Articles by Nick Kolakowski

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  Office for Android, iOS Coming in 2013: Report

  Office for Android and iOS is apparently due early next year, according to unnamed sources speaking to The Verge. “Office Mobile will debut in the form of free apps that allow Android and iOS use…
• Google Doubts Apple Will Approve Maps App: Report

  Holding your breath for a Google Maps app for iOS? It might prove a long, blue-in-the-face wait. According to The Guardian, itself citing unnamed “sources at Google familiar with its mapping plan…
• Google Android Apps Could Present Data Security Issue: Bit9

  Google Android might have enjoyed massive growth over the past few years—research firm IDC recently estimated that the mobile operating system accounted for 75 percent of the 181.1 million smartp…
• EMC Acquires Silver Tail Systems for Big Data Security

  EMC announced Oct. 30 that it’s acquired Silver Tail Systems, a privately held firm that specializes in behavioral analysis and “real-time Web session intelligence,” for an undisclosed sum. The a…
• Amazon’s Android Photo App Hints at Cloud Rivalries

  [caption id="attachment_5620" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Amazon's Cloud Services are battling those of Google, Microsoft, and Apple.[/caption] Amazon has introduced a free app, Cloud Photos…
• SAP Jam Spreads Enterprise Social Networking

  [caption id="attachment_5615" align="aligncenter" width="618"] SAP Jam will become a competitor to Salesforce and other social-enterprise platform vendors.[/caption] Not to be outdone by Salesfor…
• China's Tianhe-2 Supercomputer Aims for World's Fastest

  [caption id="attachment_5607" align="aligncenter" width="604"] The U.S.-based Dawn, a 500 teraFLOP/s (trillion floating operations per second) IBM BlueGene/P system, is just one supercomputer is…
• Nexus 7 Sales Intensify Tablet Competition

  [caption id="attachment_5602" align="aligncenter" width="400"] The Nexus 7 is reportedly close to selling 1 million units a month.[/caption] Sales of the Nexus 7 tablet are close to 1 million uni…
• Windows Azure Finds Ultimate Use: “Halo 4”

  [caption id="attachment_5587" align="aligncenter" width="605"] Master Chief ponders the mysteries of universe.[/caption] Master Chief, a personality-free but deadly efficient soldier in the far f…
• Microsoft Finally Releases Windows Phone SDK 8.0

  [caption id="attachment_5575" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Microsoft rolled out actress Jessica Alba as part of its Windows Phone 8 launch, but most developers will probably care more about t…