ΚΤ: Επικίνδυνη η χρήση Bitcoin

Ιδιαίτερα επικίνδυνη χαρακτηρίζει η Κεντρική Τράπεζα της Κύπρου τη χρήση του εικονικού νομίσματος Bitcoin, λίγες μέρες μετά την ανακοίνωση ιδιωτικού πανεπιστημίου ότι το αποδέχεται ως μέσο πληρωμής διδάκτρων. 

Σε γραπτή απάντηση στο κυπριακό πρακτορείο ειδήσεων η Κεντρική αναφέρει ότι «θεωρεί τη χρήση οποιασδήποτε μορφής εικονικού χρήματος (virtual money) ως ιδιαίτερα επικίνδυνη δεδομένου ότι δεν βρίσκονται κάτω από οποιαδήποτε ρύθμιση και λειτουργούν ανεξέλεγκτα»...

Apple's '12 Days of Gifts' App for 2013 Now Live, Includes U.S. Customers

Apple today released its annual "12 Days of Gifts" app for iOS devices, setting the stage for the actual giveaway of free content from the company's various digital stores from December 26 through January 6...

FDA approves breakthrough drug for treatment of hepatitis C

Two years ago, the pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences paid eleven billion dollars for Pharmasset, a small biotechnology firm based in New Jersey. 

Pharmasset did not have a single major drug on the market, but the company had developed a drug called...

Αυξήθηκε η βιομηχανική παραγωγή της Κίνας

Κατά 10% αυξήθηκε το Νοέμβριο η βιομηχανική παραγωγή της Κίνας, σύμφωνα με τα στοιχεία που δημοσιοποίησε την Τρίτη η Εθνική Υπηρεσία Στατιστικής της χώρας. Ο δείκτης μετρά την παραγωγή στα εργοστάσια, στα εργαστήρια και στα ορυχεία...

Apple, Google and others demand NSA spying reform

Eight tech giants have joined forces demanding NSA reform in a “Global Government Surveillance Reform” campaign, including AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo, The Hill reports. 

The companies have expressed their requests in an open letter to Obama and...

Life On Mars? Curiosity Finds Evidence Of Ancient Lake, Possibly Hospitable To Microbes

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered evidence of what looks like an ancient Martian lake that might have supported life.

Close examination of sedimentary rock at a site called Yellowknife Bay, a 16-foot-deep trough in the 93-mile-wide Gale Crater near the Martian equator, shows signs that the area once harbored a lake...

Eurogroup: Άναψε το πράσινο φως για έγκριση της τρίτης δόσης

Το Eurogroup ενέκρινε το βράδυ της Δευτέρας το πλάνο ιδιωτικοποιήσεων της κυπριακής κυβέρνησης και άναψε το πράσινο φως για έγκριση της τρίτης δόσης, σύμφωνα με τον υπουργό οικονομικών Χάρη Γεωργιάδη. 

To Eurogroup ενέκρινε την επόμενη δόση συγχαίροντας τις κυπριακές αρχές για την πρόοδο που έχει επιτευχθεί και σημειώνει με διακριτικό τρόπο την ανάγκη να ενισχυθεί το πλάνο...

Liberty Life: Αναστολή νέων ασφαλιστικών συμβολαίων ζωής

Αναστέλλει τις εργασίες της για εξασφάλιση νέων ασφαλιστικών συμβολαίων στον κλάδο ζωής η ασφαλιστική εταιρεία Liberty Life...

Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 7 vs Google Nexus 7 (2013) vs Tesco Hudl vs Apple iPad Mini 2: in depth

The 7-8in tablet bracket has become one of the most hard-fought markets in tech, with everyone and his uncle releasing a 'small' tablet.

With the Kindle Fire HDX 7, Amazon is the latest company to release a model this year – so how does it match up to its main rivals?...

Τρόικα: Ούτε σεντ για στήριξη των Κ.Α.

Δικαίωμα «βέτο» αποκτά η Τρόικα αναφορικά με το ζήτημα στήριξης των Κυπριακών Αερογραμμών, μέσω παροχής κρατικών ενισχύσεων, στο πλαίσιο τροποποιήσεων του Μνημονίου και σύμφωνα με πληροφορίες του «Φ», έχει ξεκαθαρίσει ότι δεν ευνοεί την παραχώρηση «ούτε ενός σεντ» προς τον κρατικό...

