Saroj Kar

Saroj is a Staff Writer at SiliconANGLE covering DevOps, Emerging Tech, Mobile and Gaming news. If you have a story idea or tip, send it to @SiliconAngle on Twitter.

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Minecraft 1.7.3 update introduces Twitch streaming

Minecraft creator Mojang released the 1.73 pre-release update last week for the PC and Mac version. While the release fixes some bugs, it also introduces the ability to broadcast Twitch streams directly from the open-world sandbox game. The sharing of video gameplay apparently is the future of gaming, and Twitch is an increasingly powerful in ...

Telerik Test Studio R2 release adds cross-browser testing capabilities

Unlike conventional test systems, Telerik Test Studio is designed to check performance in modern web-applications and is a single solution to all the needs of software testing. The ability to run different types of automated tests including testing in smartphones and browsers is crucial for developers to maintain speed and stability within their apps. It ...

Valve engages a new future for gaming by joining Linux Foundation

The founder of Valve, Gabe Newell, has long been publicly declaring how good the Linux operating system is and how bad is the Microsoft Windows 8 OS happens to be–despite the fact that the vast majority of the key players in the company’s Steam platform use just Windows. Now the Bellevue company just reached a ...

Atlassian releases distributed version control system Git 1.8.5.1

Git 1.8.5.1 is now out. Git, the open source version control system designed to handle all types of projects quickly and efficiently, just reached version 1.8.5.1. Git is an open source distributed version control system for efficient, high-speed processing from very small to very large projects version management. Git 1.8.5.1 continued the trend of large ...

MyTab expands travel gift card in the UK ahead of Christmas and holiday season

MyTab, the US travel gift card company, has just launched its UK operation covering England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales. MyTab allows anyone to sign in with Facebook and create a holiday, honeymoon or any other trip plan that friends and family can fund. You can simply then redeem your funds towards travel, all within the ...

Zynga’s FishVille and CastleVille game lead manager joins myTab as cofounder

Scott Prelewicz, Senior Manager of Engineering at Zynga, has joined myTab as part of the founding team. With official ‘Top Tech Dawg’ title, Scott arrival comes with perfect timing as myTab has just launched their operation in the UK on 5th December. As part of the founding team at myTab of all things technical, Scott ...

Inside look of a high-end secretive Bitcoin farm in Hong Kong

Xiaogang Cao is an entrepreneur and journalist, and in recent days his name is appearing in the Internet  because he posted a picture of rather special mining extraction. We’re talking about images  that portray a specialized datacenter, aka one of the sites, used for the mining of bitcoins. A single bitcoin (BTC) is now worth ...

AmbushedGamer.com introduces 12 Days of Indie to raise money for Toys for Tots

Hosted by AmbushedGamer, indie game fans, streamers, and developers are joining together for the first time in the first annual 12 Days of Indie charity stream. The charity stream is set to include a number of streamers, fans and developers all joining for a common cause–to raise money for the Toys For Tots charity. Toys ...

Why social features are equally important for console games as social games

Social media like Facebook, Google+ etc. give us a relatively straightforward way to put a ‘social wrapper’ on some of our game experiences, which was missing from most versions of most of our games today. Given the chance, people will socialize around games, but to date that social activity has been almost entirely limited to ...

2013 DevOps retro round-up: Agile development meets cloud computing

Cloud computing has really made it’s mark on the industry. In addition to improving the agility influence on the communication and collaboration between developers and IT operations with the DevOps model cloud-technology has lowered costs, changed the enterprise, and given everyone a lot to think about. Through the year 2013, cloud computing evolved over time ...