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Kim Dotcom has changed his mind about the blueprints for the 3D gun that Mega stored on its website last week.
After the U.S. State Department demanded that the designer of the world’s first fully printable gun remove the files from his network, Mega committed to keep them safe online in his offshore servers.... |
13 May 2013
01:51 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom is planning to release further privacy-centric services, such as an encrypted email service, but also an instant messaging service. Dotcom tells the New Zealand Herald that they are working on encrypted email and IM in a Q&A session. “They key to make encryption a global success is ease of use. S... |
8 May 2013
06:07 GMT |
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Mega isn't even two months old, but Kim Dotcom is already thinking about taking it public. In a job posting seeking for a Chief Financial Officer for the young company, Mega revealed that it envisioned fast growth and possibly even an IPO within the next 18 months.
"Due to some aggressive growth plans, we requi... |
5 March 2013
10:31 GMT |
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A string of good news for the Bitcoin currency has pushed its value to record heights, this after a catastrophic drop last year. Bitcoins hit $34, €26 briefly and now trade at above $32, €24.50 having doubled their value in the past couple of months.
Bitcoins hit a low of $2, €1.52 last year after a s... |
28 February 2013
12:11 GMT |
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Dotcom has made plenty of promises about Mega before the site launched and quite a few after it launched as well. One of them, that he's reiterating now, is that Mega will be platform, in fact more than a platform, a network.
Apart from an API to enable third-party apps and services to build on top of Mega, som... |
22 February 2013
09:32 GMT |
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Mega launched a month ago and, in that time, it gathered three million users, Kim Dotcom revealed. The site now hosts 125 million files he said in a tweet. He also reiterated that Mega is working on mobile and desktop clients for the service.
Three million users is not bad for a month-old site, but Mega has benefite... |
20 February 2013
04:45 GMT |
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Just last week Reddit started accepting bitcoins in its store. Now, Mega is doing the same, roughly half a bitcoin will get you one month of Mega Pro I, which comes with 500 GB of storage. For three times that, you get 4 TB of storage. Users get 50 GB for free, but anyone needing more storage space and more bandwid... |
18 February 2013
08:13 GMT |
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One of Mega's distinguishing characteristics is that, until now, it's been web-only. In fact, it's been Chrome-only, the site only works properly in Google's browser. Mega explained that some of the more advanced web technologies it uses aren't supported or don't work that well in other ... |
11 February 2013
10:41 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom’s freshly launched cloud storage service Mega released an extension for Mozilla Firefox that is supposed to improve the download performance.
The add-on is not available on Mozilla’s add-ons web site, but if you access the service with Firefox browser, you will be prompted to install the exten... |
11 February 2013
09:05 GMT |
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Mega has been available for a few weeks now, but the cloud storage service is still getting attention. A short while ago, Kim Dotcom promised to start a security vulnerability rewards program, after the site had seen quite a lot of scrutiny from security experts.
Now, Mega is reporting on the first bugs found and p... |
11 February 2013
06:01 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, Mega – the new file sharing website launched by Kim Dotcom – announced the start of a vulnerability reward program. In the report released for the first week, the company revealed that a total of 7 security holes have already been identified.
It turns out that no one has discovered class... |
11 February 2013
05:04 GMT |
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It's not much of a secret that many of the DMCA takedown requests Google receives are erroneous or plain false. With millions of them coming in, there are bound to be problems. Still, some of these request are outright ridiculous, like HBO asking for HBO.com links to be removed. In a similar vein, Warner Bros. ... |
8 February 2013
08:52 GMT |
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Mega is only a couple of weeks old, but is already boasting quite a few users. It's also boasting a new, full-time CEO with the addition of Vikram Kumar. The company was headed by Tony Lentino, who's also one of Mega's biggest investors.
Kumar comes after a stint at InternetNZ, a non-profit organizat... |
7 February 2013
08:45 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom has always said that he plans a powerful API for Mega. The API is not here yet and probably won't be for a while, but that doesn't mean there aren't developers interested in using the service.
Granted, some aren't exactly to Dotcom's liking, Mega Search for example, but others ar... |
5 February 2013
15:11 GMT |
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Bitcasa, one of the many companies offering cloud storage, is going out of a rather lengthy beta. Bitcasa's selling point is infinite storage, that is, for a fixed fee users get to upload as many files as they need. There are other companies offering cheap storage, the newly launched Mega offers 50 GB for free, ... |
5 February 2013
09:41 GMT |
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As promised, Mega has launched its vulnerability rewards program which offers cash to anyone that can break the site. Dotcom made some mentions of it, but there was little info so it was hard to tell just how serious or effective such a program would be. Mega has now explained it all in detail. Mega accepts several ... |
2 February 2013
07:51 GMT |
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One of Mega's big selling points, as least in its mind, is privacy. Files are encrypted client-side, so only someone with the encryption key can see what's inside them.
