Swap agreement aims to protect Bitcoin holders from the next crash

From PC World: Businesses that permit Bitcoin transactions may soon have a way to protect themselves from drops in the digital currency’s value.

Tera Group, a financial derivatives marketplace, announced Monday what it calls the first standardized agreement for Bitcoin swaps, designed to let...

Cisco plans $1B investment in global cloud infrastructure

From PC World:

Cisco Systems plans to invest over US$1 billion to expand its cloud business over the next two years, including building an OpenStack-based “network of clouds” with partners.

The whole IT industry is moving to a world where more applications are running in hosted environments, and...

Microsoft Wants Quick Death for Office 2003, Leads Users to Office 365

From DailyTech: Microsoft has stepped up its efforts in recent months to kill off Windows XP for good, and those efforts are now extending to Office 2003. Office 2003 has been around for over a decade and Microsoft wants users to switch to Office 365.

Microsoft wrote in a blog post, "Office 2003...

Firefox's UI face-lift on track for April debut

From InfoWorld: Mozilla is on track to debut the new "Australis" user interface (UI) for Firefox next month after promoting the UI to its beta build last week.

Australis, the first visual overhaul of Firefox since March 2011, was added to the "Beta" channel of Firefox 29 on March 20. Mozilla uses a...

Small bitcoin exchange, Vircurex, teeters after large withdrawals

From PC World: A small bitcoin exchange in Beijing is in trouble again after trying to earn back funds lost in two hacking incidents last year.

The exchange, called Vircurex, said in a statement it would freeze on Monday cryptocurrency accounts held by its customers after large withdrawals...

Microsoft's rules, not Metro, killed Metro Firefox dead

From PC World: A former Mozilla engineer who worked on the “Metro” version of Firefox argued yesterday that poor adoption of Windows 8’s radical user interface (UI) was not the real cause of the decision to shelve the browser.

“Is Windows 8.1 ‘Modern’ UI in trouble? No,” said Brian Bondy, who led...

Asian Regulators Delay Microsoft's Nokia Acquisition Until April

From DailyTech: Nokia has announced that it is expecting the deal that will see Microsoft buying its Devices & Services arm to close a month later than previously expected. Nokia now expects the deal to close in April 2014 instead later this month.

Before the deal can close, approval from...

Func MS-3 Revision 2 w/F-Series 10 L Review

Inspirational quotes are a dime a dozen nowadays. For every person who claims to have their lives turned around by some seemingly deep thought written by a person they probably do not even remember, there are probably dozens more who have read the same thing, and their lives were no different than it was before they came across it. The way I see it, what changes a person's life is not by purely by some eloquent words printed on a piece of paper...

Wintel Rides Again, Now to IoT

From EETimes: Microsoft is expected to announce a partnership in April to dive into the Internet of Things with its veteran PC partner, Intel. The two are expect to deliver an IoT offering that supports Intel's Quark, a Pentium-class processor for the IoT.

It's not clear whether the work will focus...

Mt. Gox finds $116m worth of bitcoins

From PC World: Mt. Gox has said it found 200,000 of the bitcoins it claimed may have disappeared as a result of a software flaw.

In a statement on its website Thursday, the failed exchange said it found 200,000 bitcoins in an old-format digital wallet, reducing the number of bitcoins missing to 650...

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