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Overstock.com jumps on the Bitcoin bandwagon, starts accepting payments
Overstock.com surprised a few people late on Thursday when it moved forward with its plans to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment. The online retailer previously said in December it would adopt the cryptocurrency “within the next six months”, but has now begun accepting it already, completing 150 orders within the first hour. In ...
NSA spying prompts shift away from US cloud companies
As predicted earlier here on SiliconANGLE and also by our sister site Wikibon, last year’s revelations of the NSA’s spying shenanigans are having a harmful impact on the US cloud computing industry, according to new research by Canadian cloud hosting company Peer1. The company recently carried out a survey of some 300 UK and Canadian ...
Yahoo’s ad malware almost certainly DID NOT create a Bitcoin mining botnet
A misleading story has emerged about last week’s Yahoo malware infestation, which saw the company’s home page become a cyber Typhoid Mary, exposing thousands of European PCs to digital disease. The malware-infected ads were served up by Yahoo after it fell victim to a major security breach, and now one security firm claims that these ...
Wolfram bids to make the Internet of Things actually work
If the Internet of Things is ever going to realize its true potential, then all of our connected gizmos, gadgets and sensors are going to need to speak the same language at some point. Wolfram, which runs the Wolfram Alpha computational search engine and is already familiar with Big Data sets, is a logical choice ...
Sony’s PlayStation Now signals hardcore gaming intent
Sony took to the stage at CES yesterday to announce its brand new cloud-based gaming service, called PlayStation Now, which aims to bring a range of classic PlayStation titles to all kinds of different gadgets, including smartphones and tablets. PlayStation Now will be available to US gamers in limited beta later this month, before rolling ...
Intel & AMD want to force Android & Windows into bed together
Cohabitation has never been easy, as anyone who’s tried it will tell you. And it gets even harder when you’re talking about tech, and particularly operating systems, which are generally about as incompatible as its possible to be Or at least, that’s how things used to be. But that could be about to change with ...
John McAfee’s just too mental for Intel
Security firm McAfee might be something of a household name these days, but that has more to do with the over-the-top antics of the company’s founder rather than what it’s achieved in the security space. That’s in spite of the fact that John McAfee hasn’t worked for the company in almost two decades. But apparently, ...
Bitcoin begins new year with a bang, value soars close to $1,000
Bitcoin has staged a dramatic comeback over the last 24 hours, with its price edging towards the $1,000 mark for the first time since mid-December, propelled by the news that several major businesses have begun accepting the cryptocurrency as a means of payment. The most important of these was online games company Zynga, which said ...
Yahoo ads dumped malware on visitor’s PCs
Following all the bad publicity over its Yahoo Mail service last year, with user’s accounts being constantly hijacked and a disastrous, weeks-long outage in December, Yahoo was probably hoping for some better press going into 2014. Sadly though, the opposite has happened, with reports over the weekend warning that the company’s home page has been ...
3 Big Data problems facing businesses in 2014
Few trends in technology were hotter than Big Data over the last 12 months. In fact, so much has been said about it during 2013 that it’s hard to see what else we can say in 2014. But of course, there’s sure to be plenty of developments we don’t know about yet, as trends like ...
