Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• SAP Unveils HANA Cloud with Database-as-a-Service

  SAP has whipped the curtain back from SAP HANA Cloud, an attempt to take its in-memory database platform online. SAP HANA Cloud will include SAP HANA AppServices for creating applications through…
• Pinterest Analytics on the Rise

  [caption id="attachment_5190" align="aligncenter" width="572"] Pinalytics data-mines Pinterest for pins, boards, and people associated with inputted keywords; the results can be sorted by various…
• Tablets, Smartphones Pressuring PC Shipments: IDC

  Earlier this week, research firm IDC released a report capable of sending even the peppiest hardware manufacturer into the deepest funk: PC shipments declined some 8.6 percent year-over-year for…
• Hadoop Bandwagon Continues with SAS High-Performance Analytics Server

  The Hadoop bandwagon keeps rolling on: SAS announced earlier this week that its SAS High-Performance Analytics Server would rely on the popular data framework as part of its predictive modeling c…
• Linus Torvalds: Patents and Copyrights Problematic in Current Form

  The past few years have seen a gradual acceleration in the “Patent Wars” between Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, Google, and other tech giants. Wielding massive intellectual-property portfolios…
• Mozilla Patching Firefox 16 After Security Issue

  Mozilla apparently plans to release a patched version of Firefox 16 on Oct. 11, a day after the organization said it was aware of a security issue with the new browser. That vulnerability doesn’t…
• Hack/Reduce: Boston Needs Big Data Hackers

  [caption id="attachment_5121" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Boston: Big Data center?[/caption] Boston needs Big Data hackers, according to the nonprofit hack/reduce, which is soliciting applic…
• The Cloud Will Expand Human Brain Capacity: Kurzweil

  Futurist and author Ray Kurzweil predicts the cloud will eventually do more than store our emails or feed us streaming movies on demand: it’s going to help expand our brain capacity beyond its cu…
• Microsoft CEO Ballmer: We’re a Devices and Services Company

  [caption id="attachment_5101" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Microsoft executives show off the Surface tablet.[/caption] Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s shareholder letters aren’t exactly grippin…
• VMware: Hey, Other Cloud Services Exist

  [caption id="attachment_5093" align="aligncenter" width="600"] VMware's vSphere Web Client interface[/caption] VMware has updated its cloud-management portfolio to support alternative tools, incl…