The encryption means nothing if you lose your password, but that's the compromise Mega had to make to get it all working.
It'... |
1 February 2013
07:11 GMT |
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Mega has been going strong for the two weeks since it's been around, but all of the attention doesn't necessarily focus on the positive aspects. There was some criticism on the way Mega handles files that may be infringing, deleting everything it finds, no questions asked.
This had to do with Mega-Search, ... |
1 February 2013
05:52 GMT |
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Mega has been taking big steps to ensure that the site doesn't become a haven for piracy, especially as all the world was watching for any weakness. It seems to be working, Dotcom boasted that the site only gets 50 takedown notices per day, that's for nearly 50 million files uploaded in total. Mega doesn&#... |
31 January 2013
10:39 GMT |
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So far so good, as far as Kim Dotcom is concerned. A week or so after Mega launched to a lot of fanfare and a lot of scrutiny, the site hasn't turned into a copyright infringement bonanza as some had warned (or maybe hoped).
The site is getting a lot of usage, in fact, Dotcom revealed that it now hosts some 50... |
31 January 2013
07:31 GMT |
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It's been a week since Mega launched and the site has stayed in the spotlight all that time. It came under scrutiny over its security practices and over its copyright protection policies, but so far it managed to get through. There have been some problems though, several of the companies reselling pro accounts... |
27 January 2013
14:31 GMT |
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The Mega file sharing service is growing bigger at an amazingly fast pace, but according to owner Kim Dotcom, some Microsoft users cannot register for a new account. Dotcom mentioned in a short tweet that some of those using Hotmail do not receive Mega confirmation emails, while Gmail addresses seem to work just fin... |
27 January 2013
07:14 GMT |
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You'd think that, by now, the entertainment industry would have learned not to poke a hornet's nest or, in this case, Kim Dotcom. Their great plan to strike fear into the hearts of pirates everywhere by taking down MegaUpload and Dotcom in a spectacular fashion backfired in a big way. They got MegaUpload k... |
24 January 2013
05:14 GMT |
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With Mega making such a big fuss about security and privacy, it was a given that every expert out there would be looking to see just how safe the site really was. All the scrutiny has revealed some issues and Mega has responded to some of them.
While no actual vulnerabilities or flaws have been found yet, several sm... |
23 January 2013
11:24 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom's MegaUpload revenge site, Mega, has been live for only a few days and is already very, very popular. It proved so popular that it wasn't able to cope with the initial traffic.
Those problem have mostly been solved now and Mega keeps on adding new users, to the delight of Dotcom who's brag... |
23 January 2013
09:54 GMT |
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Mega's high-profile launch was under a lot of scrutiny, for obvious reasons, with many curious to see how the fabled encryption features would work. Mega boasted client-side encryption to ensure total privacy over the uploaded files.
But Mega also made it possible to share those files and didn't require u... |
23 January 2013
05:32 GMT |
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Only a couple of days have passed since the new Mega service was officially launched and scammers are already trying to make a profit by leveraging the website’s notoriety.
GFI Labs experts have identified a YouTube video which promises a “hack” that allows users to “search and download files... |
22 January 2013
08:47 GMT |
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A few months back, when Kim Dotcom was revealing the first details of Mega, he announced that he'd be using the me.ga domain for the site. It didn't last long though as, presumably under pressure from the US, the Gabon government took away the domain. Strangely enough, the domain then became the home, or o... |
22 January 2013
05:45 GMT |
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The recently launched Mega service has caused a lot of controversy. The site is not working properly, some security issues have been identified and, even Anonymous hackers have turned their back on it, calling Kim Dotcom a snitch.
One year ago, when US authorities took down Megaupload, the Anonymous movement wa... |
22 January 2013
03:14 GMT |
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One of the more interesting things about Mega, Kim Dotcom's just launched cloud storage service, is the client-side encryption. It's been one of the most touted features at the core of the service. Yet, despite all the hype, Mega doesn't make it all that clear how its encryption works. That may or may ... |
21 January 2013
12:11 GMT |
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Barely has Mega been live for a day when people are lining up to kill it. Granted, the larger organizations, which obviously hold a very personal grudge against Dotcom, haven't made their move yet though they can't be enjoying all the attention the site has. But others wanting to share some of that attent... |
21 January 2013
09:34 GMT |
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Mega, Kim Dotcom's, of MegaUpload fame, latest venture, is live and has proved quite popular or at least interesting. It's gotten up to 500,000 registered users in 14 hours and probably ticked the 1 million registered users mark by now. All this attention is proving too much for the infrastructure which i... |
21 January 2013
06:41 GMT |
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To great fanfare, Kim Dotcom knows how to put on a show, Mega has been launched and it's now available to everyone. The service is pretty much as was promised, a web interface, client-side encryption, 50GB of storage for free and so on. However, there do seem to be some issues, caused by all the initial attenti... |
21 January 2013
03:43 GMT |
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Dotcom's Mega is almost here, everyone will be able to get it by January 20. The new cloud storage service has been in the works this past year and there's been a lot of talk about it. Now, we finally get to see if all that was warranted. Dotcom promised a lot of things with Mega, client-side encryption, p... |
19 January 2013
07:51 GMT |
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Mega, the new cloud storage service from MegaUpload's Kim Dotcom, is now live for some early users, ahead of the bigger launch tomorrow. The site also has some more info on what's available and what's coming soon but, again, that's only available to the few users that got early access.
