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School’s Out.
A group of Middle School students not only used a phishing technique to gain administrator privileges to their school’s computers but actually complained when they no longer worked correctly (as a result of their escapades!) Classic.
(Source) BBC: http://goo.gl/uN60j
Celebrating Life!
The “greatness” of truly great people lies in their appreciation of the “ordinary.” – Daisaku Ikeda.
Duh!
Wow; the utter brilliance obviousness of this statement: “AT&T / Verizon duopoly would be a bad thing.”
Arguably, it already largely is… (which is a BAD thing for innovation; prices, etc. as America continues to fall further behind in another field that the nation pioneered; all in the name of profit!)
(Source) BGR: http://goo.gl/sFYRQ
No Atom Left Behind.
Amongst all of the records that IBM holds; add World’s Smallest Stop-motion Movie to the list. (Simple yet still impressive!)
(Source) CNET: http://goo.gl/tvwiO
19 Innings…
An excellent metaphor for (if that’s what it takes) never giving up!
Twitch This!
With a blink of an eye, said end-user will be able to post a tweet (via Twitter?) Yes, according to the enclosed example… which is either bogus and/or a teaser for both Google Glass as well as this (micro) Social Networking medium.
(Source) Tech Radar: http://goo.gl/x6OzU
Rural Broadband.
The next time some pundit espouses how nothing that Washington, D.C. (i.e., the Federal Government) does works, you can ask said ‘expert’ if they’ve every heard of VTel? If not, you can simply state that they offer fiber, 1GB ‘net access for $35.00 per month. Granted, the caveat is that it’s offered in Vermont; nevertheless, it does underline the point that the large Telcos are a hindrance to wider broadband adoption rates across America (versus being an active catalyst for this technology becoming ubiquitous!)
(Source) Live Dr. Jay’s: http://goo.gl/BYG6s
A Record Hack?
50 million users can’t be wrong! Wait a moment – strike that – 50 million users are in all probability not happy (as LifeSocial was hacked). That aside, again, this raises the (simple yet complex) question: there’s got to be a better way e.g., logging in sans a password.
(Source) CNET: http://goo.gl/1zIIM
2 = 1? Or, 1 = 2?
Although Google was relatively unscathed by the DOJ, EU regulators will essentially require the firm to provide less-biased / more neutral search results (which is not necessarily a bad thing for consumers and/or their competition).
(Source) Washington Post: http://goo.gl/HA7a6