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Valve’s Steam Launches Subscription-Based Titles, Launches Darkfall Unholy Wars
Steam adds a new title that comes with a new payment scheme. Aventurine’s fantasy MMO Darkfall Unholy Wars launched on Steam as the first automatic renewal subscription-based title. Players can purchase the game for $40 and it will automatically charge the gamer $15 per month afterwards. As players can cancel (and manage) their subscription at ...
DevOps Alive and Well at Spotify
Did you ever think that Spotify, the cloud music service, embraces DevOps? Or did you think that DevOps is just about mobile apps is just about app development? The website Infoq has written up a brilliant, introspective examination of the music-service and how its IT department approaches DevOps as part of monthly DevOps War Stories. This one ...
Finally, Smartphone Sales Overtake Feature Phones in 1Q13
In today’s mobile and social news roundup: Smartphone sales overtake feature phones; Facebook acquires Parse and adds some big names to DC project; T-Mobile gets called out for deceptive advertising; and Pinterest brings back friend-finding features. Smartphone sales overtake feature phones
Could the Pivotal Buyout Be a Pivotal Move for GE?
There’s plenty of buzz going on around the GE Pivotal investment. And why wouldn’t there be? When an Industrial giant shells out a huge chunk of money to a new company, that’s newsworthy. Joining this week’s Live NewsDesk Show with Kristin Feledy is Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly to give his Breaking Analysis on ...
Cisco’s New Fabric Switch Brings Storage Up to Lightspeed
Cisco announced new services for storage area networks (SANs) that would deliver higher performance, scalability, and reliability. The two new offerings are the Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director and the Cisco MDS 9250i Multiservice Fabric Switch which are both fairly significant upgrades to its storage networking portfolio. Joining this morning’s Live NewsDesk Show with Kristin ...
GE’s Pivotal Plans Could Make Big Data Available to Big Industry
Yesterday, industrial giant GE announced that it will invest $105 million into EMC & VMware’s lovechild: Pivotal, that is focusing on the new modern era of developers and cloud. But what does this announcement mean for Big Data applications? And why is GE’s investment in Pivotal such a huge deal? Joining this morning’s Live NewsDesk ...
Nintendo’s Sales Free Fall as Smartphones Shoot Into Space – SiliconANGLE News Roundup
In today’s NewsDesk news roundup: Nintendo sales drop further than anticipated; Utah approves iProvo fiber network transfer to Google; Amazon to release TV set-top box; SNL now exclusively featured on Yahoo!; Zynga beats analyst expectations but still at a loss; New Xbox set for May 21 reveal; Verizon to buyout Vodafone for $100B; Google acquires ...
WhatsApp on BlackBerry vs. iPhone, Android and Dedicated Nokia Button
WhatsApp is a cross-platform messaging service that is available for a variety of platforms. When you install this app, the service is free to use for one year, after that, you need to cough up $0.99 per year to continue using the service. If you think about it, it’s a really small price to pay ...
Comex Moving Out of Apple, Packs His Bags for Google
In today’s mobile and social news roundup: Comex moves to Google; WhatsApp launches on BlackBerry Q10; Samsung Knox delayed; HTC clarifies terms of Nokia’s win; and Will Facebook users welcome a new design? Comex moves to Google In 2011, Apple tapped Nicholas Allegra, popularly known as Comex in the jailbreaking community. Comex got Apple’s attention ...
Hacked Twitter Account Shakes-Up the Stock Market, Alerts the FBI
“Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured,” the Associated Press tweeted yesterday. If you were one of the many who read the tweet, I’m pretty sure you were alarmed and concerned, since the news came from a legit news source. But lo and behold, the news was not real, as ...