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Icenium Visual Studio Integration Puts Developers Back On Top of Mobile
One might say that a developer is only as good as her tools–but that story has always gone deeper than that, a tale of skill and romance, a love-hate relationship with the most popular tools and the configurations that make a dev feel at home. Recently mobile developers received a huge treat from Telerik’s Icenium ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 September 25: Lucky Gambler Makes 11k BTC, Coinsetter to Launch Soon, Coinkite Brings POS Solution
The biggest gambling win of bitcoins has happened over the weekend with a mysterious “deep pockets” gambler named Nakowa winning over 11k BTC from the gambling site Just-Dice.com. This huge win has triggered a wave of speculation about how it was done–from luck to cheating the system–as well as some discussions with Nakowa him/herself on ...
Blizzard Makes Plans to Remove All Auction Houses from Diablo III
After pioneering an attempt to introduce Real Money Transactions (RMT) into an online game, Blizzard is removing all auction houses from Diablo III in preparation to changing the way the game’s item system works. Citing that the auction house (AH) and its RMT version undermine the core gameplay of Diablo, Blizzard states that they will ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 September 18: Bigpoint Games to Accept Bitcoin, Network Exceeds 1 Petahash a Second, Armory Technologies Raises $600k
Bitcoin news only got brighter today with a breaking development from Bigpoint–a well-known massively-multiplayer online (MMO) gaming developer who cater to an audience of millions–announcing the acceptance of bitcoins for virtual items. Virtual worlds, gaming, and spaces that exist primarily online and already trade in virtual currencies and virtual goods are a perfect market for ...
Breaking Analysis: The Implications of Twitter Going Public
With Twitter finally going public after almost seven years of being in the public eye—the social media 140 character juggernaut was founded in 2006 but found its stride in 2007—has seen the popularity of tweeting erupt in status but has had a long time in attempting to figure out how to monetize its platform. By ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 September 11: Avalon Refunds ASIC Customers, Bitcoin Could Replace Wall Street Says Investor, California Amends MTA
As the legitimacy of Bitcoin continues to spark debates—including the odd regulatory foray and questions as to Bitcoin as money—there have been other movements in the community catching our attention lately. Firstly, Avalon has set out to refund all customers of ASIC Miners who have been waiting on existing orders due to unexpected delays. Next, ...
Release Automation 4.7 from CA Technologies Release Gives a Glimpse Into DevOps Nirvana
Customers who have large development projects are looking at software development, deployment, and management in novel ways compared to legacy projects. More customers are investing in Agile, automated testing, and ways to write code faster. On the operations side things are floating up into the cloud or distributing into virtualization. The problem: Investing in Agile ...
Interactive Music Video Facehawk by Aptly Named Band ‘Big Data’ Can See What You Do
In an era where people are slowly realizing that their digital footprint is more akin to a bigfoot than a sandal have been warily eyeing the activity of the NSA as well as the activity of corporations like Google and Facebook. Hooking into this new-found self-consciousness, the Facehawk experience takes data from a users Facebook ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 September 4: Bitcoin Markets in India and Kenya, Regulation Woes Cause Disturbance in the United States
As the cryptocurrency slowly gains traction across technological avenues and into the general population questions crop up about how Bitcoin can be used in marketplaces where traditional currency has been struggling. Locales such as Africa have poor central banking and little support for easy transactions, but with the prevalence of mobile networks and Internet penetration ...
Axway Updates Development Agility With the Release of API Server 7.2
Today, Axway is announcing the release of API Server 7.2 designed to unify API management and update the lifecycle, management, delivery, and security of API use by development and operations teams—an important segment of modern day DevOps and services in general. Dubbed a next-generation API Server, 7.2 is focused on standardizing business-to-business (as well as ...