Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Bill Gates Opens Up About Steve Jobs in CBS Interview

  [caption id="attachment_9734" align="aligncenter" width="605"] Bill Gates talks to 60 Minutes.[/caption] Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates displayed a bit of emotion when talking to CBS’s 60 Minute…
• Six Steps for Improving Automation ROI

  There is no doubt that IT automation has “crossed the chasm,” moving from early adoption to much broader use in many organizations. Few would argue with the goal of lifting employees out of basic…
• New Nexus 7 and Google Maps Could Debut at Google I/O

  [caption id="attachment_9712" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The next Nexus 7 could feature an upgraded screen and processor.[/caption] The Google I/O conference kicks off May 15-17 at San Fran…
• The Onion Describes How the SEA Hacked Its Systems

  [caption id="attachment_9681" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Mess with The Onion, and they'll lampoon you to death.[/caption] For comedy publication The Onion, a recent cyber-attack by the Syri…
• Facebook Negotiating $1 Billion Deal for Waze: Report

  [caption id="attachment_9677" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Waze offers crowd-sourced navigation updates.[/caption] Facebook seems on the verge of dropping another billion dollars on yet anoth…
• Splunk and Cloudera Alliance Hints at New Big Data Landscape

  [caption id="attachment_9686" align="aligncenter" width="596"] The Splunk Enterprise platform digests machine data from a variety of sources, including mobile devices and Websites.[/caption] Splu…
• Diablo III Gold Bug Highlights Pitfalls of Virtual Currencies

  [caption id="attachment_9659" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Where mah money?![/caption] Virtual currencies are undergoing something of a renaissance, thanks in large part to the attention focu…
• Stephen Wolfram Hints at Future of Personal Analytics

  [caption id="attachment_9655" align="aligncenter" width="519"] Wolfram Alpha crunched Facebook data to paint a "portrait" of how people live (at least according to the social network).[/caption]…
• SAP Rolling Out HANA Enterprise Cloud Service

  SAP’s future is getting a little cloudier. The company has announced SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service, which delivers a variety of ERP, CRM, data-warehousing, and other applications via—you gues…
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  Adobe’s Creative Cloud Illustrates How the Cloud Costs You

  [caption id="attachment_9611" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Adobe's Creative Cloud: not your hipster uncle's creativity software.[/caption] Adobe plans on focusing the bulk of its software-dev…