Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
Apple Negotiating to Buy Waze for Mapping: Rumor
Apple executives are reportedly mulling whether to acquire Waze, a builder of fully featured mapping apps. According to TechCrunch, which drew its latest information from unnamed sources close to… -
Buffalo Bills Latest NFL Team to Embrace Data Analytics
Can data-analytics software win a Super Bowl? That’s what the Buffalo Bills are betting on: the NFL team will create an analytics department to crunch player data, building on a model already wel… -
Instagram User Drop Blamed on Holidays, Not Terms of Use
When AppData first posted a graph (above) showing a 25 percent drop in Instagram’s daily active users, it sparked a flurry of discussion online—much of it focused on the recent controversy over t… -
Facebook’s Poke, Snapchat Highlight Issues with Secure Communications
[caption id="attachment_6826" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Facebook's Poke can vaporize messages between users.[/caption] In Ye Olden Days before the creation of the Web, disposing of a writt… -
Instagram Retreats Back to Old Policies
The Instagram saga—or tempest in a teapot, for everyone who doesn’t use photo-sharing services—continues to roll on its merry way. Days after rolling out a revised Terms of Use that upset users o… -
Oracle Adds Eloqua to Cloud Portfolio
Oracle has agreed to acquire Eloqua, which builds cloud-based “marketing automation and revenue performance management software,” for approximately $871 million. Oracle plans to use Eloqua’s asse…