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Facebook adds new Nearby Friends feature to engage mobile users
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-04-17 19:41
Facebook has spent a lot of time recently talking about anything but Facebook. Instead, the company has spent billions buying technology and developing new apps separate from the Facebook service. But on Thursday, the social network announced the first significant feature for its core product in over a year.
Called Nearby Friends, it lets users see which of their Facebook friends are in physical proximity to them.
Singapore broker urges 'light touch' Bitcoin regulation
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-04-17 07:08
Singapore should adopt a light touch approach in regulating virtual currencies such as Bitcion, and instead allow technology to do most of the "governing" to safeguard against illegal activities.
According to David Moskowitz, director of Singapore-based Bitcoin broker, Coin Republic, regulation alone will not necessarily achieve its goal of addressing concerns such as money laundering or the failure of a Bitcoin exchange.
Sony: PS4 sales surpass 7 million units worldwide
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-04-17 07:05
Sony continues to issue updates about its overall sales for the PlayStation 4 console. Today, the company said that worldwide, its newest home game console has sold over 7 million units since it launched on November 15th to April 6th.
Sony's press release comes about six weeks after the company announced PS4 worldwide sales had exceeded the 6 million mark. The company also announced today that over 20.5 million copies of PS4 games have been sold, either as physical copies or via download, since the launch.
Too big to trust? Google's growing credibility gap
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-04-16 06:45
Remember when we all loved Google? Its search engine was both simple to use and an unbiased portal to anything you wanted to know. It was founded by two college students at a time when Silicon Valley was a shining beacon of what was right in the world, during sunny economic and political times.
Pakistan mulls cyber security bill to keep NSA at bay
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-04-15 05:00
Pakistan’s Upper House this week began debating a new bill seeking to establish a National Cyber Security Council, an agency the nation feels is needed in the wake of Edward Snowden's myriad revelations about NSA surveillance.
The Cyber Security Council Bill 2014 was presented by Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed on Monday with the aim of creating a body to draft policy, guidelines and strategy on cyber security issues according to international best practices, in line with Pakistan Today.