Imagine a web where our browsers connected directly to each other to do voice, video, media sharing and run applications, using P2P and real-time APIs, rather than going through centralized servers that controlled traffic and...[more]
Do you need antivirus software on your PC? If you're not sure of the answer to that question, then the short answer is yes. The longer answer is that security software is only one piece of what should be a simple,...[more]
The next time you go wireless in a mall or coffeeshop, watch your back. Eric Butler, a US-based freelance web application and software developer, has just released an application on his blog called "Firesheep" that...[more]
Everyone calls while he's watching a film that it's unbelievable or unrealistic. Sometimes that is annoying, other times funny. As an IT-prof you know how good hacking or other computer art should look like. But there are many...[more]
South Korea's SK Telecom has made it possible to set both Android, a processor and 1GB of flash memory on a SIM card..The intention of this experiment was, to give users the ability to take easily all their personal data to a new...[more]
Today I read an interesting article on a Dutch usability blog about Persuasion Technology and the use of "Augmented Reality". Argument Reality is a method to change people their attitude...[more]
One of my friends gets away from the office twice a year for what he calls his "think week." He isolates himself from people, phone calls, and e-mail, and he devotes this time to reading. He ponders the state...[more]
If you take a look around your Windows hard drive, you probably have noticed that a good number of operating system files hang out in the root directory of the boot drive. If you take a closer look at those files, you...[more]
Microsoft is offering its new Windows OneCare Live security service at an irresistible low price. So why isn’t it free?[more]
I’ve been writing a lot about the flaws in the commercial security software business lately. Today, Joe Wilcox at Microsoft Monitor inadvertently provided an excellent illustration of why this industry is so fundamentally flawed....[more]
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