Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Introducing the completely pointless Windows 8.1 Update 1

By Mike Wheatley Feb 10, 2014

Microsoft is all set to release its first update to Windows 8.1 this April, and a number of leaks have appeared in recent days that show numerous small tweaks to the much-derided operating system…

‘Bad news’ is ‘good news’ for Bitcoin

By Mike Wheatley Feb 10, 2014

Bitcoin has been hit by a spate of negative publicity in the last week or so, but while doomsayers will be rubbing their hands with glee yelling out “I told you so”, those who…

IBM’s Mission Impossible: These chips will self-destruct in five seconds

By Mike Wheatley Feb 7, 2014

The US military’s mad scientists over at DARPA have come up with yet another seemingly impossible mission – it wants IBM to build computer microchips that can ‘self-destruct’ after being used. Motivating this latest…

Nadella says focus is on mobile and cloud

By Mike Wheatley Feb 6, 2014

Now that Satya Nadella is getting comfortable behind his new desk at Microsoft, the world is eager to see what the new CEO plans to do with the company, and most especially in the…

Apple declares war on Bitcoin, but it’s a war that it’s destined to lose

By Mike Wheatley Feb 6, 2014

Apple is now officially an enemy of Bitcoin. The world’s most valuable company has just launched another salvo in its war against the cryptocurrency, banning the popular Bitcoin wallet Blockchain from its app store…

Lenovo’s bold gambit should be a wake up call for US firms

By Mike Wheatley Feb 5, 2014

Flush with cash from selling PCs by the bucket-load, China’s Lenovo has gorged itself on two massive acquisitions, splashing out $2.3 billion on IBM’s x86 server business, before following it up with a $2.9…

British spooks launched DDoS attacks on Anonymous hacktivists

By Mike Wheatley Feb 5, 2014

It’s not only the bad guys who carry out distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on their targets. Oh no, sometimes the ‘good guys’ will get up to the same old tricks. According to new documents released…

Bill Gates is back, but what impact will he have?

By Mike Wheatley Feb 5, 2014

Microsoft’s choice of Satya Nadella as its new CEO has been widely applauded as a brilliant move, but less uncertain is the wisdom of the new leader’s decision to bring back Bill Gates into…

Google’s transparency report still pretty opaque

By Mike Wheatley Feb 4, 2014

When Ed Snowden lifted the lid on the NSA’s PRISM program last summer, major tech firms including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo asked the US government if they could provide more information about what…

Driverless cars? How about a self-driving convoy of military trucks

By Mike Wheatley Feb 3, 2014

Google might be the most famous innovator of automated cars, but it’s not the only one ‘driving’ the concept forward. With unmanned aerial vehicles already a highly formidable and controversial part of its repertoire,…

Mike Wheatley

Introducing the completely pointless Windows 8.1 Update 1

‘Bad news’ is ‘good news’ for Bitcoin

IBM’s Mission Impossible: These chips will self-destruct in five seconds

Apple declares war on Bitcoin, but it’s a war that it’s destined to lose

Lenovo’s bold gambit should be a wake up call for US firms

British spooks launched DDoS attacks on Anonymous hacktivists

Bill Gates is back, but what impact will he have?

Google’s transparency report still pretty opaque

Driverless cars? How about a self-driving convoy of military trucks

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