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Bitcoin’s Big Week: Value Reaches $140; BitcoinStore Sells $500,000; BitPay Hits $5.2M for March
Bitcoin had an extremely exciting month of March with the explosive growth of the value of the cryptocurrency—with it approaching and exceeding $140 in early April—and there’s so much news that there’s just not enough time to cover it in individual articles. Not to mention that March represented the first ever near-crisis for Bitcoin when ...
Local Governments Can Now Accept Bitcoin with E-Gov Link
Municipalities who use the e-government suite of tools from E-Gov Link can now accept Bitcoin as payment for numerous city services including permits, utilities, class or event registration, shelter reservations, or even parking tickets. According to E-Gov already 60% of the states have cities that use their technology to offer connection to the public (the ...
Possible Facebook.com Service Disruption (Update: It’s back!)
It appears that Facebook.com is offline right now with a likely service disruption. Both Down Right Now and Down For Everyone Or Just Me? suggest that the social media giant is offline and has been for a little while now. No news available currently as to what is causing the service disruption. There have been a ...
This Week in DDoS: CyberBunker vs. Spamhaus, MtGox Bitcoin Exchange and Dwolla, SendGrid
It’s been an interesting week for the concept of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) and one of the biggest takeaways of everything we’ve seen is that the total scale of DDoS is increasing. Evermore it’s not just the usual Red Queen race in play, but attackers are thinking and innovating methods of using infrastructure ...
Social Media Fallout: Adria Richards and #Donglegate
It’s the era of Internet drama as much as it’s the Information Age; that series of tubes presents a whole new way for rumors and recriminations to spread and it provides a platform for voices that otherwise wouldn’t know about any given event. By now, most people are aware of the fallout from a situation ...
When Google Glass Goes Wrong: The Low Down and Dirty
It’s been for a while now that I’ve been extolling the virtues of wearable computing, and the advent of Google Glass; in fact, it’s easy to see how people could do some awesome things with Glass…but with every amazing technology comes drawbacks. In the case of Glass it’s been fueling the undercurrent of distrust and ...
Google Glass and iWatch: Next-Gen Wearable Computing is All About the Sensors, Baby
Computing technology has come a long way from mainframes that took up entire floors of buildings and now what was once mammoth huge fits in my pocket. This is the crux of wearable computing: making the big small and giving mobility to big data and big information. Much of the mobile environment has been focused ...
From Primer to Pro : Software-Led Infrastructure for John Doe & CIOs
Welcome to the second-to-last week of March, and Software Led-Infrastructure is the best horse out of the gate in the tech industry. For CIOs this is a big deal—and for non-CIOs in the audience here’s a very good primer into what SLI is, and what it means for us. On the SLI front, Oracle is not standing ...
Bitcoin Value Hits $70 and Keeps Climbing; Cyprus Bailout Connection Speculated
Bitcoin has seen a sudden and remarkable boost in value over the past few days that coincides with talks by cash-strapped Cyprus to raid their banking system in order to pay a $13 billion bailout tab—a reporter at BGR noticed that Spaniards became suddenly interested in a trio of iOS Bitcoin apps. Since the bailout ...
Abusing the Cloud: When Solo Games Get Connected
Recently, EA came out with the most recent installment of SimCity–a game that didn’t classically contain multiplayer and spoke to more or less a core solo-player audience. However, in EA Maxis’s infinite wisdom SimCitty 5 was launched to be always-online and multiplayer only. Hence the name of this sort of game “always-connected” referring to the ...
