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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 ...
Another One Bites the Dust, Microsoft Burns Down Kelihos Botnet
It’s been only a week since Microsoft put the final stamp on their case against the Rustock botnet, and they’ve already pounced again—this time on equally notorious prey: the Kelihos network. In a particularly amusing twist of fate, Kelihos is also called “Waledac 2.0” due to how much code it allegedly shares with the first ...
Bitcoin 0.4.0 Will Secure Your Wallet With Native Encrpytion
This major release to the Bitcoin client hit the digital stacks September 23, 2011 and it includes a long-awaited security feature: encrypted wallets. Of late, users of the cryptocurrency have suffered increased attempts by outside parties to get at the wallets of Bitcoin owners (since during the boom there were quite a few Bitcoin millionaires ...
FBI Arrests of Suspected LulzSec, Anonymous Hackers Sweep the U.S.
News and speculation have been all a twitter this morning with the revelation that the FBI has arrested two alleged members of the group LulzSec and the hacktivist collective Anonymous on Thursday morning in Tempe, Arizona and San Francisco, California. Court documents and charges have been filed against other hackers and search warrants are being ...
Is that Bear a Kinect Controller or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Anyone who hasn’t experienced it yet should go to Google Maps, find a local mall with a Build-a-Bear Workshop and go make a bear. Sure, the stuffed little adorables can be a little bit on the expensive side, but it’s an experience worth having and the end product isn’t just a t-shirt. Well, the bear-stuffing ...
Xbox Leads the Personal Cloud to the Living Room with Comcast Cable
Even two years ago, Microsoft may have realized that videogame consoles are a brilliant stalking horse for bringing influence into the living room. With the set-top-box wars heating up, and the fact that videogame consoles often outnumber even VCRs and DVRs in any given home, it’s the perfect place for a corporation to position themselves ...
Bitcoinica Growing Pains Result in Data Errors
Last week, I reported on an emerging trading platform for Bitcoin, Bitcoinica, that presented itself as a Forex service and did so without trading any bitcoins with customers. The Bitcoin service runs in the cloud and has a lot of interesting elements going for it—it even had an excellent week last week trading over ฿160,865.33 ...