Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive
When it comes to storing vast amounts of data, your options are fairly limited. You can choose a “traditional” hard drive with spinning disks, more newfangled Solid State Drives (SSD), or—if you… -
Wolfram Alpha Updates Facebook Analytics Features
Wolfram Alpha has upgraded its Personal Analytics for Facebook module, giving users the ability to dissect their own social-networking data in new ways. Launched in 2009, Wolfram Alpha bills itse… -
Big Data Hype is Imploding: Gartner Analyst
Big Data is plunging into a “trough of disillusionment” that will dissuade many companies from pursuing analytics technology, according to a Gartner analyst. Gartner regularly updates what it ter… -
Microsoft’s Tablet Strategy, Take Two: Surface Pro Coming Feb.
Microsoft has announced that its Surface Pro tablet, loaded with Windows 8, will arrive on store shelves Feb. 9. The Surface tablets represent a considerable gamble for Microsoft. Rather than sel… -
Amazon Launches New EC2 Instances for Hungry Applications
In its quest to grant companies and developers a thoroughly ridiculous amount of cloud-computing power, Amazon has launched yet another EC2 instance for in-memory computing. The new High Memory C… -
Firefox OS Smartphones Arriving for Developers
For quite some time Mozilla has been working on Firefox OS, a lightweight mobile OS based on HTML5. Now it’s whipped the curtain back from the first developer preview phones, developed by Geeksph… -
RIM CEO Heins Talks Possible Hardware Sell-Off, BlackBerry 10
Research In Motion could sell off its hardware arm following the launch of BlackBerry 10, CEO Thorsten Heins told German newspaper Die Welt. (Hat-tip to Slashgear for ferreting out the interview.… -
Nokia Issues 3D Printing Kit for Smartphone Cases
If there’s one technology gaining a lot of hype these days, it’s 3D printing, which lets anyone with the right machinery quickly craft a solid object from a digital model. The 3D printer stacks l… -
The Open Compute Project Could Make Big Data More Affordable
Facebook seems to have shifted its long-running Open Compute Project (OCP) into a whole new gear. At this week’s Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, the social network and its partners announced… -
Facebook’s Graph Search Kicks Off the War with Google
Google CEO Larry Page didn’t exactly pull any punches in a new Wired interview, especially when it came to his rivals. When asked about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ very public attempt to go “the…