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Niall Dalton Talks Cantor Fitzgerald’s Interest in Project Moonshot and Low-Power ARM Processors
Dave Vellante and John Furrier have set up theCUBE in Palo Alto for Hewelett-Packard’s Project Moonshot Press Event. As a guest in the Cube, Niall Dalton, the Director of High Frequency Trade at Cantor Fitzgerald, came in to speak about his company’s outlook on HP’s new Project Moonshot ARM low-power processors and the Calxeda module. Dalton ...
Facebook Scam “Girl Who Killed Herself on Halloween” Video Spreads
A scam campaign has hit Facebook with a familiar click-jacking underlying theme: the death of a person. Although, the entitled posts don’t solicit a particular celebrity they do entice users of the social media site to click a link reading “Girl-Killed-Herself-on-Halloween-After-Dad-Posted-This-on-Her-Wall.” The posts are getting a lot of traction currently and should be avoided as ...
The Schmooze Strikes Back: Our Firewall Might be Up, but the Front Door is Unlocked
It’s the oldest trick in the book in the security industry: talking your way through corporate security measures. Popular media like movies and television shows portray hacking as a celebrated enterprise of geeks behind glowing computer screens who never make any sort of human contact except for in rare instances; but in the world of ...
Windows Phone 7.5 Xbox Companion Weaves Personal and Living Room Cloud Together
Video game consoles and smartphones may seem like an unlikely pair intuitively, but take a step back and they’re both part of the same personal ecosystem: they’re information and entertainment devices that rule overlapping parts of our lives. Microsoft has recognized this and is working on further integrating the two with their most recent updates ...
Can Casascius (Physical) Bitcoins Actually Spurn Legality?
The easy answer is probably still: “No.” Recently, an innovative Bitcoin enthusiast named Mike Caldwell from Utah decided that his beloved bitcoins were too virtual and decided to make a product that could represent them. Casascius Bitcoins are a physical brass slug, struck with a Bitcoin symbol and a few words, and affixed with a ...
November Fifth Looms Large With Anonymous Plot vs. Fox News, Banks
“Remember, remember the fifth of November, the gunpowder, treason and plot.” Perhaps we should update that old Guy Fawke’s nursery rhyme greatly popularized by Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta to mention the “Anonymous cyberattack and plot.” The hactivist collective developed a meme penchant for wearing Guy Fawke’s masks from the comic book and film to ...
Royal Society Journal Archive Lifts 60,000 Historical Scientific Articles into the Cloud
The scientific legacy of the world-famous historical journal archive will be available to the public—fully searchable and online—announced The Royal Society, the world’s oldest scientific publisher. The archive’s online-access portion will even include the first-ever peer-reviewed scientific journal: the first edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society first appearing in 1665. The digitization of ...
Zynga Girds for Sudden Death with IPO Coming One Week Before Thanksgiving
Everyone’s favorite social media gaming giant, Zynga Inc., will be positioning themselves to become a publicly traded company a week before the Thanksgiving holiday on November 24th, 2011. Breaking news according to a Reuters article, citing two sources who claim caution that the plans might change with new developments. As recently as late September, Zynga’s IPO has ...
Hackers Absconded with Mitsubishi Heavy Warplane, Nuke Plant Data
A leading daily newspaper in Japan is running an article right now that it’s been discovered that hackers stole plans for nuclear power plant design and safety plans, as well as fighter jet plans, from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. Computers. Sources told The Ashai Shimbun that during the period of time that the Japanese defense ...
Bitcoin is Not Dead (Again) Part II
For those who have been reading my coverage of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, you might have noticed that there isn’t actually a “Bitcoin is Not Dead Part I.” This is because in spite of people repeatedly calling out the currency as having failed in the past, nobody has ever successfully argued why it had died (and ...