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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The US Regulatory Side Effect, Tradehill Stops Bitcoin Trading

While the Bitcoin community is trying to adjust the new regulatory rules and scrutiny, things aren’t going as well as they used to. Government agencies are targeting Bitcoin traders and in a latest development Bitcoin exchange Tradehill has suspended its platform indefinitely. Over the weekend, the exchange for virtual currencies such as Bitcoin, entered into ...

Minecraft 1.7 Brings Update to World Generator and New Biomes

The development team at Mojang announces that the company is working on a number of big updates for the world generator part of Minecraft, which includes the addition of new biomes for players to use and explore. The developers have also released two overview maps, which should prove the better distribution of biomes. A biome ...

Electronic Arts Celebrates 25 Million Downloads of Plants vs Zombies 2 in Two Weeks

The mobile market is growing rapidly. In recent days, the average player is delighted with faster titles and ease of online play, such as those available on iOS or Android platforms. One such recently released game is Plants vs. Zombies 2, a new chapter in the tower defense series that has really captured the attention ...

VMworld DevOps Round Up: From Software Driven Model to Change of DevOps Culture #VMworld

The IT world has been changing very fast over the past few years, with seemingly everything going to the cloud and virtualization. Advanced enterprises are using cloud in ways that are far beyond where most companies are today, and many others are jumping on the business opportunities that cloud can enable. Success in modern IT ...

The Dark Side of Failed Indie Game Development: It’s no Path of Roses

The indie game developer is filled with starry eyed, hoping to make the game of their dreams. But the game development is not easy, and has many snags along the way. You’ve probably heard this before, but many indie game developers either quit or fail to finish their game projects. There are literally thousands of ...

How Often Governments Knock at Facebook, Altogether 38,000 Requests in 2013

The discovery of NSA snooping has at least one positive effect: several tech companies are trying to point to sudden transparency. Almost every day there is news now about which networks with which governments work together and where they get their data. Facebook yesterday released its first “Global Government Requests Report”, which contains the government requests to ...

SUSE Extends Linux Enterprise Server to VMware vCloud Hybrid Cloud Service #VMworld

VMware announced the U.S. availability of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) VMware vCloud Hybrid Service at the ongoing VMWorld 2013. Suse Linux vendor is expanding its collaboration with VMware and offers Suse Linux Enterprise Server for VMware on the VMware vCloud hybrid service. Since 2010, the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is available with VMware vSphere. ...

Couchbase Raises $25 Million to Drive NoSQL Product Into Enterprise and Beyond

NoSQL database and thought-leader Couchbase has just announced a $25 million round of funding to expand into enterprise growth in series D funding. This comes amid huge sales increases for the company of over 400% and will allow them to reach out into even more sectors–the database is already known to be used by enterprise ...

The Revelations of Snowden on the NSA and Anti-Piracy Laws Stimulate the Use of VPN

An investigation revealed that the discovery of  NSA spying and anti-piracy laws are the reasons most frequently cited among new VPN users when they sign up for an account. IVPN ran a survey among some of its customers, asking them about their reasons to choose a VPN subscription. According to the findings, demand for VPNs ...

Bitcoin on Promotional Tour with the U.S. Law Makers Amid Growing Focus on Digital Currency

Bitcoin is currently the most widespread virtual cryptocurrency; but the currency continually comes under fire in recent times as suspicions of its use for criminal activities such as money laundering and drug trafficking. As well as increased attention from regulatory agencies in the US and abroad and it’s recent recognition as actual money has led ...