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Smart City fined $750k for blocking Wi-Fi hotspots in convention centers

By Mellisa Tolentino Aug 20, 2015

This week’s Smart City roundup features Smart City fined by the FCC for blocking Wi-Fi hotspots at convention centers, how one company is fighting the drought in California and a light pole that connects…

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Analytics startup Mode bags $7.5 million to make data visualization more collaborative

By Maria Deutscher Aug 20, 2015

Whenever the topic of analytics use in the enterprise is brought up and the challenges of adoption inevitably follow, priorities like simplicity, speed and the importance of supporting new kinds of data more effectively…

Travel blogger tells us how he made a million dollars and yet knew nothing about tech when he started

By James Farrell Aug 20, 2015

“I had no idea how to blog, some would argue I still don’t!” Johnny Ward, an Irish national come millionaire itinerant blogger, tells SiliconANGLE. Ward, who has now visited 154 countries, had zero technical…

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Tintri launches a hyperconverged platform to expand the appeal of its new flash arrays

By Maria Deutscher Aug 20, 2015

It’s not the first nor likely the last storage vendor to move into hyperconverged infrastructure, but Tintri Inc.’s jump aboard to the bandwagon is bound to make waves all the same. The integrated platform…

15+ ‘hidden’ features coming to your iPhone in iOS 9

By Collen Kriel Aug 20, 2015

With a little under three weeks to go until Apple is set to launch its next iPhone on September 9, the official release of iOS 9 also draws near – we expect the OS…

Employee of defunct Bitcoin firm GAW Miners subpoenaed by SEC in Ponzi scheme investigation

By Duncan Riley Aug 20, 2015

An employee of the now-defunct Bitcoin mining firm GAW Miners has been subpoenaed as part of an ongoing investigation as to whether the company, along with related entities, were nothing more than a Ponzi…

How to extend your iPhone battery life: Manually enable Low Power Mode in iOS 9

By Collen Kriel Aug 20, 2015

When Apple unveiled iOS 9 in June, the company touted the operating system’s new battery saving and power management features, claiming iOS 9 will give your iPhone “even longer battery life.” To achieve this,…

Burn baby burn: Leaked financials show Snapchat lost $128m Jan-Nov 2014 on $3m revenue

By Duncan Riley Aug 20, 2015

Messaging app provider Snapchat, Inc. may be one of the hottest startups with a unicorn valuation in 2015, but a leak of its 2014 financials show that it’s burning venture capital like there’s no…

CoreOS adds Intel hardware support to Rocket containers

By Mike Wheatley Aug 19, 2015

CoreOS Inc.’s Rocket container runtime recently emerged from nowhere to become the biggest rival to Docker Inc.’s better known container technology, and in spite of a new initiative to create a common body of…

Cloud SaaS cybersecurity firm AlienVault raises $52m Series E

By Duncan Riley Aug 19, 2015

Cloud software-as-a-service (SaaS) cybersecurity firm AlienVault, Inc. has raised $52 million Series E in a round led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) that included existing investors Trident Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, GGV…