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Blockchain.info back in the App Store heralds good news for Apple and Bitcoin
Apple and Bitcoin have had a tumultuous relationship in the past. In late 2013, Apple pulled the Coinbase and Coinjar apps from the App Store and in February 2014, Blockchain.info found its app also yanked. This apparent hostility to Bitcoin-related apps was taken by the community as hostility directed at Bitcoin and the community itself. ...
DevOps Weekly Round-Up: Automation with Chef and Docker breathes life into virtualized containers
This week in DevOps shows an ongoing expansion of opportunities for DevOps teams, IT teams, and developers to leverage open source and vendor-specific API models. Configuration and automation remains the big draw for DevOps needs, but virtual containers (via Docker and others) are becoming more visible. Chef Software, Inc. continues to release expanded abilities permitting ...
Big Data needs drive R as a powerful enterprise ready language
As Big Data continues to reach larger enterprise adoption, the programming languages that support writing schema and producing Big Data analysis algorithms will rush to keep up. As a result, the open source statistical language R has become a go-to skill for Big Data scientists and developers, with its popularity soaring amid languages and skills. ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 July 23: Bitcoin Girl, Winklevoss Bitcoin Index API, NYC Yellow Taxi and Bitcoin, Newegg 10% promotion, and more
Recent weeks have seen some fairly good adoption news for Bitcoin with new businesses climbing on board—most important computer giant Dell—and the market price has stayed relatively stable, residing within the $610 to $630 band. The last major market upheaval being the sale of the US Marshals Service sized Silk Road bitcoins. This week, check ...
Docker ships virtual container DevOps and orchestration with Orchard acquisition
Docker, Inc., the commercial sponsor for the Docker open source project, just announced the acquisition of Orchard Laboratories, Ltd. For an undisclosed amount. Orchard has a long history with Docker as a creator of solutions for Docker that include a hosting service and Fig, an application composition and orchestration tool. About the acquisition, Ben Golub, ...
AppDynamics lands $120 million to ignite Application Intelligence market
Application intelligence leader AppDynamics just finished a massive round of funding securing $120 million in growth financing. This new financing raises the total capital gathered by AppDynamics to over $200 million and will fund the expansion of its Application Intelligence Platform m into the IT Operations and Business Analytics markets. Jyoti Bansal, founder and CEO ...
Naomi Brockwell is the Bitcoin Girl (Video)
There’s a new celebrity in Bitcoin town and it’s Naomi Brockwell, the star of Moving Picture Institute’s new music video “Bitcoin Girl,” which parodies the Billy Joel song “Uptown Girl.” Bitcoin Girl is an interesting composition of Bitcoin culture along with amusing lyrics that use the original tune to tell a similar story. The video ...
Dell becomes the largest ecommerce merchant to accept Bitcoin
In what could be the biggest splash in Bitcoin history to date, computer legend Dell just announced that the company will accept bitcoins. To do this, Dell has integrated with Coinbase and the entire process took 14 days from inception to launch. Coinbase claims on its announcement blog that Dell is the largest ecommerce company ...
3D scanning for Indiana Jones and Doctor House from the Artec Group
With much of the media’s attention on 3D printing the other side of the industry, 3D scanning, sometimes gets overlooked. While 3D printing provides an excellent technology for rapidly prototyping 3D objects from digital objects, the converse allows engineers to take real world objects and digitize them. Industry experts and engineers now have access to ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 July 16: Bitcoin conversion on Google, QuickBooks gets BTC payments, Shopify and Coinbase, North American Bitcoin Conference
Today Google finally joined Bing in showing bitcoin conversion rates in search results. QuickBooks now allows customers to pay businesses in bitcoins with Coinbase integration; Shopify has also launched Coinbase integration for its e-commerce web stores. BitPay is sponsoring a party at the North American Bitcoin Conference, happening this Friday, July 18th preceding the conference ...