Future tech: Implantable brain chips could help unlock memories
Imagine a world wherein you can just download information right into your brain? Just stick a jack into the back of your head, hit the ‘download’ button and away you go! It would be…
Ballmer hits out against Xbox & Bing naysayers
Steve Ballmer is keenly aware that more than a few investors have the knives out for ‘under-performing’ divisions like the Xbox and Bing, but he’s determined to shut them up. In his last-ever shareholder…
Salesforce’s Benioff explains grand vision behind Salesforce1
If your electric toothbrush comes with GPS and Wi-Fi enabled, Salesforce wants to be the company that manages the data it creates, keeping your dentist informed about your teeth brushing habits. That is the…
vBulletin forums hacked: Inj3ct0r Team tries to sell zero-day flaw
It’s come to light that the makers of the popular web forum software vBulletin have admitted a major security breach last Friday, which saw their network successfully hacked and breached, with the hackers gaining…
Death by Bitcoin: Say hello to the anonymous, crowd-funded Assassination Market
Would you be prepared to kill for a small fortune in Bitcoin? Well, that’s the reward on offer over at a new website called the Assassination Market, a sick and twisted take on crowd-funding…
Bitcoin value hits $649, you can blame it on China!
Bitcoin is spiraling out of control – the cryptocurrency soared to a record high of $649, before tailing off slightly to $640 at the time of writing, on the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange. This…
Salesforce swoops on the Internet of Things with Salesforce1
On Monday, Salesforce is set to announce its next-generation CRM platform called Salesforce1, which is envisaged as providing a way for software vendors, developers and customers to integrate third-party services like as Dropbox and…
Google crushes Authors Guild in long-running book scanning dispute
For almost a decade, the Authors Guild has waged a bitter war against Google and its massive book search engine project, accusing it of violating copyrights on an industrial scale by scanning the pages…
AWS unveils new security service + games, apps and desktops streamed from the cloud
Amazon Web Services rolled out a series of important, but admittedly not groundbreaking, services yesterday during day two of its AWS Re:Invent conference. The services were introduced by Andrew Jassy, senior vice president of…
“No Thanks” – Snapchat snubbed Facebook’s $3B buyout offer
Did Facebook really offer $3 billion to buy the popular messaging service Snapchat? The Wall Street Journal says that it did, citing “unnamed people briefed on the matter” in its report. The WSJ says…