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February 14, 2013, 9:53 PM — The popular social-news site Reddit said it will now accept bitcoins, following blogging platform WordPress in embracing the four-year-old virtual currency. Reddit, which lets users submit and vote on popular Web content, already uses PayPal and Google Wal...
February 17, 2013, 9:32 PM — Mega will accept the virtual currency bitcoin for subscriptions for more storage space on the file-sharing service, cofounder Kim Dotcom announced on Twitter. Mega is the second prominent website in a week to say it will accept payment in bitcoin , which h...
December 10, 2012, 9:10 PM — A small company in France plans to make bitcoin easier to handle early next year by issuing debit cards linked to payment accounts that can accept the alternative currency. The Paris-based company, Paymium , has operated a website called Bitcoin-Central si...
February 02, 2013, 6:42 PM — Here's how you can download the Ruby Blast app free for Android devices. 1. Go to the Google Play page for the free app Ruby Blast . 2. Tap the Install button. Here's a description of Ruby Blast: "Ruby has discovered an ancient dig site full of treasures! ...
The European Commission has received Google's proposal to settle an antitrust investigation into the search engine's practices, a Commission spokesman said on Friday. But one industry organization said it has filed another antitrust complaint against Google with the Commission.
January 11, 2013, 4:20 PM — Do you use Ruby on Rails? If so, it's time to update. Now. Ruby on Rails is an open source Web application framework built to use with the Ruby programming language. Ruby on Rails--or just Rails--gives Web developers the ability to gather information from W...
Developing nations, including those in Africa, are set to experience an explosion in cyber crime, as more and more of their citizens connect to the Internet and the web using smart phones high capacity 3G and 4G cellular networks. There's a great chapter from a 1981 children's book ca...
