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Kim Jong-il Malware Discovered Roaming the Wild
From the that-didn’t-take-long department, the recent death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il has taken its predicted path through social media and spawned malicious spam that takes advantage of exploits in PDF to infect computers with a Trojan. Researchers at TrendLabs discovered the spammed messages in their inboxes with subjects mentioning the death of Kim ...
Education by Osmosis, through fMRI Could You Know Kung-Fu?
As with the testimonial line from The Matrix, “I know Kung-Fu.” We have a notion from modern popular science fiction that some day humanity might be able to overcome the cumbersome notion of learning from books and experience and directly implant education into the brain via some as-to-be-known sort of technological osmosis. According to an ...
Angry Birds Maker Rovio Seeks Hong Kong 2013 IPO; Zynga Stock Continues to Drop
It’s been a year of social IPOs and it looks like 2013 will continue that trend with Rovio, the developer of the altogether famous Angry Birds. During an interview held with Reuters last week Peter Vesterbacka, marketing chief of Finnish company Rovio, explained that the company might seek their initial public offering in Asia, citing ...
Global Gaming Fueled by Cloud Distribution Grows 450% in 3 Years
The cloud-based global game-delivery company Pando Networks recently distributed a press-release containing a telling infographic about the growth of global gaming as seen through the eyes of their network. Some countries have seen faster growth into using their network to acquire games than others—for example over the past three years European downloads have risen by ...
Nielson Report Shows that Console Usage is Up 7% Over 2010, Streaming Video a Big Factor
A recently released Nielsen report shows that the viewership of streaming video on game consoles is on the rise. Not an unexpected outcome with how much Microsoft and Sony have been pushing themselves into the online streaming video market; but it’s still a bit early to tell who’s succeeding. “Streaming now represents a reported 14 ...
Dwolla Serves Up Instant Payment
The company Dwolla is best known for providing a payment network similar to credit cards and PayPal but without charging exorbitant fees for the exchange of money between customers. Today, the pioneering company is taking a bite out of the legacy architecture of money transfer they’ve been chafing against by releasing a service that provides ...
Free-to-Play MMO Publisher Nexon Nets $1.17 Billion From IPO
Today, the Korean free-to-play online gaming company Nexon has gone public in the Tokyo Stock Exchange and raised $1.17 billion from its IPO. According to GamesIndustry, this is the biggest IPO to hit the exchange this year, putting the market value of the MMO publisher between $7.69 billion and $8.97 billion. “We want to have ...
FBI Arrests GeneSimmons.com DDoS Attacker, Connected to Anonymous
The distributed denial of service attack is the favorite crushing blow of the Anonymous hactivist collective, but as it causes disruption and misery to Internet users in the fashion on malicious vandalism, it is considered a crime in most countries. FBI agents arrested a Connecticut man on Tuesday morning, charged with conducting the October 2010 ...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Beats $1 Billion Sales Milestone in 16 Days
The month of November has been punishing and glorious for the gaming industry this year, game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has climbed a milestone and cast down yet another gaming record: exceeding $1 billion dollars since it’s launch debut on November 8, 2011. That $1 billion mark ...
Dwolla Will Unveil Paradigm Shift in Business on December 15th
The now-famous, social media fueled finance network Dwolla is set to entirely change the way that they do business on Dec 15, 2011. This upcoming celebration and unveiling will be hosted in Des Moines, IA at a location named Vaudeville Mews. If you intend to join them, be sure to register your attendance so that ...