XOXCO – Is it time for password-less login?
XOXCO – Is it time for password-less login?: “I think an even better solution would be to remove the password completely, allowing users to login with only an email address. Each time a user...
Monthly Archive: July 2012
Mom Charged With Hacking School Computers to Change Children’s Grades – ABC News
Mom Charged With Hacking School Computers to Change Children’s Grades – ABC News: She has been accused of changing her daughter’s failing grade from an F to an M for “medical” in June 2010,...
Closed for Business
Closed for Business: A price-tag of one dollar is passive smoking. You’re killing people around you, for your own short-term benefit. (Via Matt Legend Gemmell) Love that line. App store bonanzas are rare, and...
Google snatches up Sparrow team to work on Gmail | Internet & Media – CNET News
Google snatches up Sparrow team to work on Gmail | Internet & Media – CNET News: “Leca says that the company will continue to make Sparrow available, and keep it up and running with...
Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps: setting the web free of the browser
Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps: setting the web free of the browser: Making web applications behave like their desktop counterparts improves the user experience dramatically; it’s faster and it reduces the proliferation of browser tabs...
A future full-time job
A future full-time job: Realistically, nobody has job security. It’s a myth. Even CEOs don’t have job security (see HP or eBay), except Steve Ballmer, who seems curiously immune to losing his job. (Via...
Software Inventory — Feature backlogs
Software Inventory: Every product attracts new feature ideas, and you can’t implement ideas as fast as you can think them up, so you write them down, and this list is called the feature backlog....
Apple is Limiting the New Google Chrome for iOS. – (by @baekdal)
Apple is Limiting the New Google Chrome for iOS. – (by @baekdal): Apple wants control and force people to create native apps, and are thus limiting the performance of web apps in third party...
Cisco provides a lesson: why closed source pwns you
Cisco provides a lesson: This is why anyone who makes excuses for closed source in network-facing software is not just a fool deluded by shiny marketing but a malignant idiot whose complicity with what those...
The Case For A 7″ iPod
The Case For A 7″ iPod: The more I think about it, the more I think these rumors are right, but we’ve all been interpreting them the wrong way. The new 7″ iOS device...