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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.

The First Firefox OS Phone Has Just Arrived, Look Out Android!

By Mike Wheatley Jul 1, 2013

Last February at the Mobile World Congress we saw a clutch of mobile phone carriers pledge support for Mozilla’s Firefox OS, its new HTML-5- based open web mobile platform that it hopes will have…

Snowden’s Latest PRISM Leak No Big Surprise

By Mike Wheatley Jul 1, 2013

Ed Snowden was up to his old tricks last weekend with yet another bunch of documents being leaked to The Guardian and the Washington Post. There were two themes to this weekend’s leaks, centering…

How People Will Drive the Industrial Internet Revolution

By Mike Wheatley Jun 28, 2013

Computers are regarded as ‘intelligent’ machines, but this intelligence only comes from human operators telling them what to do. Now, we’re seeing a new wave of innovation that’s transforming all kinds of machines –…

EFF & FBI Face-Off Over NGI Facial Recognition Database

By Mike Wheatley Jun 28, 2013

Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has just filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the Department of Justice, accusing them of ignoring its repeated requests for more information pertaining to their…

Adobe Snaps Up Neolane As Marketing Tech Battle Lines Are Drawn

By Mike Wheatley Jun 28, 2013

Adobe has just splashed out $600 million in cash to acquire the French marketing automation firm Neolane, best known for its “conversational marketing” technology. It’s products are pretty nifty, allowing marketers to integrate data…

“Atlantis” Online Black Market Flaunts Itself On YouTube

By Mike Wheatley Jun 28, 2013

Most of us have heard of these so-called ‘underground’ websites like the Silk Road lurking amidst the “dark web”, where it’s supposedly possible to buy anything from drugs to guns and even assassins for…

PayPal Boldy Goes Where No Payment Processor Has Gone Before…

By Mike Wheatley Jun 27, 2013

We all know how to buy things in cyberspace, but how on earth do we go about doing business in outer space? The answer to this problem could well be something we’re already familiar…

Microsoft Adds Engine Yard to its Azure Cloud

By Mike Wheatley Jun 27, 2013

Microsoft has added Engine Yard’s platform-as-a-service into its Windows Azure marketplace as it looks to push its cloud product out to developers. The two companies announced the addition of Engine Yard’s technology to Azure…

How To Get in FONT of the NSA : Fight PRISM with Coded Design

By Mike Wheatley Jun 26, 2013

Since the revelations erupted over the PRISM spying program, we've seen all manner of weird and wonderful ways to avoid the NSA's security dragnet. But this new method tops them all, and by some…

Making YouTube Faster

By Mike Wheatley Jun 26, 2013

Watching some of the garbage on YouTube can be tortuous at the best of times, and even more so when you’re doing it with a piss-poor internet connection that causes it to freeze every…