Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• SAP’s Business Suite Now Enhanced by HANA

  SAP is betting even more on HANA, its in-memory database technology. Built to reduce latency and infrastructure associated with data analysis, HANA has become an integral part of SAP’s product po…
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  Google Flu Trends Indicates High Sickness Levels Across U.S.

  There are indications that flu cases are up this year—as anyone who’s spent time on a bus or subway filled with coughing people can gladly attest. And Google is doing its best to monitor the spre…
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  Nokia's Windows Phone Sales Pick Up, As Symbian Lingers

  Nokia enjoyed a pretty healthy fourth quarter 2012, at least in terms of its Lumia smartphones performing better than expected. While that’s certainly good news for the struggling Finnish phone-m…
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  The Billion-Dollar Startup: Inside Obama’s Campaign Tech

  A presidential campaign is many things to many people: a reason to hope in the future, a wellspring of jokes and debate fodder, an annoyance to tune out, a chance to participate in the civic proc…
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  Apple Toying with Low-Cost iPhone Design: Rumor

  Apple is experimenting with a “lower-end” iPhone design, according The Wall Street Journal. Citing unnamed sources “briefed on the matter,” the Journal suggests that the prototype under considera…
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  IBM, SAS, SAP Top Forrester’s Predictive-Analytics Firms List

  How do the world’s most prominent analytics firms match up against one another? That’s a tricky question—while the companies that actually use those firms’ platforms will talk for hours about the…
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  Google Wiring New York City's Chelsea for Free Wi-Fi

  On the heels of rolling out high-speed broadband to Kansas City, Google is bringing more connectivity to another American municipality: New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, which will receive Wi…
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  Library of Congress Offers Update on Huge Twitter Archive Project

  Back in April 2010, the Library of Congress agreed to archive four years’ worth of public Tweets. Even by the standards of the nation’s most famous research library, the goal was an ambitious one…
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  Does CES Matter Anymore?

  A few years back, an editor at a prominent technology publication pointed out what he saw as the central flaw of the Consumer Electronics Show, which brings hundreds of companies to Las Vegas eve…
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  Analytics, Cloud Will Benefit from Growing Tech Market: Forrester

  The next two years could prove very good ones for tech, if new data from Forrester proves accurate. The research firm is predicting that the global technology market will grow by 5.4 percent in 2…