Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Google Adds New Capabilities to BigQuery

  Google has added some new capabilities to Google BigQuery, its cloud-based analytics platform, including the ability to aggregate large numbers of distinct values, as well as native support for i…
• Mozilla Releases Firefox OS Simulator 3.0

  [caption id="attachment_8504" align="aligncenter" width="482"] Rotation simulation is one of the newest features.[/caption] Three months after it released Version 1.0 of the Firefox OS Simulator,…
• Netflix Launches Cloud Prize

  After contributing project after project to the open-source community, Netflix has decided to see what you can do, instead. Netflix has launched the Netflix Cloud Prize, which will pay ten develo…
• VMware Launching “Hybrid” IaaS Platform

  VMware doesn’t want to be left out of this whole public-cloud thing. Following in the footsteps of Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Amazon and other IT giants, VMware is releasing a public Infrastructure-a…
• The Cost of Cyber-Spying: Boredom, Bitterness

  [caption id="attachment_8456" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Shanghai.[/caption] People’s Liberation Army hackers: they’re just like us. As noted by IT security firm Mandiant, and detailed in a…
• Microsoft Will Only Hold 10 Percent of Tablet Market by 2017: IDC

  [caption id="attachment_8452" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Windows 8 tablets: too large for their own good?[/caption] Microsoft hopes that Windows 8 will give it a significant presence in the…
• SXSW: Making Big Data Personal

  [caption id="attachment_8369" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Ed Hunsinger talks about how, with the help of a little hardware, he managed to capture tons of data about much of his life.[/captio…
• SXSW: Stephen Wolfram Talks Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha Growth

  AUSTIN, TX—Stephen Wolfram is jumping aboard the “cloud and mobility” bandwagon. At this year’s SXSW conference, Wolfram—most famous in tech circles as the chief designer of the Mathematica softw…
• SXSW: Nate Silver Discusses Data Bias, Strangeness of Fame

  [caption id="attachment_8374" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Nate Silver speeds through his keynote.[/caption] AUSTIN, TX—Nate Silver feels a little odd about his fame. That’s not to say that h…
• SXSW: Google’s Amit Singhal Talks Natural-Language Search, Mobile

  [caption id="attachment_8364" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Guy Kawasaki (l) talks search with Google SVP Amit Singhal (r) at SXSW.[/caption] AUSTIN, TX—How do you build a search engine that’s…