Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• 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…
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  The Coming Renaissance of Social Network Analytics

  For small business owners (or those single entrepreneurs trying to sell a product), a golden age of do-it-yourself analytics could be upon us, at least when it comes to social-media presence: Yel…
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  Does Yahoo's Summly Buy Signal a Tech Bubble?

  When a major IT company pays a reported $30 million—roughly 90 percent of it in cash—for an iOS app with no monetization strategy and a million downloads since launch, is that a sign that the tec…
• Oracle Acquires Tekelec, Boosting Networking Stakes

  Oracle has agreed to acquire Tekelec, which provides data-management and network-signaling tools to communications companies. As usual for deals of this type, actual terms went undisclosed. “As c…
• Apple Acquires WiFiSLAM for Indoor Maps: Report

  [caption id="attachment_8721" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The ideal maps app would allow the user to see inside historical landmarks.[/caption] While the furor over Apple’s Maps app seems to…
• Massachusetts Considering a Tax on the Cloud

  [caption id="attachment_8701" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Boston is home to a variety of technology firms.[/caption] Massachusetts could be readying to level a state tax on cloud-computing p…
• Is Oracle Getting Hammered by Cloud Rivals?

  For anyone with a major investment in Oracle, the past few days probably haven’t been an occasion for breaking out the champagne: the company’s stock has tumbled in the wake of a weak earnings re…