Bitcoin celebrates with its own Bitfilm festival
You know something is getting big when they make a movie out of it. So what does a dedicated film festival say about that ‘something’? It means that it’s ‘something’ you had better start…
Startup Soft Machines claims its chip design more than doubles CPU performance
Stealthy semiconductor design startup Soft Machines Inc., has come out with a Variable Instruction Set Computing (VISC) conceptual architecture that it says could usher in a new era of scaling and performance. Soft Machines…
BlackBerry secures a bevy of U.S. patents and may join the fast-growing wearables market
By Collen Kriel
The Financial Post has reported that Blackberry Ltd. has attained 27 new U.S. patents. According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Official Gazette, included in the patents are security features and a user…
HP launches community edition of Helion OpenStack
Hewlett-Packard Co. has made good on an earlier promise to build and offer its own OpenStack distribution with the general release of its Helion OpenStack software. HP’s Helion is based on the new Juno…
Bitcoin scammers get served with lawsuit from Silver Law Group
The appeal of Bitcoin as an investment has increased over the years, especially now that more merchants and retailers are accepting it. But as with anything that attracts investors and big money, scammers will…
Twitter acquires Twitpic’s archive at the eleventh hour
By Collen Kriel
Twitter Inc. has saved Twitpic Inc. Noah Everett, creator of Twitpic, announced on their blog on October 25 “I’m happy to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to give them the…
Thousands protest proposed “Internet tax” in Hungary
Angered by government plans to impose the world’s first tax on web traffic, thousands of Hungarians have taken to the streets of Budapest in protest. RT News reports that “tens of thousands” of people…
How FortyCloud addresses cloud security: Q&A with CEO Amit Cohen
There’s a new wave of security vendors surfacing that are offering more innovative ways to address cloud security in light of enterprises’ increasing concerns about how to securely migrate to the cloud. One of…
What you missed in Big Data: Oracle, eBay join Hadoop open-source party
The past week has seen not one but two technology giants take on a bigger role in the open-source community’s efforts to bring modern analytics within the grasp of the traditional enterprise. Online retail…
HP launches commercial OpenStack distro along with developer and customer goodies
Hewlett-Packard Co. has moved another step closer to realizing its lofty vision for a homegrown hybrid cloud with the introduction of the long-awaited commercial version of its OpenStack distribution and two complementary products aimed…