Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Google, Dish Network Talk About Wireless Service: Report

  Why partner with wireless carriers when you can become a wireless carrier? According to a Nov. 15 article in The Wall Street Journal, Google executives have begun talks with Dish Network over bui…
• Rackspace Adds to OpenStack-Powered Private Cloud

  Rackspace has introduced a handful of new features for its OpenStack-powered Private Cloud Software, which the company named “Alamo.” While that’s not exactly the most optimistic of codenames, gi…
• Google Connecting Kansas City to Google Fiber

  Google has begun connecting homes in Kansas City to its Google Fiber broadband network. In a Nov. 13 posting on its Google Fiber Blog, the search-engine giant explained the stages involved in con…
• SAP Issues Windows 8 Business Apps, But Will Others Follow?

  [caption id="attachment_5906" align="aligncenter" width="508"] SAP is betting big on mobile apps.[/caption] Microsoft’s Windows Store for Windows 8 offers a few thousand apps, many of them focuse…
• 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…