Got extra bandwidth? Share it for Bitcoin rewards
While some eat up their monthly allotted data very quickly, others have so much that they just don’t know what to do with it. If you’re one of those who often happens to have…
Using ‘anonymous’ credit card metadata and a few Tweets, scientists reidentify consumers
By Collen Kriel
Individuals can be identified by credit card metadata, even when information that we see as important like name, address or credit card number has been stripped out. These are some of the findings of…
Twitter makes account creation easier with instant feeds
By Eric David
Twitter Inc. has been talking about automatically generated news feeds for about a year now, and the microblog service has finally begun testing the first public version of the new feature. While the purpose…
New Apple Watch app to control your Tesla Model S
By Collen Kriel
Apple Watch is on track to launch in April and with the release of the WatchKit SDK in November last year, several developers, including ESPN, Instagram and American Airlines have been hard at work…
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Sales automation vendor Apttus lands $41M investment from Salesforce Ventures
The process of converting leads into paying customers takes up much of the modern marketer’s time and effort, but the work hardly ends there. Sorting out the logistical details of closing a deal can…
Report: Apple Stores getting jewelry store-like security treatment to house 18k gold Apple Watch
By Collen Kriel
Apple Inc.’s Apple Store retail outlets are likely to start resembling high-end jewelry stores leading up to the April launch of the Apple Watch. In preparation for the handling and sale of the 18-karat…
IDC: Tablet shipments decline in Q4 2014; Apple clings to top spot
By Collen Kriel
For the first time since its birth in 2010, the worldwide tablet market has seen a year-over-year decline in shipments. Only 76.1 million devices were shipped in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2014; a…
Microsoft appeals to developers in announcing Windows 10 will run on Raspberry Pi
Microsoft has announced that the upcoming Windows 10 OS will run on the Raspberry Pi 2 single board computer, the next generation of the Raspberry PI board whose new specs – a quad-core ARM7…
Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others paying Adblock Plus to show their ads
By Duncan Riley
Eyeo GmbH’s popular Adblock Plus program is in the news today for all the wrong reasons: the company is taking money from advertisers to let their ads be seen by Adblock Plus users. A…
Samsung Galaxy S6 to launch March 1st, may have curved screen
By Duncan Riley
Samsung Co. Ltd.’s new flagship phone the Galaxy S6 will be launched March 1st, with the company sending out invitations to a press event in Barcelona. The invite includes a curved screen, hinting that Samsung…