Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• Can Nokia Save Itself?

  [caption id="attachment_5392" align="aligncenter" width="396"] Nokia's Lumia 920: last gasp, or the beginning of a turnaround?[/caption] Sometimes, a long jump from a burning platform doesn’t end…
• Windows RT vs. Windows 8 Could Burn Consumers

  Earlier this week, Microsoft made its upcoming Surface tablet available for pre-order. The 10.6-inch device, which runs the next version of Windows and features a flexible keyboard cover, will co…
• Companies Want Platform-as-a-Service: IBM

  Earlier this week, IBM released a study showing that 49 percent of IT decision makers see Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) as strategically important. Roughly 20 percent of the 1,500 respondents actu…
• AOL’s Alto Is an Advanced Email Platform, But Can It Earn Buzz?

  Once the reigning champ of the dial-up age, AOL has struggled in recent years to evolve into a Web property capable of competing on equal footing with Google and Yahoo. As part of that evolution,…
• Teradata Launches Aster Big Analytics Appliance

  Teradata has announced the Aster Big Analytics Appliance, which combines open-source Apache Hadoop with Teradata Aster, an analytic platform that combines the SQL-MapReduce framework with data st…
• Google’s New Chromebooks Ready to Battle Windows 8, Tablets

  Much of the tech world’s attention this month is focused on two tablets: Microsoft’s Surface tablets running Windows 8, which just became available for pre-order, and Apple’s much-rumored iPad Mi…
• IBM Upgrades Big Data Security for Hadoop

  If analyzed properly, data can offer all sorts of insights into an organization’s workings. But handling that data also raises issues related to security and compliance. Hence IBM’s new data-secu…
• Global Smartphone Usage Hits 1 Billion

  [caption id="attachment_5292" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Thirty seconds later, this example of smartphone usage ended very, very badly.[/caption] It took sixteen years, but the number of sm…
• The Pirate Bay Sails Into The Cloud

  In a bid to repel boarders—so to speak—the BitTorrent Website The Pirate Bay is apparently moving to the cloud. “Now we've gotten rid of the servers. Slowly and steadily we are getting rid of our…
• Hewlett-Packard Pushes BPO Analytics Services

  Hewlett-Packard’s enterprise-services arm has introduced a suite of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) analytics services designed to help mine insight from the volumes of data flooding organizat…