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Bitcoin Weekly 2014 December 3: Bitcoin Foundation copycat fraud sites, MasterCard speaks against BTC in Australia, ChangeTip $3.5m seed funding
This week in Bitcoin shows a growth happening in the community as well as the pains associated with it. On the grim front there’s some friction happening with that growth. Fraud continues to be an issue, as it is with any industry, with The Bitcoin Foundation warning about copycat websites attempting to defraud users out ...
Augmented reality changes the face of marketing with Aurasma | #HPDiscover
Mobile devices have put a great deal of power into the hands of consumers by simply giving them instant access to the Internet, but the next big user experience revolution focuses on cameras. Smartphones provide a window into the information world, but accessing it can be a little cumbersome—speaking aloud, typing, taking a picture of ...
Meet the NetNinja: The only anonymizing VPN box you’ll need
We live in a world where going on the Internet also means bringing the whole wild, wild west into your living room. Every week the media publishes another story about a data breach, privacy invasions, or an Internet service provider spying on your downloads and streaming video. While this is not a fear (or even ...
Report: 2015 will be the year of cloud gaming
The proliferation of devices capable of streaming video games from the cloud and services that take advantage of cloud-streaming, Strategy Analytics, a Boston-based market researcher, believes that 2015 will become the year of cloud gaming. Specifically the audience for PlayStation Now from Sony and the Grid Game Streaming Service from Nvidia have the potential to grow ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 November 26: Bitcoin Black Friday and the tipping revolution are upon us
It’s Thanksgiving week and most minds are turning to turkey and insane deals at the local retail store. In the Bitcoin world the turkey stays at home, but the deals will be represented by Bitcoin Black Friday—soon to be three years running, this Black Friday event tends to bring quite a following, read below on ...
DerpTrolling’s latest PlayStation Network, Windows Live hack claims don’t pass muster
Internet mayhem crew DerpTrolling claims to have stolen username and password data from several different gaming outfits including the PlayStation Network, Windows Live, and 2K Games Studios. The group has posted its claimed ill-gotten booty on Pastebin and the dump holds about 2,131 account logins for PSN. Earlier this month DerpTrolling also claimed responsibility for ...
Bitcoin tipping sees giant growth: ChangeTip exceeds 10,000 tips in one day
Yesterday, Bitcoin tipping service ChangeTip announced that it had exceed 10,000 user generated bitcoin tips in one day, marking a milestone in the phenomenon of microtransacted bitcoin tipping across the Internet. As a currency that can be broken down into extremely tiny fractions and still traded, Bitcoin has always had an ephemeral edge when it ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 November 19: Bitcoin Black Friday approaches, BloomNation talks BTC, Circle mobile apps, DPR coins auction
It’s already November and therefore a good time to prepare for Black Friday and the upcoming Bitcoin Black Friday. November 28th will be a date to save with all the deals that will be released to the Bitcoin community. Be sure to sign up for e-mail updates so you don’t miss it! Also in this ...
Bitcoin Black Friday 2014 plans to be bigger than ever with 6,000 merchant deals
For U.S. merchants, Black Friday is a huge extravaganza of deals offered and prices dropped in an attempt to entice as many shoppers as possible through their doors. In light of this sort of retail holiday, Jon Holmquist founded Bitcoin Black Friday. This year will mark the third iteration of this event and plans are already ...
Black Lotus Report: DDoS volume decreasing but attackers becoming more sophisticated
A new report from Black Lotus, a leader in availability security and provider of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection, shows that attackers are using less bandwidth to cause trouble but are getting smarter about how their attacks work. Distributed Denial of Service attacks have become as common as bad weather for running an Internet-based ...