As mobile devices flood the market and consumers increase their browsing time on small screens with smaller keyboards, the alphanumeric password is seeming less and less user friendly. Windows, trying to appeal to the mobile savvy user, is initiating an authentication system that is based on a picture – but with a twist. Their system [...]

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show brought us some interesting trends and ideas.   In his review of the show, Lance Ulanoff lists 9 things he’s learned there.  In the last point in that post, he makes the observation that “the marriage of technology and content took center stage”. There is a fundamental change in how we’ve [...]

Do you hear that? The sound of drip… drip… drip…? It’s the sound of money ever so gradually leaving your account through insecure transactions. There are these clever little ways to send money through text messaging – Yele does it to help humanitarian aid after the quake in Haiti. Just text “Yele” to a specific [...]