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Bitcoin Value Reaches All Time High, Exceeds $32 USD and Continues Upwards
This week, the value of a Bitcoin reached its all time high and is continuing a slow rise upwards. According to Bitcoin Magazine, Wednesday saw Bitcoins exceed it’s previous all time high of $31.9099 USD set on June 9, 2011. Today that USD value has continued to soar on MtGox to $34.41. This is a ...
Earbits Dips into Social Currency to Connect Artists and Listeners
Streaming music is becoming a normal thing for Internet goers now that the streaming music radio is no longer on the chopping block (as often) with Pandora and Spotify making headlines. Many of these ventures maintain themselves with advertisements and subscribers; but this week Earbits–a music streaming site of 3 years running–has announced that they’re implementing ...
EA Looks to Big Data to Level Up the Video Game Industry
Video games have grown from singular personal diversions into a market that spans not just the globe but minds. Many games, such as Battlefield and Call of Duty, serve millions of players a day and numbers close to that concurrently. As they play, they leave behind traces of themselves, behaviors, activity, and even their own ...
Big Data PaaS Provider Continuuity Announces Developer Suite and Sandbox
Today Big Data application fabric provider Continuuity announces the public beta for the company’s developer suite and application sandbox enabling PaaS Big Data. October of last year saw commentary on the SDK and other developer tools released by Continuuity into private beta and now much of that hard work is coming to a head for ...
Canon’s Head Mounted “Mixed Reality” Augmented Reality Device is Nice but a Bit Out of Reach
The era of consumer-level augmented reality devices is slowly coming into port as we watch more manufacturers bring this technology to the public—partially through miniaturization and partially through making them at least affordable. With the Oculus Rift and Google Glass shining bright on the horizon, Canon is bringing their own AR device, or “mixed reality” ...
What Happened to Microsoft Azure on Friday; Death by Security Certificate
An expired SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate just became the lethal bugaboo for Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Storage services when the expiration pulled down the cloud service on Friday afternoon. It took the software mega-giant less than a day to fix the problem and Microsoft announced on Saturday that the service had been entirely restored. “Beginning ...
Chromebook Review Part 4: Entertainment
I love my online media and I am at heart a gamer. So these two things inform how I look at a device when it comes to entertaining myself. As for my experience here, it’s been a mixed bag: the Samsung Chromebook has some fairly good options for movies and music but it’s not the ...
Big Data Security and Intelligence into 2013
The Information Age is quickly becoming the age of information-overload–to combat this, we’ve seen search, curation, and even intelligent agents start to take shape out of the desire to make sense of all the data available. For big business it’s become a whole different problem: the complexity of data that flows through their systems means ...
Chromebook Review Part 3: The Apps
Since every one of these articles has been written on the Chromebook, an astute reader, by now will wonder about what apps I’m using. Since the underlying OS is Google Chrome, that means that every app that is available for use on the Chromebook is either a Chrome app or some derivation thereof designed to ...
Google’s Talks With Payment Processors Would Only Benefit Bitcoin
Last week, rumors that Google has been in talks with major online payment processing outfits such as MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal to starve “illegal” websites appeared in an article in the UK’s Telegraph. While the search giant could certainly be asked to chill the search listings of such sites, payment processors have long been used ...
