Source: Gigaom
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Sony’s PSN service has recovered from the recent DDoS attack
Following yesterday's distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, Sony said this morning both the PlayStation Network and the Sony Entertainment Network are back online. Users can now resume game downloads,...
MIT wants to make drone deliveries a reality
The same day that Amazon announced a trial run of its delivery by drone service in India, a couple of MIT researchers released a new study that shows how to...
Apple looks to be gearing up for HD voice-over-LTE support
Apple appears to be gearing up for high-definition voice-over-LTE (HD VoLTE) support in future mobile products The company is currently advertising for a cellular systems protocol engineer, calling for experience...
Netflix is now paying Time Warner Cable for faster streams
Comcast, then Verizon, AT&T and now Time Warner Cable. That's the list of ISPs that have less-than-politely declined Netflix's free OpenConnect setup, and instead decided they'll take a payment from...
Google is offering cluster management for Google Cloud Platform
Google is drawing from the work of the open-source community to offer its cloud customers a service to better manage their clusters of virtual servers. On Monday, the Google Cloud...
Microsoft may need to start worrying of the future of Windows Phone
Windows Phone sales have been consistently increasing year-over-year each quarter for the last year, but new figures show that growth has significantly stalled recently. IDC reports that Windows Phone sales...
Uber wants you to share a taxi with a stranger so you can save money
Uber wants you to get into an unfamiliar car with a total stranger. But that may be a price worth paying for a cheaper ride. The company's new UberPool feature...
The CIA’s personal Amazon cloud is now live
The Central Intelligence Agency is now officially an Amazon Web Services cloud consumer. Less than 10 months after a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge ended a public battle between...
Apple is about to vastly improve its content delivery speeds
Apple is apparently working hard on improving iTunes content download speeds for users, Streaming Media reports, with the company having already deployed its own content delivery network that’s already serving...
Facebook is facing a serious privacy lawsuit in Austria
Privacy campaign group Europe-v-Facebook is inviting Facebook users outside the U.S. and Canada to join a lawsuit against the company, which it alleges violates privacy laws. Europe-v-Facebook's front man Max...
Microsoft has created an HTML5 version of Settlers of Catan
Microsoft has something of an extracurricular activity: When it's not releasing Office for iPad or updating Windows, it has a habit of helping other companies build websites. Its latest project...
Elliptic has raised $2 million to help companies store and handle Bitcoin
In the first UK institutional investment into Bitcoin storage, Octopus Investments has invested $2m into Elliptic. It’s first product, Elliptic Vault, claims to be the world’s first ever insured Bitcoin...
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