Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• 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…
• 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…