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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 ...
Circle brings the joy of Bitcoin wallets to Android and iOS
First, Circle was a nebulous-but-innovative idea for the Bitcoin community. An invite-only suggestion of interesting things to come. A product of Circle Internet Financial Ltd., when Circle finally came out, it provided a sleek, ready, and easy-to-use interface for buying, spending, and sending bitcoins. The only thing missing from the experience happened to be mobile. ...
What a long strange journey it’s been: 10 years of World of Warcraft user experience
World of Warcraft has released its most recent expansion Warlords of Draenor, making yet another milestone of this game’s ten year tenure on the market. In that time, Blizzard Entertainment (a subsidiary of now Activision Blizzard, Inc.) became a focal cultural phenomenon for the entire industry of online games. The expansion represents a new era for ...
Oculus VR announces Mobile SDK and the Gear VR headset at $199
Oculus VR has just gone live with the mobile SDK aimed at bringing developers to the Samsung Gear VR–a mobile device that is essentially someone strapping a Galaxy Note 4 to their face. The mobile SDK represents a year of collaboration with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to bring 3D technology to mobile. Interested innovators can ...