Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• 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…
• Hurricane Sandy Knocks Out Websites, Data Centers

  [caption id="attachment_5570" align="aligncenter" width="441"] Hurricane Sandy devastates the East Coast.[/caption] Hurricane Sandy barreled ashore Oct. 29 and devastated a wide swath of New Jers…
• Apple’s Scott Forstall Departure Tied to Ives Battle, iOS 6 Maps

  [caption id="attachment_5545" align="aligncenter" width="575"] Scott Forstall headed development of Apple's iOS.[/caption] Apple CEO Tim Cook is widely perceived as a quiet and courtly man, but h…
• Google Crisis Map Details Hurricane Sandy Path

  [caption id="attachment_5516" align="aligncenter" width="535"] Google Map showing Hurricane Sandy's projected path.[/caption] As Hurricane Sandy rumbles toward the East Coast, Google has decided…
• Google Rolls Out New Nexus Smartphones, Tablets

  [caption id="attachment_5535" align="aligncenter" width="547"] Photo Sphere, a new feature of Android 4.2 (which Google calls a new "flavor" of Jelly Bean).[/caption] Hurricane Sandy may have for…
• South Carolina Suffers Massive Data Breach

  South Carolina’s Department of Revenue’s computer system was hacked, resulting in the compromise of some 3.6 million Social Security numbers on top of nearly 400,000 credit and debit card numbers…
• Is Crowdsourcing the Future of Data Analytics?

  Organizations face a shortage of data analysts. That’s been the conclusion of several surveys and studies over the past few quarters, including a recent Gartner research note that concluded filli…