Mike Wheatley
Latest from Mike Wheatley
Love-hate relationship: The iPhone is a curse for telecoms carriers
When NTT Docomo, the biggest mobile operator in Japan, begun offering the iPhone to its subscribers last September, the idea was that it would stop its competitors from eating away at its market share. The plan worked, but now Docomo is struggling with a different problem resulting from this move – the iPhone is hitting ...
Dell accused of charging fees to install freeware Firefox browser
Mozilla is reported to be considering legal action against Dell, after it was revealed that the PC maker was charging customers in the UK a fee amounting to around $27 to install its free Firefox browser on new computers. Sources told The Register of Mozilla’s plans just days after it learned that Dell was demanding ...
Pew Research: By 2025 the internet will be everywhere
Just one day before the World Wide Web celebrates its 25th anniversary, the Pew Research Center has published an in-depth report on how the internet is set to evolve over the next ten years. The report, which is based on surveys of almost 1,500 web and technology experts, reveals a number of promising trends that ...
Google Idea’s Jared Cohen says cryptocurrencies are “inevitable”
In an appearance at SXSW yesterday, Google’s Director of Ideas claimed that cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin aren’t going anywhere soon. “I think it’s very obvious to all of us that cryptocurrencies are inevitable,” said Cohen in conversation with Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. “There’s lots of value to it, [but] there’s a danger to it not being ...
Why personalized news apps will never take off
Last week’s big acquisition saw CNN sell off its Zite newsreader app to Flipboard in a deal reportedly worth some $60 million, as the latter bids to become the world’s number one news personalization app. Flipboard says that it bought the app to provide “easier and better ways to discover content about the things that ...
Hackers claim MtGox still has access to ‘missing’ Bitcoin
When MtGox suddenly shut up show with $400 million worth of ‘missing’ Bitcoins last month, the owners of the exchange stated that hackers were responsible for this loss. Whoever had raided MtGox has successfully exploited the transaction malleability bug to divert these funds from the exchange, or so its owners claimed. But suspicions have lingered ...
Satoshi Nakamoto’s disappearance was good for Bitcoin
And so Satoshi Nakamoto, the man who created Bitcoin, has finally been located. That is, of course, if you believe the investigative feature published in Newsweek yesterday, which claims that “Satoshi Nakamoto” is none other than a reclusive 64-year old Japanese-American guy named Satoshi Nakamoto, living in Temple City, California. For a long time it ...
Federal agencies stake their cybersecurity hopes on Big Data
Government IT leaders says that the growth of Big Data analytics can help agencies to better understand network security, and lead to the development of new tools to combat cybersecurity threats, according to a new report from MeriTalk. Based on conversations with IT leaders from 18 federal government agencies with expertise in Big Data, cybersecurity ...
Getty has just made 35 million images free for everyone to use
Getty Images has a well deserved reputation for being something of a ‘copyright pig’. Previously, representatives of the company have testified in Congress and lobbied for an expansion of copyright protections. Not so long ago it acquired PicScout, a company that provides software that scours the web in search of illegally used images, while it’s ...
Microsoft’s Nokia acquisition was the ‘last straw’ that forced Steve Ballmer out
When Steve Ballmer announced that he was going to quit his role as Microsoft’s CEO last summer, the tech world was pretty shocked – all the more so when he refused to give a reason for his departure, simply stating in a press release that it was time to move on. Few saw Ballmer’s departure ...
