Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Google Fiber Expands to Austin, Texas

  [caption id="attachment_9060" align="aligncenter" width="497"] Keep Austin weird, but give it more high-speed Internet options.[/caption] Google Fiber’s next stop: Austin, Texas. That’s not a tot…
• Checking a Smartphone Map While Driving Banned in California

  According to an appellate court in California, checking your smartphone while driving your Volkswagen (or any other vehicle) is officially verboten. In January 2012, one Steven R. Spriggs was pul…
• Oracle Updates Its BI Tools, But Does It Have the Right Data Strategy?

  [caption id="attachment_9018" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Oracle's latest product tweaks emphasize visualization.[/caption] Oracle has announced updates to its business-analytics software, i…
• Facebook Home Picked Over by Analysts

  [caption id="attachment_8978" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Zuckerberg and company unveil Home.[/caption] Say what you will about Facebook, the company is ambitious: in a Feb. 5 press conferen…
• IBM Doubling Down on Big Data with Hadoop, In-Memory Offerings

  IBM is betting it can leverage its name to become a big player in the Apache Hadoop market. Big Blue claims its PureData System for Hadoop can speed the time necessary to deploy the open-source f…
• Microsoft, New York City Will Market Crime-Analytics System

  In August 2012, New York City announced it would partner with Microsoft on an analytics platform that could collect and analyze public-safety data in real time. If the system worked as planned, i…
• Twitter Adds Mobile-App Developer Tools

  [caption id="attachment_8931" align="aligncenter" width="592"] With the new ability to deep-link mobile apps to Tweets, Twitter users will have the ability to open and view content within an app,…
• Dataguise Locking Down Sensitive Data on Hadoop

  It’s one thing to store and analyze massive amounts of corporate data—but how to do also ensure that data remains secure? Data-security firm Dataguise is offering a solution to that conundrum wit…
• ASCO’s CancerLinQ Brings Big Data to Cancer Treatment

  Whatever the possible uses of Big Data platforms—improving a company’s IT security, creating a better jet engine, or merely picking through customer data—it’s increasingly clear that medicine is…
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  Microsoft Considering Smaller Windows 8 Tablets

  Microsoft might want a piece of the mini-tablet market. Earlier in March, Microsoft lowered the minimum screen resolution for Windows 8 tablets, from 1,366 x 768 pixels to 1024 x 768 pixels. “Thi…