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Yesterday, the O’Reilly Fluent Startup Showcase had 11 different startups demonstrate their products in front of 4 judges– Chris Wilson (Google), Simon St. Laurent (O’Reilly Media), Peter Cooper (Cooper Press), and Brady Forrest (PCH)—the judges chose two startups and the community voted …
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 May 29: OKPay Turns Back on Bitcoin, BitAngels Announces $6.7 Million in Funding, Coinbase Paper Wallets
Mt. Gox hasn’t been having the best month with payment sources with the freeze of its Dwolla account and now OKPay apparently withdrawing entirely from bitcoin processing and funding of exchanges. In what seemed like a surprise to everyone, the payment processor …
OKPay To Suspend Money Services for Bitcoin Exchanges, Says Mt. Gox
Mt. Gox is informing customers that OKPay, a long-time money-transfer partner with the Bitcoin exchange, will be suspending operations with Bitcoin-related exchanges. The Tokoyo-based exchange has published this news in a PDF online as a press release that makes it clear this …
Xbox One Could Be Microsoft’s Fertile Ground for Massively-Multiplayer Games
The Xbox isn’t the place to go to for MMOs, free-to-play or otherwise. As a whole, consoles have not been that big of a breeding ground for massively-multiplayer online games and part of that may be due to the general video-game making …
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 May 22: Butterfly Labs ASIC Miners Ship, Canadian Regulators Lighten Fears, and the EFF Accept BTC as Donations Again
It’s been a sunny week for Bitcoin with some interesting turbulence, some shifting fronts, the odd cloud, and a lot of bright spots. First on the plate is that Butterfly Labs is shipping their promised ASIC miners after over a 10 month …
Under the Hood of Xbox One with Microsoft’s Marc Whitten #XboxReveal
As part of the presentation today for #XboxReveal in which Microsoft unveiled the next-generation Xbox One console, Marc Whitten took the stage to talk about what makes the gaming console tick. He started by describing how software, hardware, and sensors all work …
Behold the Xbox One: Intelligent TV, Personalized, Powerful, Cloud-Centric
Don Mattrick took the stage before a cheering and excited audience in an auditorium on Microsoft campus. In order to launch, a commercial was run that spoke to the intentions of Xbox as it moves into the future using the cloud, personalization, …
Microsoft’s Big Announcement Today Will Cover Next Gen Xbox, How to Tune In
The Big Announcement about the next-generation Xbox happens today and if you’re a gamer, it’s something you don’t want to miss out on. Not only will fairly-much every major gaming website be live streaming and blogging the press conference, you can also …
Canadian Money Regulation May Prove a Warmer Climate for Bitcoin than the US
A leaked letter from the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) has come to the attention of The Register that shows that citizens of the United States’s northern neighbor may enjoy less regulations on bitcoin trading. In the wake …
Google I/O 2013: OAuth API Design and Security for Authentication in Application Development
Developers who work with accessing APIs are probably already largely familiar with the paradigm that OAuth works under: it’s an identity and authentication API. In his session, Adam Eijdenberg describes how to connect your applications with Google’s services using OAuth from how …