Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Facebook Pauses AdSense-Style Ad Network: Report

  Facebook has halted plans to launch the social-networking equivalent of Google’s AdSense network, according to a new report from AllThingsD. As originally envisioned, the Facebook advertising net…
• IBM Acquires StoredIQ for Data Governance

  [caption id="attachment_6670" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Wrangling data (both digitized and on paper) is a growing issue for many organizations.[/caption] IBM has acquired StoredIQ, a priva…
• Google Expanding Kansas City Network Experiment

  [caption id="attachment_6626" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Google Fiber's planned expansion in Kansas City.[/caption] Google’s high-speed broadband experiment in Kansas City has evidently pro…
• Instagram Can Now Sell Your Precious Photos

  [caption id="attachment_6618" align="aligncenter" width="556"] Your sepia-toned images could make Instagram and Facebook some serious cash.[/caption] Remember that photograph of your dog you snap…
• Are Mobile Devices Ready for Big Data?

  [caption id="attachment_6587" align="aligncenter" width="517"] Zoomdata offers just one example of how Big Data visualizations are being formatted for mobile viewing.[/caption] While many pundits…
• Cisco May Sell Off Linksys: Bloomberg

  Cisco could sell off its Linksys division, according to unnamed sources speaking to Bloomberg Dec. 16. Those sources apparently told the news service that Linksys “is likely to fetch much less th…
• Will Tablets Kill Off E-Readers?

  Are e-readers doomed? A research note earlier this week from IHS iSuppli suggested that, after years of solid growth, the e-book reader market was “on an alarmingly precipitous decline” thanks to…
• Power-Utility Analytics Will Hit $3.8 Billion a Year by 2020: Report

  Spending on power-utility analytics could hit $3.8 billion a year worldwide by 2020, according to a new forecast by GTM Research. Utility companies will employ a broad array of analytics tools, r…
• Seattle Wants Google Fiber-Style Network

  [caption id="attachment_6565" align="aligncenter" width="561"] Seattle's vision for a citywide high-speed network begins with a demonstration project in 12 neighborhoods.[/caption] In November, G…
• Google Zeitgeist 2012 Lists World’s Top Searches

  [caption id="attachment_6537" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Google built all this, at not-inconsiderable expense, so you could find out more about Gangnam Style.[/caption] Google has spent yea…