Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• IBM’s Big Flash Cash: Shot Across Oracle’s Bow

  [caption id="attachment_9119" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Flash aims to make "traditional" spinning drives a thing of the past.[/caption] IBM is pumping more money into its Flash technology…
• Windows 8 Partially Responsible for PC Implosion: IDC

  PC shipments are tumbling into the basement, and IDC partially blames Windows 8. The research firm estimated worldwide PC shipments in the first quarter of 2013 at 76.3 million units, down 13.9 p…
• How Google Fiber Could Do Some National Good

  Within hours of Google announcing that Austin, Texas would be the next lucky recipient of its Google Fiber initiative, AT&T released a statement indicating that it was willing to build a high-spe…
• Rackspace Releases Mobile Cloud Stacks for Developers

  Salesforce isn’t the only company pushing new mobile-developer tools this week: Rackspace has announced the release of new mobile cloud stacks, designed to help developers build and deploy mobile…
• 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…