Your Smartphone Could Be Your Most Dangerous Possession

Our increasing reliance on Smartphones is making them more dangerous – we’re carrying passwords, credit card information, personal financial information, private information about our friends and family and more around with us in a box the size of a deck of cards.  And theives can easily extract this information from the majority of lost/stolen Smartphones– [...]

Deferred IT Maintenance: A Ticking Time Bomb

Here’s an article about the “ballooning IT maintenance debt” and what impact it’ll likely have on US companies. http://infoworld.com/t/it-management/what-you-missed-deferred-it-maintenance-ticking-time-bomb-898 Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d261′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

Human PAC-MAN Performance by Guillaume Reymond

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100 Million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site.

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/7/28/100-million-facebook-pages-leaked-torrent-site/ Commentary: There are no guarantees that anything you put online will remain private or secure.  Ever. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d248′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

Thousands of online bank accounts wiped out by virus, negligent end-users.

‘In the vast majority of cases, if people had kept their computer’s operating systems and software such as Internet Explorer up to date they would not have been attacked,’ http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2010/08/11/thousands-of-online-bank-accounts-wiped-out-by-virus-negligent-end-users/ Commentary: Keep your computers up-to-date!  Keep your antivirus up-to-date!  Don’t use Internet Explorer! Or let us do all of this for you! Bookmark It Hide [...]

BDPCam!

We’e installed a webcam at the new office with up-to-the-minute views of downtown Seattle. Check it out: http://www.bdpnetworks.com/BDPCam1.jpg Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d238′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

Dell sold faulty computers – then *lied* about it.

Will they ever recover from this breach of trust with their customers? Bill Snyder from InfoWorld explains… http://infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/the-ignominious-death-dell-882 Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d233′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

iPhone 4: Retinal Display Geekery

Were you also a bit skeptical when Steve Jobs said “the display on the iPhone 4 is a higher resolution than what can be perceived by the human eye?” Read more here… http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/2010/06/apple-retina-display/ Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d231′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

Volkswagen installs slide alongside subway station escalator…

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Google adopts background images, ala Bing!

It appears that Google now supports background images, just like Bing. This raises some questions… a) doesn’t that look like oil-tainted swampland, perhaps a retort to the fact that BP bought a whole bunch of AdWords on Google and Bing to try to do damage control? b) isn’t Bing turning one this week? c) I [...]