Articles by Nick Kolakowski

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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…
• New York State Asks Apple, Google, Others to Tackle Smartphone Theft

  Mobile phones have long presented an enticing target for thieves. Now the New York attorney general is asking Apple, Google, Samsung, and other phone vendors to actually do something about it. “I…
• SAP, Oracle Offerings Draw Battle Lines Over BI

  [caption id="attachment_9770" align="aligncenter" width="500"] As usual, the cloud has something to do with it.[/caption] It’s standard practice among IT firms to announce a new product just as a…
• Google Pooling Its Cloud Storage

  Google is breaking down the walls between its products still further, allowing users to slosh the storage from their Gmail, Drive and Google+ Photo accounts into a 15GB common pool. “Separate sto…
• JavaScript Is Eating the World

  [caption id="attachment_9752" align="aligncenter" width="618"] JavaScript tutorial.[/caption] With due apologies to Marc Andreessen, I believe that a very specific type of software is eating the…