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Archive for January 2010
Less than Rock-solid passwords
RockYou suffered one of the worst data leaks of the year last year with some 32m accounts hacked through its lax security policies. A study of the passwords showed many users were just as lax – the top 5, in order, were: ‘123456’; ‘12345’; ‘123456789’; ‘Password’; and finally the rather heart-warming ‘iloveyou’. If you recognise … Continue reading
Mobile web devices to overtake PCs
According to Gartner’s latest set of predictions, by 2013 more people will be able to access the web from mobile phones than from PCs. The company reckons that there will be 1.78 billion PCs in use that year, outstripped by the 1.82 billion install base of Smartphones and browser-equipped feature phones. With the user experience … Continue reading
Nexus no iPhone ‘killer’
As Apple passed another milestone in mobile with 3 billion app downloads, Google stepped up its competition in the Smartphone market with the launch of its Nexus One phone. Obviously, this uses Google’s Android operating system, also in use on an increasing number of handsets, including the much hyped Droid phone from Motorola. The phone … Continue reading
