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Amazon races into desktop virtualization with general availability of WorkSpaces
Amazon WorkSpaces, announced in November 2013 and only accessible to a small group of selected users, is now available to the public. The AWS customers can purchase a subscription at a price between 35 and 75 dollars a month to create and manage a virtual desktop to the cloud. The Seattle company has also released ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 March 26: IRS to tax bitcoins as property, Kraken exchange implements reserves audit, MtGox found 200k missing coins
“Bitcoins will be taxed as property, not currency,” the IRS has made official in a policy statement when it comes to bitcoins and Federal taxes. No doubt this change will generate a very interesting media storm. Bitcoin exchange Kraken has submitted to a cryptographic audit for proof-of-reserves and passed, as well as become the recipient ...
City of Paradigm: The Big Data DevOps of customers and user experience
Below is an excerpt from Kyt Dotson’s novel City of Paradigm, a science fiction tale about a fictional 21st century city situated somewhere in California. Each City of Paradigm column is two parts: an excerpt from the novel and an editorial describing the real-world context of the technologies described in the story. Readers may find ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 March 19: Dorian Nakamoto denies connection to Bitcoin, MtGox gets a login, Blockchain.info goes offline
Newly outed Dorian Nakamoto has outright denied any involvement with Bitcoin after a Newsweek published an article claiming that he is Bitcoin’s Batman Satoshi Nakamoto. MtGox gets an interesting form on its front page allowing users to log in and view their currency balances on the now defunct exchange. Blockchain.info had some issues staying online ...
Sandbox-styled, virtual world MMO MyDream announces Kickstarter campaign
A new Kickstarter has just appeared on the horizon for an interesting new sandbox, multiplayer game called MyDream following in the path of similar MMOs seeking to tap the creative interests of gamers. With the world so entranced with sandbox-styled multiplayer games such as Minecraft, it stands to reason that people are primed for seeking ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 March 12: Newsweek ‘finds’ Satoshi Nakamoto, MtGox bankruptcy continues, Big Fish Games gets BTC, 3dcart leads more adoption
The dominant news this week revolves around Satoshi Nakamoto being “found” yet again and the fallout surrounding his “discovery.” Of course, unlike every other time someone had been thought to be the founder of Bitcoin, Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto also has the same name. MtGox continues to face a lot of heat in the community and ...
Finding yourself in Star Trek Online, an interview with a player from Cryptic’s Trek MMO
Some people just want to fly starships. That’s the impetus behind playing Star Trek Online and the driving interest behind video game players like Cynicman, interviewed below in game. Massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) have become a new social strata for gamers to gather, experience a persistent virtual world, participate in challenges, and express themselves. ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 March 5th: MtGox continues to crumble, Flexcoin and Poloniex hacked, ZeroBlock gets RTBTC
In the wake of MtGox becoming an empty, smoking crater, bitcoin value plummeted from the $800 band all the way down to below $500—but it seems now that the news has sunk in, and MtGox is essentially dead, the value is recovering once again and is flirting with the high $600s. In spite of all ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 February 26: MtGox is dead, but it’s not all about MtGox
The real headliner this week is “What happened to MtGox?” And not to disappoint readers of the Bitcoin Weekly there is a summary of this week’s news as it pertains to the situation happening with MtGox. For those readers looking for a summary of news and events not-MtGox-related look to the very bottom for a ...
Treasure Data improves gaming experience with digital gaming analytics solution
Big Data and cloud computing are closely related. Treasure Data, the first end-to-end managed service in the cloud for data acquisition, storage and analysis, is hoping to integrate them seamlessly with its data analytics platform, which runs in the cloud. Taking the big data analytics platform to next level, the company today released its first ...