Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• SXSW: Al Gore Talks Surveillance Culture, Spider Goats

  [caption id="attachment_8359" align="aligncenter" width="589"] Clearly knowing his SXSW audience, Gore also dropped an Indiana Jones reference at a crucial juncture.[/caption] AUSTIN, TX—Former v…
• Companies Still Wrestling with Data Analytics

  Companies are spending more on data analytics platforms, as well as experts capable of mining internal and external data-sources for insight. But are those companies actually putting those resour…
• Cloud Backfire: SimCity’s Disastrous Launch

  [caption id="attachment_8283" align="aligncenter" width="558"] The latest SimCity.[/caption] On paper, it must have seemed like a great idea to somebody: design a long-anticipated video game so t…
• SourceForge Launches Enterprise Directory

  [caption id="attachment_8280" align="aligncenter" width="618"] As part of the release, SourceForge has updated its Project Summary pages with new content.[/caption] SourceForge (Slashdot’s sister…
• Facebook Details the Software Engineering Behind Graph Search

  [caption id="attachment_8249" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Facebook's Graph Search needed to handle constant updates to the social network's entities and relationships.[/caption] Facebook’s G…
• Microsoft Software Glitch Leads to $732 Million Fine

  [caption id="attachment_8225" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Imagine these Euros in an enormous stack. That's how much Microsoft will need to pay to settle the European Commission's fine.[/capt…
• Google Prepping Amazon Prime Rival: Report

  Watch out, Amazon Prime: Google reportedly wants a piece of that free-delivery action. According to TechCrunch, the search-engine giant is prepping “Google Shopping Express,” which will offer sam…
• Postbooks Offers a Unique Spin on ERP Platforms

  IT vendors large and small have pushed out their own variations on ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software over the past few years. Whether major fi…
• Facebook Ramps Up Google Competition with Atlas Acquisition

  [caption id="attachment_8157" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Facebook likely hopes the Atlas assets will help it counter Google's advertising juggernaut.[/caption] Imagine the battle between Fa…
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  Scientists Teach Rats the Vulcan Mind-Meld

  The Vulcan mind-meld, that longtime staple of science fiction, could be a few big steps closer to becoming a reality: researchers have enabled a real-time transfer of “behaviorally meaningful sen…