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Mike Wheatley

Mike Wheatley is a senior staff writer at SiliconANGLE. He loves to write about Big Data and the Internet of Things, and explore how these technologies are evolving and helping businesses to become more agile.

Before joining SiliconANGLE, Mike was an editor at Argophilia Travel News, an occassional contributer to The Epoch Times, and has also dabbled in SEO and social media marketing. He usually bases himself in Bangkok, Thailand, though he can often be found roaming through the jungles or chilling on a beach.

Got a news story or tip? Email Mike@SiliconANGLE.com.

Latest from Mike Wheatley

PC Shipments Slump Again As Lenovo Skips Past HP

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Things are going from bad to worse for OEMs in the PC industry, which has reportedly entered the longest slump in its history with a 10.9% decline in shipments over the last quarter. Altogether, the research firm Gartner reports that global PC …

Is Iran Really Planning To Shut Off Access To The Web?

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Iran’s plans to create a domestic email service and assign each citizen a government email address have led to renewed speculation that the Islamic Republic wants to shut down the World Wide Web and replace it with its own domestic intranet. Recently, …

Big Data’s Still On Track To Save The World

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Big Data’s reputation has taken a bit of a battering lately thanks to allegations that the NSA is collecting and storing people’s web and phone records, leading to a wider debate about the appropriateness of such extensive data-gathering operations. But this negative …

Factual Pushes Targeted Mobile Ads with Location-Based Big Data

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

Big Data company Factual has just rolled out two new products that should helps its clients to extract even greater insights from the location-based data it specialized in. The five-year old Los Angeles-based company has just announced Geopulse Audience and Geopulse Proximity, …

What Chance a Nikon Smartphone?

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

More than a few consumers these days are content to give up on the idea of buying a camera, instead settling for whatever happens to be built into their smartphones, especially now that the quality of these optics has improved immeasurably in …

Don’t Stuff your Big Data in a Woman’s Handbag

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

All kinds of businesses are looking to get into the Big Data game, but a worryingly high number of them are doing so without fully understanding what they’re getting themselves into. It’s one thing to collect and store masses and masses of …

Your Metadata: Here’s What It Can Reveal About You

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

One of the most oft-heard claims to come out of officials mouths since this whole NSA-PRISM thing first became public knowledge is that the spooks are ‘only’ collecting metadata, rather than reading the content of your emails. But does that lack of …

AT&T Wants To Sell Everything It Knows About You

NEWS By MIKE WHEATLEY13 YEARS AGO

In a glorious example of spectacular bad timing (or should we say, arrogance), AT&T has just gone and updated its privacy policy, noting that it plans to start selling its customer’s data to marketers and (we presume) anyone else who’s prepared to …

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