, wait, back up: BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins is actually interes…