The Siri trivia challenge: how many of these 50 things did you know Siri could do? (video)

PhoneBuff has put together an interesting video showcasing fifty things Siri can do now, and we think there’s a pretty high chance you won’t be aware of all of them. It’s getting on for eight minutes long, but well worth a look if you want to make sure you’re getting the most out of Apple’s virtual assistant...

Razer to join PowerA and Logitech in the iPhone game controller battle

Gaming specialist Razer is joining MOGA and Logitech in launching a game controller for the iPhone after Apple created an MFI program to licence...

Get a refund if the price drops on an item you bought on Amazon

Have you ever purchased an item from Amazon only to notice a short while later that its priced has dropped? If so, then you might be interested in an unpublished policy that Reddit user poorsoi has uncovered...

Moody’s: Αναβάθμιση ελληνικών τραπεζών

Θετικές αξιολογήσεις για τις ελληνικές τράπεζες ανακοίνωσε σήμερα ο οίκος πιστοληπτικής αξιολόγησης Moody’s. 

Αναβάθμισε τις διαβαθμίσεις για μακροπρόθεσμες καταθέσεις και για πρωτοβάθμιο χρέος της Πειραιώς, της...

Brazil World Cup 2014: Final Draw reveals intriguing groups

Spain, the Netherlands, Chile and Australia will make up the proverbial ‘group of death’ at the 20th FIFA World Cup™, while Uruguay, Italy, England and Costa Rica will comprise another intriguing pool...

Apple begins using iBeacons at all its 254 US retail stores

Apple on Friday will launch its iBeacon wireless short-range technology at all 254 retail stores the company owns across the U.S., helping customers to shop for new items, or pick up an order they've already placed...

Now, download all your Gmail and Google Calendar data

This is big news for Google users. The Internet giant has announced that you will now be able to download your data from Gmail and Google Calendar. The long overdue feature will grant you access to your data, making it easy for you to back it up, use offline or shift to another service...

The best social media service for businesses? Instagram

Marketing analytics service SumAll has released a year-end report that characterizes Instagram as the most effective social network for companies looking for subscriber growth, engagement and a sales boost. Though Instagram recently opened up for advertising, SumAll’s figures relate to unpaid and organic Instagram traffic...

Android torch app with over 50m downloads silently sent user location and device data to advertisers

An innocuous-looking torch app for Android that has been downloaded more than 50m times silently shared users' locations and device IDs with advertisers, the company has admitted.

In a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the maker of Brightest Flashlight Free admitted that the app's privacy policy "deceptively failed to disclose" that it was passing on location and device ID data to networks of advertisers...

South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies

South Africa's first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has died, South Africa's president says...

Apple's 'smart dock' would give Siri a permanent place in the home

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday published an Apple patent application detailing a full-function "smart dock" that continually listens for cues to activate and communicate with the voice recognition functions of docked devices, like the iPhone and iPad...

Google starts rolling out Android 4.4.1 with camera fixes for the Nexus 5

Google today announced it has started rolling out Android 4.4.1 for the Nexus 5. The update is meant to improve the camera on the company’s latest flagship device...

Amazon’s Grocery Delivery Service, AmazonFresh, May Launch In SF Next Week

According to ATD, Amazon may be ready to announce the San Francisco launch of AmazonFresh, the online retailer’s grocery delivery service, on December 10.

As it stands now, Amazon is...

Here Are The 25 Worst Passwords You Can Use

Two recent events illustrate that most people do not protect their data very well online. 

On October 4, Adobe reported that its systems had been penetrated by attackers who  stole 38 million user accounts and passwords.

BBC reports that "123456" was the most popular password among the Adobe users whose details were stolen. About 1.9 million people used the sequence...

'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' Trailer: Destruction and Electro (video trailer)

Andrew Garfield is back slinging webs, punishing evildoers and suffering just the right amount of superhero angst in the first official trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the follow-up to last year's franchise reboot. 

The trailer opens with Peter Parker pondering power and responsibility, while Spidey zips through the city catching cop cars and dodging machine gun bullet fire — just a little "traffic jam" he casually tells Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone)...