Microsoft Gets Gangsta: Xbox One Muscles In On Used Games Market

Mike Wheatley | May 22nd

The Xbox One looks fantastic, but one thing that gamers have been worried about is their ability to play pre-owned games on the console. The good news is that Microsoft has confirmed that this will...»

How To Use Google Search with Conversations

Mellisa Tolentino | May 22nd

Google has quietly introduced “conversational search” to Google Search users using the Chrome browser.  The feature was introduced during last week’s Google I/O, and though some claim it’s not really new since the feature already exists on

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Java SE Gets New Version Numbering Scheme

Isha Suri | May 22nd

Oracle recently announced the new version numbering scheme for Java Standard Edition (SE). The new release numbering scheme has been devised for upcoming Java SE releases.

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Round-Up: Games You Can Play at Launch on Xbox One

Isha Suri | May 22nd

Recently, Microsoft unveiled its much-awaited gaming console--the Xbox One. Ready to go head-to-head with Sony’s PlayStation 4, Xbox One is Microsoft’s all-in-one living-room device. The device is slated to release later this year, and comes with...»

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 May 22: Butterfly Labs ASIC Miners Ship, Canadian Regulators Lighten Fears, and the EFF Accept BTC as Donations Again

Kyt Dotson | May 22nd

It’s been a sunny week for Bitcoin with some interesting turbulence, some shifting fronts, the odd cloud, and a lot of bright spots. First on the plate is that Butterfly Labs is shipping their promised ASIC miners after...»

Making Fun of Scalability : New Comic Strip Pays Homage to IT

Mellisa Tolentino | May 22nd

Whoever said geeks have no sense of humor clearly hasn’t stumbled on the comic Not Invented Here.  The site is all about the trials and tribulations of ITs, coders, developers but has been injected with humor.

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Amazon’s New Campus Sports A Greenhouse Effect

Mellisa Tolentino | May 22nd

Look around and you'll see structures sprouting up from the ground up wherever you go. All cities have their fair share of ugly concrete monstrosities - tall, lots of windows and generally just very

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Orchestrate.io Rethinks Database Architecture, Scales the API Instead

Maria Deutscher | May 22nd

Big Data is getting bigger, and IT departments are having a hard time keeping up with it. Many organizations are leveraging a variety of different databases to store their information, usually Oracle for their traditional...»

TweetChat: Flash Meets Software Defined Storage (#SDS): Harmony or Conflict? #flashahead

Ryan Cox | May 22nd

Today we're teaming up with The Wikibon Project's own Stu Miniman (@stu), David Floyer (@dfloyer) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante) will be hosting a #tweetchat on the intersection between Flash...»

David Floyer on Dell’s Decision to Lay Low in the Cloud Services Market

Maria Deutscher | May 22nd

Dell made an interesting move this week. The vendor launched a partner program that will allow customers to buy cloud services through its ecosystem, an important change of strategy that Wikibon co-founder and CTO...»