Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Google Prepping YouTube Pay Channels: Rumor

  [caption id="attachment_9603" align="aligncenter" width="560"] What would you pay for?[/caption] YouTube wants your money. According to unnamed “people with knowledge of the plan” speaking to The…
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  Dell’s Enstratius Buy Hints at Continuing Cloud Strategy

  Dell has acquired Enstratius, a cloud-software and consulting company, for an undisclosed sum. Enstratius offers tools for cloud-platform governance—i.e., the access controls, key management and…
• Widenius on MySQL: Oracle’s Suffocating It

  Michael Widenius, co-founder of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), has something of a bone to pick with Oracle, which owns the platform’s copyright and trademark. Speaking t…
• Oracle Invests in Ingestible Sensors

  Oracle has made a “strategic minority investment” in digital-health firm Proteus, which builds ingestible sensors. In theory, ingestible sensors could play a key role in the expanding field of me…
• Big Data, Advertising and the Erosion of Privacy

  [caption id="attachment_9572" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Two screens from Google Now for iOS.[/caption] It’s a product cycle familiar to anyone who’s worked with mobile apps or social netwo…
• Google Continues to Show Kansas That Google Fiber Love

  Google hearts Kansas. The search-engine giant announced May 2 that Shawnee, Kansas will become the next city to receive Google Fiber. Google already has plans to install the high-speed broadband…
• Windows RT Failing to Capture Tablet Market

  [caption id="attachment_9539" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Windows RT is virtually identical to Windows 8, but runs on ARM-based devices; Windows 8 is built for x86 hardware.[/caption] Micros…
• BYOD Will Dominate Companies by 2016: Gartner

  For anyone who thought Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies were a passing fad, research firm Gartner has some news for you: using your personal device in an office context will become increasin…
• Cloudera’s Impala Delivers SQL-on-Hadoop

  [caption id="attachment_9492" align="aligncenter" width="412"] Impala operates within the Hadoop framework without the need for specialized systems or proprietary formats.[/caption] Cloudera’s Im…
• How Facebook Built Natural Language into Graph Search

  [caption id="attachment_9463" align="aligncenter" width="618"] It takes a lot of work to build a system capable of showing which of your friends have truly insane hobbies.[/caption] Facebook’s Gr…