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Mt. Gox Dwolla Facing Financial Issues with US Authorities

Jasmine Greene — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:34:50 +0000

Feds seize assets from Mt. Gox Dwolla account and accuse the service of violating money transfer regulations. Bitcoin is growing rapidly with several companies investing thousands of dollars on the venture. The Japanese startup Mt. Gox is one of the largest Bitcoin exchange services that allow users to convert USD to bitcoins and vice versa. Their most popular service is Dwolla – an e-wallet that allows real time transfers between individuals and companies. As of yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security has seized all of the assets in the Mt. Gox Dwolla account for violating money transfer regulations. Dwolla had no choice but to acquiesce to the request. As a currency exchange service, Mt.

Hide My Ass VPN: User Setup and Installation Guide

Jared Moya — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:31:15 +0000

Quick how-to-guide for getting one of the more popular VPN services around up and running so that you can begin protecting your traffic from the prying eyes of hackers and govts, and thwart arbitrary geographic content restrictions and Internet filtering regimes. We can all agree that Internet always has and always will be plagued by challenges to content access and data security, and it’s only the solution that many disagree about. One of the of the easiest solutions that many choose is a VPN connection. A VPN is a virtual private network with “virtual” encrypted connections routed through the Internet to remote servers.

Google Play Music All Access Offers On-Demand Subscription Service

Jasmine Greene — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:22:54 +0000

Google has unveiled the Google Play Music All Access service at their I/O that will directly compete with other on-demand music services like Spotify. For those not paying careful attention to the news, today marks Google’s I/O conference where they have already made dozens of announcements regarding their products. One of the announcements today was the launch of an on-demand subscription music service called Google Play Music All Access. The new Google Play Music All Access is built on Google’s already existing music store for Google Play. The service features a recommendation engine that will guide users towards new music they may not have already discovered by listing tracks from artists users already have in their library.

Brightcove Announces Live Streaming Module for Its Platform

Jasmine Greene — Tue, 14 May 2013 21:40:18 +0000

New Brightcove Video Cloud Live module will allow Brightcove users to easily stream live events on a wide variety of devices. In order to be competitive in the video streaming service, companies need to stand out from streaming giants like Netflix. In order to carve out a niche, many video distributors are now offering live streaming online and mobile video. Unfortunately, many companies have not been able to properly integrate the live streaming system into the on-demand video streams. Enter Brightcove. Unlike other companies, Brightcove’s new module, named the Brightcove Video Cloud Live, offers and easy way for customers to push out live video streams to a wide variety of devices.

Kim Dotcom is a Hypocrite When it Comes to 3D Printing Guns

Jon Martindale — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:15:34 +0000

Kim Dotcom might like to sound off about the freedom of the internet, freedom of speech, freedom of thought and expression, but that apparently doesn’t extend to the blueprints of 3D printable guns, as he’s told Mega staff members to remove any copies of the blueprint from the file locker. How they could learn what those files are, without the decryption key that prevents people unlawfully accessing content on the site is unknown. Of course this wouldn’t be hypocritical, if it was merely a legal issue.

Google Combines Paid and Free Storage for It’s Platforms

Jasmine Greene — Mon, 13 May 2013 22:07:58 +0000

Google web users now have access to 15GB of storage shared between Drive, Gmail and Google+ Photos. Until recently, Google users needed to keep track of free storage on all Google products separately. Today, Google has unified storage on their numerous platforms to make it easier for users to see how much storage they have left. Web users will have 15GB of free storage shared between Drive, Gmail and Google+ Photos while app customers will have 30GB. Not only will it make it easier to keep track of storage, it also allows more flexibility in use for these products. Since the storage is shared across the board for Drive, Gmail and Google+ Photos, users can decide how they want to partition of the storage space.

BitTorrent Bundle Allows Artists to Sell Content Inside a Torrent

Jared Moya — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:34:47 +0000

Creates functional stores within torrents where additional content can be unlocked for consumers to enjoy. Late last week BitTorrent Inc. continued its push to revolutionize content distribution, announcing the release of a new product called BitTorrent Bundle Alpha that offers “direct-to-fan Collaboration.” A few weeks ago it launched BitTorrent Sync, a program for sharing folders and files of any size across multiple devices and with family and friends. The program quickly caught on with users sharing more than 1PB of data. BitTorrent Bundle now creates virtual storefronts within torrents. “We used to buy music at independent record shops downtown,” it says.

US Senator Calls For Regulation of 3D Printers

Drew Wilson — Sun, 12 May 2013 18:52:00 +0000

The Liberator may have given gun enthusiasts a huge boost in confidence, but the 3D printable gun may also be attracting unwanted attention for 3D printing enthusiasts as well. Right now, a US Senator is calling for regulating 3D printers. Last Thursday, we reported on the US government censoring content on DEFCAD.org, a website that contains certain kinds of object files for 3D printing. The move was sparked when someone successfully 3D printed a fully functional handgun called the “Liberator”. The successful fabrication and subsequent raid by authorities generated two unprecedented traffic spikes to the website according to Alexa.

US Government Censors DEFCAD Website

Drew Wilson — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:06:23 +0000

3D printing has been around for a while, but with the possibility of printing a gun, there’s been a very contentious debate surrounding the technology. Now, the US government has stepped in and taken down content. The technology can print many interesting things such as human body parts, plastic figurines and even an entire building. Some, such as myself, have already seen the technology and wondered if we’ll witness the same kinds of debates we’ve seen with music and file-sharing all over again. In the last few days, there’s been some controversy over someone creating the blueprints to print an entire fully functional gun. Some say it’s the dawn of a new era where there the government can exert less control over the citizens.

Kim Dotcom publishes Mega White Paper

Jon Martindale — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:28:06 +0000

Founder of Mega and Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, has published a white paper describing and breaking down the case between the United States and Kim Dotcom. It’s an extensive document published just moments ago, so it’s going to take some time to go through, but let’s take a quick look through it at this stage in its release. One feature immediately noticeable about the document, is that it’s headed “The United States vs You (and Kim Dotcom,” showing that Dotcom is keen to continue representing himself as somewhat of a side issue in the whole argument, as well as suggesting that ultimately, his battle with the governments of both New Zealand and the USA, is a battle we’re all part of.