Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• 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…
• Google Search Appliance Updated with Expanded Search, SharePoint

  Google has updated its Google Search Appliance, which hunts through companies’ in-house databases for relevant information. Google claims the Appliance leverages its years’ worth of work with sea…
• IBM PureData Offers Models for Big Data Analytics

  IBM wants to help its clients more effectively crunch massive amounts of data, and it’s doing so by introducing a new PureData System to its PureSystems integrated-systems line. The PureData Syst…
• SAS Updates Text Analysis Software

  [caption id="attachment_5057" align="aligncenter" width="500"] A solid text-analysis software platform can mine insight from a lot of different things, but not a stack of actual paper. For that,…
• Can Windows 8’s Windows Store Reach 100,000 Apps by January?

  [caption id="attachment_5052" align="aligncenter" width="580"] The Windows Store.[/caption] If the number of available apps means the difference between life and death for a typical mobile platfo…
• Motorola's Whacked Lapdock Can Make Raspberry Pi Base

  [caption id="attachment_5042" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Although Motorola killed the Webtop, the device can apparently serve as a foundation for Raspberry Pi.[/caption] Poor sales have dri…
• HP CEO Whitman Talks Tablets, Cloud as Part of Turnaround Message

  [caption id="attachment_5027" align="aligncenter" width="500"] HP CEO Meg Whitman.[/caption] The cloud could play an integral role in pulling Hewlett-Packard out of its current slump, according t…