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SavvisDirect Opens Up Frictionless Services for Small and Medium Businesses
The enterprise sector has seen strong attention towards using cloud services to deliver platforms and software but how will the small and medium business sector take advantage of what could give them a huge advantage. SavvisDirect seeks to deliver infrastructure-as-a-service, cloud storage, as well as SAAS-marketplace, e-mail, collaboration, and security for SMB. Later this month, ...
BitPay Announces 10,000 Bitcoin Transactions with Zero Cases of Payment Fraud
BitPay announces that the bitcoin transaction processor has exceeded 10,000 successful transactions with zero cases of payment fraud. For a regular financial institution this might be news, but as you’ll see, with Bitcoin fraud is somewhat difficult. Financial transactions on the Internet have always come with a risk—and a sensation that that risk is higher ...
The Modern Prometheus Returns: Mega Gives the Finger to Content Cartels and the US Government
If you read the news about him, Kim Dotcom sounds larger than life. He has a reputation of a sleazebag with too much money to his name who became the center of a year-long-firestorm involving his website Megaupload. It’s now been over a year since the US violently dismantled his cloud cyberlocker file sharing business ...
New Relic Unleashes “NERD LIFE” MC Frontalot Video
According to New Relic, “2013 is the year of the nerd” and that everything is hackable. For many developers, inventors, hackers, and others the world is a place of constant innovation and moving parts. Nerds, geeks, and others see the world not so much differently than anyone else but possess a cultural vision that includes ...
GitHub Memorial for Aaron Swartz Open to All
As a pioneer in freedom of speech, Internet openness, government transparency, and the availability of human thought, it seems fitting that a memorial built atop the fundamental nature of GitHub. Anyone with an installation capable of running “git” or “rake” can add their own memory. The repository is available via GitHub, Aaron was a tireless ...
BitcoinStore Plans to Take On the World of Online Electronics Retail with BTC
You can visit BitcoinStore’s web page right now but they’re still running deep during their beta stage and haven’t kicked in the hype or the advertising—right now over 500,000 electronics products are available for surprisingly low prices all sold for bitcoins. The site has a planned launch date for the ides of January so expect ...
Hal Abelson Appointed by MIT President to Investigate University’s Role in Prosecution of Aaron Swartz
Over the weekend the Internet lost one of its most amazing guiding lights: Aaron Swartz—an early developer of the ever-popular Reddit, did significant work with XML, and even co-authored the RSS 1.0 specification that blogs use to syndicate their work. He has been nothing short of a powerhouse for free information and freedom of speech. ...
MakerBot Replicator 2X Announced at CES 2013: Now With Twice the 3D Printing
At the last CES 2012, MakerBot brought out the Replicator—an amazing consumer-level 3D printer—and this year at CES 2013 CEO Bre Pettis announced the company has kept up their momentum and revealed the prototype Replicator 2X that sports two printing heads instead of one. An update designed for more advanced consumers interested in much more ...
BitPay Receives $510,000 in Funding Round to Advance Bitcoin Processing
It’s past the end of 2012 and it’s time to look at where Bitcoin is going and the increase in services that provide processing means that there’s a bigger space for people who want to trade BTC to move into. BitPay is an electronic processing service that enables merchants to take Bitcoins and turn them ...
Razer Unveils High End Gaming Tablet That Doubles as a Transformer
During CES 2012, Razer revealed the Fiona—an overpowered, surprisingly odd tablet that would work to slake the bloodthrist of gamers for a mobile device that could play video games with the best of them. Now at CES 2013, Razer has finally unleashed the design and its actually much better than the original expectations. Instead of ...