Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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More Companies Will Launch B.I. Initiatives by 2016: Gartner
Revenue from business-intelligence software will hit $13.8 billion this year, on its way to $17.1 billion by 2016, according to new estimates from research firm Gartner. “Every company has numero… -
Twitter Says Hawaii the Happiest State: Research
[caption id="attachment_7941" align="aligncenter" width="618"] In this "heat map" derived from the study's Twitter data, bluer means sadder; more red equals rising happy sentiment.[/caption] If y… -
Amazon Launches AWS OpsWorks for Boosted Cloud Management
Amazon has devoted considerable resources to building out the features of its EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) platform, and with good reason: as one of the more high-profile options in the world of s… -
Ubuntu on Tablets Announced
Fresh off debuting an Ubuntu smartphone operating system, Canonical is expanding its mobile presence with an Ubuntu tablet OS targeted at even larger touchscreens. The Touch Developer Preview of… -
Hacker Group Connected to Chinese Military: Mandiant Report
A new report from cyber-security firm Mandiant draws connections between a prolific hacker group and the Chinese military. “Mandiant continues to track dozens of APT [Advanced Persistent Threat]… -
FCC Report Suggests U.S. Broadband Remains Speedy
For anyone who ever screamed at their laptop in borderline-incoherent rage as an app downloaded at a glacially slow pace, cursing everything from their Internet provider down to whomever strung t… -
Amazon’s Redshift Reaches General Availability
Amazon’s Redshift data-warehousing service has moved out of limited preview to general availability. That means any Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer can use Redshift to warehouse petabytes of d… -
Google Flu Trends Suggests Limits of Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is the way of the future, argue some pundits. Why rely on trained analysts or a handful of elected officials, their logic goes, when you can obtain similar—if not better—results by… -
HP Considering Android Tablets: Report
Undeterred—or at least not entirely humbled—by the spectacular crash-and-burn of its webOS tablets and smartphones, Hewlett-Packard is reportedly prepping a new round of mobile devices loaded wit… -
The AI Framework That Could Outperform Your Doctor
While there’s little chance your flesh-and-blood physician will be replaced by a robot anytime soon, new advancements in machine learning could help improve healthcare and patient outcomes. The s…