We've... |
18 January 2013
11:36 GMT |
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With Kim Dotcom's Mega cloud storage and sharing site only a couple of days away, more details are getting out, straight from the man himself. On his popular Twitter account, Dotcom revealed that free users will get some 50 GB of storage out of the box. "#Mega will have very generous limits for free users. For... |
17 January 2013
12:31 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom's Mega is only a few days away, if the scheduled launch day, this Saturday, is kept. Dotcom wants to launch the new site on the anniversary of the raid that killed the old MegaUpload.
He's been talking about it for months, he leaked some screenshots and explained how the storage service will wo... |
16 January 2013
07:11 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom is known for many things, but being subtle isn't one of them. So there was no doubt that the launch of his upcoming storage service, Mega, won't be low key. In fact, Dotcom is promising just that, a launch event like no other, at the Dotcom mansion no less.
"Members of the media who like to be... |
28 December 2012
11:03 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom's upcoming Mega cloud storage and sharing service is becoming more "real" with each new day. The latest example is the first storage rack that's supposed to serve the new site which is going live in about a month. Dotcom revealed the photo and shared a bit of details.
The rack has 720 terabytes ... |
19 December 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Dotcom's upcoming MegaUpload revival, dubbed simply Mega is taking some small steps from being pure vaporware to something that may actually exist.
The entrepreneur has posted the first screenshots of the upcoming cloud service, showing off some of the key aspects.
The shots show the login page, the encryptio... |
8 December 2012
05:53 GMT |
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The plans to launch the new Mega service on the Me.ga domain didn’t materialize because the Gabon government wasn’t too thrilled with the idea. However, Kim Dotcom hasn’t been discouraged and now he has announced that the new site’s home will be New Zealand.
“New Zealand will be the hom... |
12 November 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom isn't doing so bad, for a man that's about to be extradited out of his adoptive country, but the US government is not one you mess with lightly. A short while ago, Dotcom had announced that his upcoming file sharing service, Mega, had gotten a very special domain name, Me.ga. Well, surprise, sur... |
7 November 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Kim Dotcom has been talking big lately. Granted, he's been talking big all his life, but it intensified after MegaUpload was busted. He's now working on Mega, a new file sharing site set to launch in January, he's also working on Megabox, a music service, and now he's said to be interested in re... |
5 November 2012
05:17 GMT |
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The new Mega, designed to replace MegaUpload and do a much better job at helping people host and share files online, is seeing the first signs of life. The site is not ready yet, it should go live sometime early in 2013, but Kim Dotcom is going ahead with the preparations and has launched a page for people to sign ... |
1 November 2012
09:58 GMT |
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The odds and the law may be against it, but Kim Dotcom is determined to have Mega, the new file sharing/hosting site, up and running soon enough.
Granted, it's all been promises and hype so far, but Dotcom promises the new site will be ready and will launch on the exact same day that MegaUpload was raided and ... |
26 October 2012
10:55 GMT |
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While Kim Dotcom and co. are still stuck in New Zealand waiting for their extradition hearing, authorities in the US are doing the best they can to block any kind of defense MegaUpload might put up.
Not only that, US prosecutors warn that Dotcom shouldn't be able to restart MegaUpload or any similar company un... |
26 October 2012
05:43 GMT |
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The new Mega is close to becoming a reality. While Kim Dotcom is still fighting for the first MegaUpload and that case will take a few years to reach a conclusion, the entrepreneur has been working on a new service for the past few months.
This new site will focus on file hosting as well, but it's not an exact... |
18 October 2012
12:10 GMT |
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It's no secret that Kim Dotcom is working on what he calls the new "Mega," despite the mainstream media only now picking it up.
He's been teasing a new site for several weeks now and, though he's provided no details so far, he says the code is "90 percent done" and that the new site is only a few wee... |
11 October 2012
15:11 GMT |
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