An AP report on a survey conducted by Accenture indicate that the overwhelming majority of Internet users use a single username/password combination for the majority, if not all, of the websites they visit. The problem with this is obvious, if…
Other countries culture and humour can be hard to understand. Any of you that have been to Japan or seen any Japanese TV will know that that it can deliver equal measures of genius, bizarre and funny. Network World has…
Gizmodo is reporting on a new battery under development that while based on Lithium technology does not have the same (admittedly minor) risk of exploding that the current batteries have. At the moment it is a ways off from hitting…
Yahoo has publicly knocked back the offer by Microsoft. The tone of their rebuttal suggests that they may now be resigned to an eventual MS buyout and are now just looking for the best price, but I still wonder how…
While it is a bit of a slow news week, the addition of chat functionality to facebook seems to be getting a lot of interest. Is this really a functionality that is particularly life changing? There is some good use…
If you haven’t seen the Danger Room blog at Wired yet, it mainly focuses on what is new in National security issues. While it does post about some serious topics it also has a fantastic series on how to survive…
An interesting litttle app that will give a measure of how secure your password is. One extra that others like this have not offered before is the ability to download an offline version so you don’t have to enter your…