Bitcoin Anonymity Upgrade Zerocoin To Become An Independent Cryptocurrency


When a group of cryptographers launched Zerocoin last year, they hoped their cryptography project could upgrade Bitcoin to be as anonymous as its most privacy-focused users have always wanted it to...
    






Microsoft Expects To Make Another Xbox


Will we see a Playstation 5? How about an Xbox…um…two? As soon as Sony and Microsoft announced the PS4 and Xbox One, complete with robust cloud capabilities, pundits such as myself started wondering...
    






Crowdsourcing Drives Podcast Quality


One of the great joys of the digital age has been the uncoupling of entertainment from both time and location.  Gone are the days of finishing up dinner in a hurry to get to the TV in time to see I...
    






Two Words To Watch For In 2014


And neither one is Internet, of or things. But they aren’t new, either. They’re just old words making their way in a new year. And the first is … Animism. Hardly a new concept. Used here in the...
    






Wireless Charging Is The Must-Have Feature for Apple’s iWatch


Many vendors at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, including Intel, showed wireless charging products. Meanwhile, it is expected that Samsung will release the Galaxy Gear 2...
    






A $100 Worth Of Litecoin A Year Ago Is Worth $30,000 Today


Last month, we subjected readers to a hindsight lament: How you should have spent $100 at the beginning of 2013. Using the Forbes time travel machine, we went back to last January and dropped...
    






Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 dual-booting tablet


Famous gadget maker Fujitsu has recently joined the dual booting race with their new device, Q704 tablet, but that is not in the way you are expecting. Instead of a device of Android/Windows dual...
    






Week Ahead: Fasten Seatbelts For Earnings, Indicators & Budget Fight


Stock markets shrugged off Friday’s confusingly low U.S. job creation numbers – so let’s see how they cope with an onslaught of news this coming week in the shape of big company earnings, economic...
    






The hottest gadgets of CES: 3-D printers to 4K TVs


The coolest tech at CES, from driverless cars to sugar printers and heat cameras for iPhones LAS VEGAS (AP) — The biggest gadget trade show in the Americas wrapped up on Friday in Las...
    






Beats Music Aims To Take Streaming Mass Market


Beats Electronics, the fashion headphone behemoth led by Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre, has officially announced its plans to launch a music streaming service in the U.S. on January 21. Dubbed Beats...