Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Google Says Government Surveillance Increasing Online

  Government surveillance of the Internet is on the rise, according to Google, which recently issued the sixth update of its Transparency Report. Time to break out the tinfoil hats and head for the…
• Oracle Invests in Engine Yard as Part of PaaS Strategy

  Oracle is investing in Engine Yard, a smaller firm that specializes in Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for deploying and maintaining cloud environments. Engine Yard’s development platform supports R…
• SAP Rolls out HANA-Powered CRM at Sapphire Now

  SAP is betting still more on HANA, announcing at its Sapphire Now + SAP TechEd conference in Madrid that the in-memory database technology will undergird its new foray into customer relationship…
• Acer C7 Chromebooks Expand Chrome OS Market

  [caption id="attachment_5850" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The Acer C7 Chromebook.[/caption] Google is following up last month’s Samsung Chromebooks with a new, lower-priced one developed by…
• Apple, HTC Settlement Could Provide Blueprint for Future Deals

  [caption id="attachment_5844" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Apple's iPhone franchise is at the center of the company's many patent-infringement battles.[/caption] Apple and HTC have announced…
• Facebook’s Corona: When Hadoop MapReduce Wasn’t Enough

  [caption id="attachment_5788" align="aligncenter" width="460"] Facebook’s engineers went to the whiteboard and designed a new scheduling framework named “Corona.”[/caption] Facebook’s engineers f…
• CRM, Collaboration Software Among Businesses' Top Picks: IDC

  Software’s enjoyed some healthy growth over the past few years, even as manufacturers of PCs and other hardware have seen their sales and profits implode. But that solid run could be coming to an…
• Cray Unveils XC30 Supercomputer

  [caption id="attachment_5778" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Cray's rendering of the XC30 supercomputer, formerly codenamed "Cascade."[/caption] Cray has unveiled a XC30 supercomputer capable o…
• Samsung’s Galaxy S III Passes iPhone as Quarter’s Top Smartphone

  Apple might have hurled legions of high-priced patent attorneys directly at Samsung’s product portfolio, but all that legal fervor hasn’t stopped Samsung’s Galaxy S III from seizing the title of…
• Google Chrome 23 Delivers Do Not Track

  [caption id="attachment_5757" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Google has implemented Do Not Track for Chrome, but it's not activated by default.[/caption] Google’s latest update to its Web brows…