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The Evolving Place of Pastebin.com in Social Discourse, From LulzSec to Occupy Wall Street
The previous decade showed us how the Internet and social media change the face of protests. In fact, a leaderless collective of interested parties emerged from forums calling themselves Anonymous to form a surprisingly large mass protest against Scientology. We’ve seen social media provide the foundation for citizen journalists to document the going’s on of ...
Bitcoin7 Hacked, Funds Recovery Requires Sensitive Personal Information
On Oct 5, 2011 the Bitcoin7 exchange website posted a message to its users that it had been subject to a hacking intrusion that compromised their wallets and their user database. “While our investigation is still going, evidence reveals that the attacks originated from Russia and Eastern Europe,” wrote the proprietors of Bitcoin7. “The attack ...
Western Digital TV Live Set-Top Box Brightens Your Living Room with Spotify
The living room cloud is dominated primarily by one device that has usurped the much vaunted place of the Victorian fireplace in the middle class home: the television. As a result, a large number of devices have risen in an ecosystem to take advantage of this position in the home and its place of honor ...
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff Restaurant Keynote Speech Reveals the Power of Social Enterprise
Marc Benioff has managed to spit in Oracle’s eye using the very Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software his company develops and its paradigm to do so. John Furrier, founder of SiliconANGLE, sat in and broadcast the entire keynote on SiliconANGLE.tv. After having his Oracle OpenWorld 2011 keynote speech essentially cancelled by Oracle, Benioff swiftly took ...
David Flynn of Fusion-io Discusses Atomic Multiblock Native Write
Fusion-io, already becoming famous for their highly successful Flash storage products, is adding a new technology that will permit a new type of write primitive called an “atomic multiblock native write.” Most importantly the multiblock write will be enabled and native to hardware and this will help resolve a problem with writes that often work ...
Jailbreak Utility for iPhone Redsn0w Ahead of the Game with iOS 5.0 GM for iPhone 4S, iPad, and iPod
It looks like just on the edge of unveiling the new iPhone, hackers across the Internet have already gotten on the ball and prepared a jailbreak for the device that allows tethering. The jailbreak program is named Redsn0w (updated version 0.9.9b2) but it does require that the smartphone be tethered to a computer running the ...
Has a New Yorker Reporter Found Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto?
Bitcoin has its own version of Batman and a New Yorker reporter has gone out hunting for the cryptocurrency’s Bruce Wayne. It’s been three years since the inception and introduction of Bitcoin to the world and while it started out extremely fringe and invisible to the general public, lately the cryptographic currency has managed to ...
Jason Andersen at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 Bringing Java to PaaS with JBoss
John Furrier of SiliconANGLE and Dave Vellante of Wikibon sat down with Jason Andersen, the Product Line Developer, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform & Developer Studio, a division of Red Hat to speak about JBoss, the cloud, and his current strategy for approaching the future of Platform-as-a-Service. Overall, Andersen brought a lot of insight to the ...
Klout vs. Kred, the new Social Media Influence Metric on the Block
A new service is being launched by social media analyst industry leader PeopleBrowsr intended to compete with other influence-metric social media services like Klout—in fact, it looks exactly like a competitor directly to Klout. Just with a different algorithm and metric tracking system. Now, it’s been long argued that influence-guessing services like Klout are more ...
New NFC Standard Brings Simple Peer-to-Peer Communication Within Easy Reach
Lately, Near-Field Communications (NFC) news has been a little bit dry. The technology isn’t any longer in its infancy, but now that it’s starting to crawl it’s getting into everything (perhaps its time we put safety covers on the outlets and bundled up those loose wires.) The NFC Forum have convened and put together a ...