Articles by Nick Kolakowski

• RIM CEO Heins: BlackBerry Can Rebound

  Is Research In Motion in a death spiral? RIM CEO Thorsten Heins doesn’t seem to think so: in a new interview with The Telegraph, he suggested that BlackBerry smartphones represent a “secure, entr…
• Microsoft Dumping "Metro" Design Name: Reports

  [caption id="attachment_3191" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Microsoft's "Metro" design aesthetic, as seen in Windows 8.[/caption] At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microso…
• Apple’s iPhone 5 Will Offer Bluetooth, 8-Pin Dock Connector: Reports

  [caption id="attachment_3163" align="aligncenter" width="547"] Apple's iOS 6 will offer features such as Passbook, which groups e-tickets and coupons into a central hub.[/caption] As usual in the…
• Hadoop Market Will Hit $2.2 Billion by 2018: Report

  A new report by Market Research Media suggests that the current spike of interest in Apache Hadoop will continue for the next several years. Apache Hadoop is an open-source framework for reliably…
• SAP HANA Now Helping Analyze Social Sentiment

  [caption id="attachment_3112" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Astute data analysis can mean the difference between empty shopping carts, and those full of a company's products.[/caption] SAP’s n…
• Dropbox Amps Security After Breach

  [caption id="attachment_3091" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Guard your passwords, or a dude in a ski mask will climb out of your screen.[/caption] Dropbox plans on introducing two-factor authe…
• Rackspace Turns On OpenStack Cloud

  [caption id="attachment_3098" align="aligncenter" width="462"] Rackspace's Cloud Control Panel offers filters, quick-glance status, action "cogs" for performing tasks, search, and tags.[/caption]…
• Pinterest Analytics Opened with Pinfluencer

  [caption id="attachment_3072" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Pinterest: People's random images posted up for all to see. Also, a potential data mine.[/caption] The usefulness of social networks…
• Netflix Unleashes Open-Source Chaos Monkey

  [caption id="attachment_3030" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Chaos Monkey is basically the digital version of this fella.[/caption] Some tools help users store and analyze data. More than a few…
• Cloud-Based File Services Raise Concerns for SMBs, Despite Use

  Employees of small and midsized businesses (SMBs) are turning to cloud-based file-sharing services such as Dropbox, and their employers are letting it happen—but not without some significant conc…