Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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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… -
Apigee Insights Takes Pulse of App Economy
Businesses have increasingly turned to mobile and Web apps as a source of revenue and customer feedback. That’s good for the developers and software engineers actually building the apps, not to m… -
Apple’s iWatch: What's the Point?
In the past few days, the Apple “iWatch” has transformed from vague rumor to a device rocketing toward full production. A new report from Bloomberg claims that a team of “about 100 product design… -
Tesla, Ford, Amazon Hint at Cloudy Future for Cars
The automobile, once the most analog of technologies, is rapidly becoming a smartphone on wheels: Amazon announced Feb. 13 that Ford SYNC Applink-equipped vehicles will include the Amazon Cloud P… -
Apple CEO Tim Cook Talks Acquisitions, New Products
After years of riding a tsunami of positive publicity, Apple finds itself pushing back against a rising perception that its best years are behind it. Not that the underlying metrics support such… -
Twitter, American Express Partner for Hashtag Purchasing
American Express has announced a partnership with Twitter, giving customers the ability to sync “eligible cards” with the social network. Tweeting special product hashtags (i.e., #uselessjunk) wi… -
Bill Gates Talks Databases, Free Software on Reddit
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates spent the majority of his recent “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit discussing his philanthropic work and the chances of eradicating certain diseases in the third…