Kim Dotcom is once again making headlines, but not over his controversial Mega website. Rather, Dotcom claims he invented two-factor authentication. He has promised to not sue companies using the technology; namely Google, Facebook and Twitter, but only in exchange for…
Posted February 18, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom recently announced via Twitter that the ambitious successor to MegaUpload is now accepting Bitcoin as payment. Members can purchase cloud storage space using the virtual currency through Bitvoucher.
Posted January 18, 2013, 2:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Industry News
Kim Dotcom's new venture Mega is set to go live tomorrow. The cloud storage service will take on the likes of Dropbox, Google Drive and others by offering each user 50GB of free storage alongside three optional paid tiers at…
Posted November 12, 2012, 12:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
After Kim Dotcom was denied the possibility of resurrecting MegaUpload as Me.ga, the controversial figure blasted the U.S. and Vivendi for their opposing views and global reach. Dotcom added that Mega was well-prepared for this contingency however, with a number of…
Posted November 6, 2012, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom is hoping to revive a two year old undersea broadband cable project that stalled out earlier this year due to insufficient funding. Pacific Fibre intended to lay 6,500 miles worth of cable between Australia, New Zealand…
Posted November 1, 2012, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
Kim Dotcom and friends are making good on their promise to revive MegaUpload. The popular file sharing destination was abruptly shut down by U.S. officials earlier this year and Kim Dotcom's New Zealand mansion raided by American and New Zealand…
Posted October 18, 2012, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
The Pirate Bay recently announced plans to move content away from their servers and into the cloud. It’s a change they say will help protect them from attacks and make them virtually impervious to court-ordered server raids.
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