Apple Earnings Preview: Don’t Expect Much, Yet
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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…
Cloud Computing & The Internet of Things go Hand in Hand
There’s no holding back the Internet of Things – this is where the world’s heading, and we’re already seeing it in concepts ranging from smart electricity meters to IBM’s rather more ambitious Smart Cities…