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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 ...
Proximity still the gaming killer app for reducing latency to cloud | #reinvent
For the usual first person shooter player there’s a moment when it looks like you’ve got the bad guy in your crosshairs, you pull the trigger, and bam—you die? This is a moment that many gamers find themselves throwing their controller at the screen. The reason why: latency created a situation where you thought you ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 November 12: NCR Silver plans Bitcoin support, XChange adds Coinsetter, Quickbooks and BitPay, and crypto demographics
The big Bitcoin news this week comes from NCR Corporation who just announced plans to integrate Bitcoin payments into point of sale systems internationally. This announcement continues to bolster adoption by opening up more avenues for merchants to connect with consumers with Bitcoin. Developers will be overjoyed to hear the XChange Java Library now supports ...
Kickstarting a new way to develop for the Internet of Things with Thingsee One
A group of ex-Nokia employees, founders of a Finnish startup named Haltian, have launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to bring the Internet of Things to the hands of developers. The campaign promises to deliver a cheap, sleek hardware platform in the form of the Thingsee One. The Internet of Things is an ever-growing ecology that ...
One week with Google Inbox: A technology reporter’s experience
In many ways Google has reinvented, or at least greatly amplified, how people find information on the Internet by creating the de facto search engine and now the company is trying to reinvent e-mail as well. Inbox is that attempt, a web and mobile client not so much designed around helping people clear out their ...
Swarm crypto-crowdfunding platform incubates its first five startups
SwarmCorp, the world’s first distributed incubator that uses an innovative funding-by-cryptocurrency design, just finished its first-ever Decentralized Demo Day and has announced Techstars as yet another first-ever institutional investor using the native Swarm Coin. Swarm represents an innovative way for projects and startups to gather funding with a democratized, decentralized crowdfunding platform. New ventures produce ...