Must include at least one number. Must be longer than six characters. Cannot have more than four sequential characters from your previous seven passwords. The rules for password creation vary wildly from site to site, an effort to protect users from those who would hack their identities.
These protective measures don't go very far, according to the New York Times, because hackers can get ahold of passwords with software that remotely tracks keystrokes, or by tricking users into typing them in.
Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the new fourth-generation iPod touch: it's so much like an iPhone that it has a Phone app (wait, what?). Better yet, if you do a Spotlight search on it, it'll return results from a messaging app it's not supposed to have. How's that for value? This would all be a great big enigmatic mystery if we weren't ourselves familiar with the practice (and pitfalls) of splicing disparate images into unholy creations. Well, at least now Microsoft isn't alone in making self-
The new iPod Touch – with Facetime, multitasking, and the Retina display – is so close to an iPhone that even Apple can sometimes get confused.Case in point: look at this image of iPod Touch from Apple’s site, and you’ll notice it has a Phone app icon, which definitely doesn’t belong there. To see the real icon layout on an iPod Touch, check out this page.We’d call it an honest mistake (and a case of lazy Photoshopping), but given how much attention Apple̵
If you work as part of an in-house Web team, you have my sympathy. If that in-house team is within a large organization, then doubly so. Being part of an in-house Web team sucks. Trust me, I know. I worked at IBM for three years and now spend most of my days working alongside battle-weary internal teams.Web designer trying to hang himself.It’s hardly surprising that most in-house teams are worn down and depressed. They face almost insurmountable challenges:Departmental feuds
paulelaguna writes "The dream of owning a household robot is starting to become reality, particularly for people in Japan. There are robots to help you do the dishes, move furniture, and even robotic wheelchairs to help you get around. Really, the only question that remains for us is when do we move?" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
It's a chicken-and-egg problem that's concerned biologists for decades: how did the basic biochemicals of life appear before the biological catalysts needed to form them had come into existence?
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A trusted source has confirmed that French-blogging platform, Overblog, will soon be part of the Wikio family. Rumor has it that the growing Luxembourg-based news portal is apparently trying to develop European Google News for blogs.
For anyone who isn't familiar with Wikio, all you really have to know is that it's a news portal founded by Pierre Chappaz in 2005 after his previous company, Kelkoo, was acquired by Yahoo in 2004 for some 475 million euros. For acquisitions à la Française, that'
Last week's MBA Mondays post on What A CEO Does was a huge hit. Matt Blumberg, who is one of the finest CEO's I've had the pleasure of working with, wrote a follow-up post on the topic for his blog. I asked him if I could run it as a guest post here on MBA Mondays and he agreed.
So, here's a bit more on What A CEO Does:
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What Does a CEO Do, Anyway?
Fred has a great post up last week in his MBA Mondays series caled “What a CEO Does.“ His three things are set vision/strategy and comm
(Editor’s note: Curtis Smolar is a partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)
Starting your business is an exciting time – one that’s full of new beginnings and endless possibilities. As you focus on the big picture, it’s easy to ignore the minutiae of organizing your company. But those details matter – and ignoring them can be hazardous to your company’s health. In some cases, it can be fatal.
There are plenty of pitfalls startups can
The entire future of a company or industry can hinge on one little deal. The $50,000 IBM paid to license Windows was the foundation for Microsoft and the technology industry for the last couple of decades. Apple's licensing contract with Portal Player to create the iPod was nearly as big -- and certainly huge for that company. The sale of 3Par could also be one of those pivotal deals, as huge firms like HP, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Dell, VMware, Cisco and EMC position themselves around the
