Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Will an Ubuntu Superphone Give Enterprises the Edge?

By Mike Wheatley Jul 30, 2013

Canonical’s bold effort to crowdsource $32 million to fund its Ubuntu Edge ‘superphone’ has generated a wave of excitement since its launch seven days ago. The company’s marketing team has been pulling out all…

Lenovo Joins Huawei & ZTE on the US Government’s Blacklist

By Mike Wheatley Jul 30, 2013

When it comes to computer hardware western governments aren’t enamored with the idea of using equipment supplied by Chinese companies. Concerns that such gear could allow the Chinese government a secret back door into…

Russia Plans To Spy on Its Citizens with Subway SIM Card Trackers

By Mike Wheatley Jul 30, 2013

If you thought that the NSA’s motivations for running its PRISM program and gathering metadata about your communications was bad enough, just wait till you see what they’re doing in Russia. According to a…

Oh No, Thailand’s Just Banned Bitcoin!

By Mike Wheatley Jul 30, 2013

Its emerged that the authorities in Thailand have effectively banned Bitcoin, ruling that the cryptocurrency is “illegal” due to an apparent incompatibility with local laws. The report came from a local Bitcoin startup, www.bitcoin.co.th,…

PRISM Fallout Leaves Black Clouds Looming Over US Tech Firms

By Mike Wheatley Jul 29, 2013

Whether or not Ed Snowden’s revelations that the NSA has been secretly monitoring web traffic have harmed national security remains a matter of debate, but there’s one thing that doesn’t appear to be in…

Homes Are Getting “Smarter”, But How Will They “Think”?

By Mike Wheatley Jul 26, 2013

Editor’s Note: the following is an excerpt from an interview with Zonoff CEO Mike Harris. Zonoff provides a comprehensive software platform for electronic devices that makes it possible to do things like turning on…

SolidFire Gets Ahead in the Cloud with Cheaper-Than-Disk SSD Storage

By Mike Wheatley Jul 26, 2013

In a move that underlines just how important high-performance storage has become for the cloud and Big Data, flash storage provider SolidFire has just secured a new round of series C funding to the…

Big Brother’s Big Data: 3 Ways The Public Can Benefit

By Mike Wheatley Jul 25, 2013

Until recently you could’ve been forgiven for thinking that Big Data was the sole domain of big business. Web companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft as we know, have more data than most, and…

Apple’s Feeling Sick: Can It Get Well Soon?

By Mike Wheatley Jul 25, 2013

Tech giants have had a pretty miserable time of late. Honors for the biggest fail went to Microsoft, which wrote off almost $1 billion on unsold Surface RT devices, while at the same time…

Randy Bias: OpenStack Needs Amazon APIs To Drive Hybrid Clouds

By Mike Wheatley Jul 24, 2013

With his outspoken views on the widespread disruption caused by cloud computing, Cloudscaling CEO Randy Bias has forged a reputation as one of the industry’s most influential voices. More than that, he’s also become…

Mike Wheatley

Will an Ubuntu Superphone Give Enterprises the Edge?

Lenovo Joins Huawei & ZTE on the US Government’s Blacklist

Russia Plans To Spy on Its Citizens with Subway SIM Card Trackers

Oh No, Thailand’s Just Banned Bitcoin!

Homes Are Getting “Smarter”, But How Will They “Think”?

Big Brother’s Big Data: 3 Ways The Public Can Benefit

Apple’s Feeling Sick: Can It Get Well Soon?

Randy Bias: OpenStack Needs Amazon APIs To Drive Hybrid Clouds

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