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Mobile phones have become ubiquitous for the on-the-go-user as well as the on-the-go gamer, and as a result developers have been aiming for iOS and Android to give them an “in” to the market of all these people with computers in their …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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, …
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 …