Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Feeding the Patent Trolls: Here’s Their Side of the Story

By Mike Wheatley Jun 24, 2013

When something as mundane as using Wi-Fi in a coffee shop or making an online purchase with your smartphone provokes a lawsuit, it’s clear that the legal system is seriously flawed. Unfortunately, that’s the…

What’s Up With Mt. Gox? US Dollar Withdrawals Suspended for “Next Two Weeks”

By Mike Wheatley Jun 21, 2013

As the world’s most popular Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox sees a huge amount of traffic with thousands of users each day transferring money into the exchange to buy the virtual currency, or else to…

How to Squeeze 1,000 Terabytes of Data onto a Single DVD

By Mike Wheatley Jun 21, 2013

DVDs and Blu-ray discs probably don’t get as much respect as they deserve from technophiles, simply because the amount of data they can store in comparison to hard drives or flash is minuscule. But…

Leaked FISA Documents Show The NSA Can Access US Data Without a Warrant

By Mike Wheatley Jun 21, 2013

The Guardian has just released a new bunch of FISA documents relating to the NSA’s PRISM spying program, in particular regarding the circumstances under which it can can collect data on US citizens, and…

Hackers Make Short Work of Photoshop CC: Get Your Pirate Copy Now!

By Mike Wheatley Jun 20, 2013

Although Adobe has never explicitly stated that one of the motivating factors behind its decision to transform its Creative Cloud into a subscription-only cloud service was to curb software piracy, doing so was surely…

Skype’s “Project Chess” Allegedly Lets NSA Snoop On Your Calls

By Mike Wheatley Jun 20, 2013

Despite its repeated denials over PRISM, Skype has apparently been looking at ways it can facilitate government access to its VoIP calling service for at least five years. According to the New York Times,…

LeaseWeb Hits Back At Kim Dotcom Over Megaupload Deletion

By Mike Wheatley Jun 20, 2013

Kim Dotcom was acting up again yesterday, screaming blue murder over the fact that LeaseWeb, one of Megaupload’s former hosting providers, had apparently deleted “petabytes of data” belonging to users of the now defunct…

Microsoft Raises The White Flag Over Xbox One Policies

By Mike Wheatley Jun 20, 2013

Faced with a storm of protest from angry gamers, Microsoft has just announced a complete U-turn on its polices for its upcoming Xbox One console, meaning that game-sharing and offline game play will now…

GE’s Unassailable Lead in the Industrial Internet

By Mike Wheatley Jun 19, 2013

As if yesterday’s announcement that it’s building a new Industrial Big Data platform and expanding its partnerships with Accenture, Pivotal and Amazon Web Services wasn’t enough, GE is planning on hiring “thousands of engineers”…

Would You Give Up More Privacy For Free Wi-FI? Facebook Thinks You Will

By Mike Wheatley Jun 19, 2013

Now that we know about the NSA and PRISM, would you be willing to give up even more information about yourself to one of the spy program’s alleged participants, in return for free Wi-Fi?…

Mike Wheatley

Feeding the Patent Trolls: Here’s Their Side of the Story

What’s Up With Mt. Gox? US Dollar Withdrawals Suspended for “Next Two Weeks”

How to Squeeze 1,000 Terabytes of Data onto a Single DVD

Leaked FISA Documents Show The NSA Can Access US Data Without a Warrant

Hackers Make Short Work of Photoshop CC: Get Your Pirate Copy Now!

Skype’s “Project Chess” Allegedly Lets NSA Snoop On Your Calls

LeaseWeb Hits Back At Kim Dotcom Over Megaupload Deletion

Microsoft Raises The White Flag Over Xbox One Policies

GE’s Unassailable Lead in the Industrial Internet

Would You Give Up More Privacy For Free Wi-FI? Facebook Thinks You Will

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