Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• IBM, UCLA Collaborating on Big-Data Monitor for Brain Injuries

  IBM is collaborating with Excel Medical Electronics (EME) and the UCLA Department of Neurosurgery on a system that could help predict dangerous brain pressure in patients with traumatic head inju…
• Google Reader to Buzz: Google's Graveyard of Dead Projects

  [caption id="attachment_8539" align="aligncenter" width="413"] Google Labs, we hardly knew ye.[/caption] When Google announced the shutdown of Google Reader, its popular RSS reader, it sparked si…
• Dropbox Acquires Mailbox

  [caption id="attachment_8533" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The Mailbox app.[/caption] Cloud-storage provider Dropbox has acquired Mailbox, makers of a popular mobile app for managing email. T…
• Samsung’s Galaxy S4 vs. Apple’s Next iPhone: Battle Royale

  [caption id="attachment_8528" align="aligncenter" width="591"] Samsung's Galaxy S4, as seen during the company's Radio City Music Hall unveiling.[/caption] In past years, Samsung’s product-launch…
• 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…