Mike Wheatley
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In a few years time, you won’t be able to walk from the bedroom to the living room without falling over half a dozen devices that are connected to the web. For some, that might already be the case – if not, …
Twitter IPO: 3 things investors might not know
Twitter has finally announced how much it plans to sell its shares for, with stock going on sale at $26 a pop on the New York Stock Exchange from the start of today’s trading. In what’s billed as the biggest tech IPO …
Canada’s government said ‘no way’ to Lenovo’s BlackBerry takeover
BlackBerry’s troubled businesses might be on life support these days, but that hasn’t stopped a flurry of reports covering its ongoing troubles this week. First up was the news that Fairfax Financial Holdings, the company set to takeover BlackBerry for $4.7 billion, …
Report claims Bitcoin is broken, at risk from ‘selfish miners’
Bitcoin isn’t nearly as safe as most users believe, being vulnerable to an attack that could allow a small group of “selfish Bitcoin miners” to effectively wrest control of the virtual currency – all it would take is a group of determined …
Cisco drives OpenStack on UCS at OpenStack Summit Hong Kong
Cisco unveiled a new batch of accelerator packs at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong earlier today, designed to help organizations deploy their OpenStack cloud infrastructures on Cisco’s UCS more easily, giving them all of the benefits of Cisco server and networking …
Google finally boosts Chrome security with password manager protection
Those who use Google Chrome as their preferred web browser are probably familiar with its basic password manager, which allows users to store authentication data and log into various websites hassle-free. It’s all very convenient of course, allowing you to access your …
The patent war rumbles on, just don’t go thinking Google is innocent
Steve Jobs may not have lived to make good on his promise of a “thermonuclear” war against Google, but the company he left behind is determined to keep up the fight. In one of the biggest stories from the weekend, Rockstar Consortium, …
Anonymous hacks The Straits Times, threatens war against Singapore government
Singapore’s leading newspaper, The Straits Times, became the latest victim of hacktivist group Anonymous this morning, after the collective hacked its website to announce the start of an all-out war against the country’s government. A member of Anonymous posted the following message …
Salesforce’s still chasing Oracle, but it needs Oracle’s help to do it
With Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce conference set to kick off later this month, the spotlight once again falls on its ongoing love/hate relationship with Oracle, and what each company is doing to wrongfoot the other. Dreamforce will take place from November 18-21, with …
Facebook wants to track your mouse cursor and screen behavior
As if it didn’t know enough about you already, Facebook now wants to be able to track your mouse cursor as you interact with the site, and has apparently been researching the feasibility and profitability of doing so. According to the Wall …