Isha Suri

Isha Suri is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE covering social news and security trends. If you have a story idea or news tip, send it to @SiliconAngle on Twitter.

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How DevOps is Done at Etsy: In the Words of Sam Haskins

DevOps. DevOps. DevOps. This was a buzz word in IT/ITeS enterprises for most of 2012, and will remain this year too. Perhaps, for the coming few years as well. While we all are eager to know and implement the best practices of DevOps, here comes an interview from Etsy’s Sam Haskins who shared his experience ...

ZeroTurnaround Announces LiveRebel 2.6

ZeroTurnaround, Estonia based IT software company, has just announced the availability of LiveRebel 2.6, a software designed to eliminate server downtime when initiating updates to running applications. Some of the new features of LiveRebel 2.6 include following: Support for applications built using Java, PHP, Python, PERL and Ruby; Database updates and version control; Multiplatform updates ...

US Government Seeks to Regulate Bitcoin Transactions Under Anti-Money Laundering Rules

Money laundering is a serious concern for most, or all countries across the globe – be a developed or developing nation. That’s why every country has its own set of anti-laundering rules. While we all know that U.S. has strict money laundering rules for its currency, the nation’s Treasury Department is now putting money-laundering rules ...

Over 100 Million Americans Love Free-To-Play Games, Do You?

We all love free stuff–be it free samples, coupons, or games. A recent study conducted by monetization solutions firm PlaySpan, in conjunction with research company Frank N. Magid Associates suggests that over 110 million Americans who prefer F2P over games with a price tag. The poll also reveals that 82 percent of women prefer F2P, ...

Syrian Hacktivists Take Over BBC Weather Feed

Following the trend of Twitter hijacking, a Syrian hacktivist group hijacked the BBC Weather Twitter account on Thursday afternoon. BBC uses its @BBCWeather account to tweet weather updates and warnings, as well as behind-the-scenes pictures from BBC forecasters and presenters. So yesterday, instead of getting the usual updates, the 60,000 followers of the @BBCWeather account ...

MIT To Reveal Documents Related To Aaron Swartz Trial

After a long wait, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has agreed to release the documents related to the trial of Aaron Swartz, who killed himself in January. The renowned Internet activist was accused of illegally downloading academic documents using MIT networks, following which he killed himself. Later, Swartz’s lawyers filed a motion in a US ...

Google Dresses Up DNS Lookups with Enhanced Security Features

When we talk about DNS lookup, security becomes a common concern. Having considered the same, Google has fully implemented a security feature that ensures a person looking up a website isn’t accidentally directed to a fake one. Launched in 2009, Google’s Public DNS is a free DNS lookup service that helps translate a domain name, ...

Tradehill Revives With Business-Focused “Prime” for Bitcoin

Tradehill is making second attempt to revive itself, aiming at making money off Bitcoin. The renowned, second largest exchange for experimental virtual currency Bitcoin had to close down due to a protracted regulatory dispute and a string of payments fraud charges. As a part of this attempt, Tradehill is ready for a re-launch with a ...

HTML5 Wins Over Native for Cross-Platform Development – Kendo UI Survey

A recent survey conducted by Kendo UI revealed that the global developers prefer HTML5 over native SDKs. Conducted among 5000 developers, CIOS and technology executive; the Global Developer Survey also found that developers love Win 8 and Android over iOS and BlackBerry for ease-of-use. Whats interesting though is HTML5 beating out Native SDKs as the ...

Large Data Analytics Made Easy with Google BigQuery

Data analysis in this era of Big Data is certainly not easy, but Google is determined to make it simple by adding new capabilities to Google BigQuery that will give your business new ways to work effectively with large amounts of data. Google has introduced three major updates to BigQuery to help simplify the large ...