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Google Stealthily Erases The Pirate Bay, BitTorrent from Instant Search Suggestions
Google has entered the Pirate Bay and BitTorrent fleet battle via submarine torpedo against the ever-popular technology by stealthily leaving words related to these items out of the autocomplete. When searching on Google, customers are given autocompletion suggestions but Google also has a list of “banned words” that do not autocomplete, now Pirate Bay’s domain ...
Stranger Than Fiction: Romney’s Tax Records Ransomed for Bitcoin
In what is probably the weirdest news to date involving Bitcoin, the favorite darling virtual currency, it looks as if an anonymous group has claimed to have pilfered Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax records and is demanding $1 million BTC to not unleash the information. According to an article today in CNN the group published ...
Pluarlsight Does “Call Me Maybe” the Developer Way
It’s Wednesday, so let’s just take a short break from our computers and remember that development and operations can be fun. Software development and DevOps isn’t just about computers and numbers, it involves people and teams. The Pluarlsight staff decided to get together and collage a music video of them singing along with “Call Me ...
Kendo UI by Telerik Brings HTML5 Into Focus for Mobile App Developers
Telerik, a leading provider of developer tools and solutions announced a major update to its product Kendo UI. It has released the Kendo UI Complete with several new features, like support for tablet U and server-side wrappers for ASP.NET MVC. This enhancement has been created to enable developers to quickly build rich, native-like, and simplify ...
Guild Wars 2 on the Virtual Gaming Economy
Virtual items have become a part of the mainstream Internet culture by way of massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) and social games such as hook into Facebook. After all, what exactly is a pair of sunglasses for your Farmville sheep, or your cute little avatar worth to you? Perhaps a few cents, but sometimes these ...
Bringing Sexy Back to Virtualization: VMworld 2012
We’re cooling our heels over here at SiliconANGLE after hoofing it around VMworld 2012 with a vengeance—we’ve seen the release of so many great products, the cloud has never been hotter (except in the event of pyroclastic flow from a volcano.) In this round our top stories have come from speaking about how VMware needs ...
President Obama Hip to the Reddit Social Experience
Yesterday, the President of the United States did something no other President has ever done before: he took a moment out of his extremely busy day and started up an AMA on Reddit. Otherwise known as an “Ask Me Anything” thread on the ever popular social media site, these posts are used by celebrities, industry ...
Hacktivist Group GhostShell Leaks 1 Million Accounts From Banks, Governments, and Consultancy Firms
Over the weekend an as-yet-unknown hacker group called Team GhostShell spilled account credentials from some extremely hard targets over the weekend (or so it seems) and they’ve also gone as far as to name their affiliation with the hacktivist collective Anonymous. In their Pastebin post, the hactivist group penned the name “Hellfire” to their project ...
Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and the Live Streaming Revolution for Gaming
Social media and video has an interesting culture when it comes to people sharing their lives what started with people pushing images from phones to services such as Instragram and the webcam revolution with YouTube has become also a utopia for gamers. The proliferation of HDPVRs and capture cards have enabled console and PC gamers ...
Xbox LIVE Goes Political with Real-Time Polling Capability for the 2012 Elections
Microsoft is seeking to become the first limb of the future AllThing (a political body that consisted of the voting minds of an entire population seen in Dan Simmons’s Hyperion) by putting the ability to do live polling in the hands of Xbox LIVE users during the Presidential debates. Console owners will be given the ...