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Mike Wheatley

Mike Wheatley is a senior staff writer at SiliconANGLE. He loves to write about Big Data and the Internet of Things, and explore how these technologies are evolving and helping businesses to become more agile.

Before joining SiliconANGLE, Mike was an editor at Argophilia Travel News, an occassional contributer to The Epoch Times, and has also dabbled in SEO and social media marketing. He usually bases himself in Bangkok, Thailand, though he can often be found roaming through the jungles or chilling on a beach.

Got a news story or tip? Email Mike@SiliconANGLE.com.

Gmail Embraces Spam with Ads in your Inbox

By Mike Wheatley Jul 24, 2013

If you’ve had the ‘pleasure’ of being upgraded to Gmail’s new-look, self-organizing inbox in the last couple of weeks, you might’ve noticed something off. Google has taken the opportunity of using the redesign to…

Apple Earnings Preview: Don’t Expect Much, Yet

By Mike Wheatley Jul 23, 2013

Apple is the next tech giant in line to announce its quarterly earnings later today, and once again all eyes will be on the performance of its flagship iPhone. As we all know, the…

Hackers Causing Havoc Again: Apple, Ubuntu and NASDAQ All Breached

By Mike Wheatley Jul 22, 2013

It’s been a while since we had a good ol’ high profile hack. The last major incident that really hit the headlines was probably Anonymous’ hit on a bunch of official North Korean websites,…

Facebook Earnings Preview: Will Mobile Ads Finally Pay Off?

By Mike Wheatley Jul 22, 2013

Facebook is one of a number of tech companies set to announce its second-quarter financial results this week, and its earnings are expected to be among the most closely scrutinized as its mobile strategy…

SIM Card Vulnerability Puts One Quarter of all Phones At Risk

By Mike Wheatley Jul 21, 2013

As many as one quarter of all mobile phones in use in the world today could be vulnerable to an SMS attack that allows hackers to gain full control of the phone. The vulnerability…

SatoshiDice Sold For 126,315 BTC in World’s First Major Bitcoin Acquisition

By Mike Wheatley Jul 19, 2013

The Bitcoin world has been shaken up this morning with the acquisition of SatoshiDice, an online casino that deals exclusively in the cryptocurrency. Not only does the deal represent the first major acquisition of…

How The NSA Taps Undersea Fiber Optic Cables

By Mike Wheatley Jul 19, 2013

The old saying goes that there’s more than one way to skin a cat, and that holds true for the NSA and the way it eavesdrops on global communications. In the latest round of…

Ditch The Cloud With These 3 Cloud-Like Storage Alternatives

By Mike Wheatley Jul 18, 2013

Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman recently stated that while cloud computing has been much talked about over the past five years, we’re still in the early stages. Which means there’s still lots that can…

Google ‘Drives’ Up Encryption, But Can It Be Trusted?

By Mike Wheatley Jul 18, 2013

With privacy concerns over cloud storage services at an all time high, Google is reported to be experimenting with new methods of encrypting files stored within Google Drive. Though Google has yet to confirm…

ICANN Awards Four New Internet Domains, But .amazon Is Up The Creek

By Mike Wheatley Jul 18, 2013

It’s been an interminably long road, but the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has finally taken its first concrete steps towards changing the way the world wide web will be navigated…