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Dwolla Brings Mobile Money to iOS and Android with Big Update
Des Moines-based Dwolla has expanded it’s capabilities for mobile users seeking to exchange money on-the-go with updates to their iOS and Android apps. Be sure to check out the images of the apps embedded below. Last December, the financial-network service released “Instant,” a payment mechanism as an opt-in feature that allows Dowalla customers install access ...
Bitcoins for World of Warcraft Virtual Gold? Just Look to Bitmit.net
The ever-popular World of Warcraft published by Blizzard is one of the most-played massively-multiplayer video games of all time (it’s certainly the most-subscribed) and there’s been a thriving economy in the game for some time. We’ve described this economy on SiliconANGLE before when we looked at statistics about where the gold in the game was ...
The Ukraine’s Largest File-Sharing Site Ex.ua Goes Dark After Raid
In what’s becoming the dark-age for cyberlockers, Ukraine-based Ex.ua just went dark after country authorities raided the site and seized equipment. According to an article on TorrentFreak, since being founded in 2009 it has been one of the most visited sites in the Ukraine and used to house 200 servers and over 6,000 terabytes of ...
Premiumize.me Now Delivers Anonymizing Proxy for Bitcoin Users
German Bitcoin blog, BTC Base, recently interviewed Mika of Premiumize.me, an Internet anonymization proxy service that gives users the option to go online and secure their location from prying eyes. It does so via multiple servers around the world that act as exit-points for Internet traffic and they store very little distinct information about the ...
The Internet and Video Gamers Could Unlock the Next Breakthrough in Science
They could, we just need to figure out how. I recently watched an amazing TEDx talk by Luis von Ahn about massive-scale online collaboration through systems such as how reCAPTCHA uses a common Internet method of determining humanity to digitize books. This sort of crowdsourcing has elements of expectation that could be brought to bear ...
Chilly Storms Brewing in the Cloud Over Megaupload Takedown
Last week saw what felt like a surprise move by the US government against the Hong Kong-based file sharing site, Megaupload. Swooping in from afar the company and several of its executives found themselves embroiled in a legal battle. The takedown and its proximity to the SOPA protests even triggered one of the largest DDoS ...
Valve Delivers with Smartphone Steam App Beta
The digital-distribution gaming company Valve has started a closed beta for a smartphone app that will allow access to their social-gaming and delivery Steam service on both Android and iOS. While the app will not allow people to play games, it will permit customers the ability to access their social profiles and purchase games from ...
Microsoft Rumors: Microsoft Points Going Away and the Xbox 720’s Massive Video Card
As the year advances, so do rumors about the next-gen gaming consoles that might be leaping forth from the major players in that arena such as when we’ll see the Wii-U—and now it’s also about what will be in the Xbox 720. However, before all that speculation comes to fruition there’s the matter of the ...
Nintendo Announces a Darker Financial Forecast as Wii-U Appears on the Horizon
Japanese gaming behemoth Nintendo has reported a gigantic financial loss of 48.4 billion yen for the last three quarters of 2011 making this their first annual loss in 30 years. PCMag has furnished an article about Nintendo’s Thursday announcement that they took a loss of almost $627.9 million for the nine-month period that ended in ...
Online World Virtual Learning for Kids Delivered to Schools by Fantage
The massively-multiplayer online gaming ecology currently is dominated with games directed at teenagers and adults, just like most video games; however, this doesn’t mean that games—which have traditionally had a stereotype as being for children—cannot be marketed towards elementary school aged children. We’ve seen games such as Wizards 101, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and even ...