A new US study conducted found that out of the 28,000 passwords recently stolen from a popular US website people often do the easy thing. 16 percent took a first name as a password. 14 percent relied on combination's such as "1234" or "12345678."Five percent were names of television shows or stars.Four percent accounted for The word "password"
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The protest campaign is encouraging New Zealand users of social media to black out their images this week in protest at section 92a of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act. The campaign has been launched by the Creative Freedom Foundation NZ.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $12.5 million to support 20 projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The goal is to Supply 20 million unbanked people with mobile financial services by 2012. The Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) will work with mobile operators, banks, finance institutions, government to encourage affordable mobile financial services to the unbanked.
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YouNoodle sophisticated model analyzes information on start ups before they get funding to help predict their outcomes. The model is based on rigorous quantitative analysis of historical data and the application of the latest relevant theory.
The model focuses on the team (backgrounds, education, dynamics between team members), advisors (backgrounds, track record), financial factors, and company concept.
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Mike Butcher from techCrunch UK had a video interview with Travis Katz, international head of MySpace at Mobile World Congress to get his views about MySpace mobile traffic. Check out the Video
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CEO Greg Yardley of Pinch Media in a recent presentation shows the drop-off rate in iPhone app usage. For free applications, only about 20 percent of users return to use the app the first day after they download it. The chart for paid apps shows a slightly steeper fall-off rate. The Presentation has been embedded below for you to view.
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Robin Wauters posted on Techcruch how TinyChat enables people to create web based chat by generating a unique URL that can be shared with anyone you choose to invite to chat with.
Instant chat rooms are starting to become pretty popular on micro-sharing service like Twitter. The service was created by Daniel Blake from Tinychat. Daniel Blake has also created services such as ControlC and Continue Reading
Kerpoof, that launched at 2007's TechCrunch 40, has been acquired by Disney. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.The company's technology is primarily image-based with little instruction needed thus making it simpler for Kids
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A visual web-based application editor that allowed users to develop enterprise applications, has closed its doors. The company attributes its closing to the dire economic situation, and says that users will be able to access and download their data through April 30, 2009.
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Bearingpoint one of the world's leading IT and management consultancies has filed for protective bankruptcy in the US.
Formed from KPMG Consulting in 2001, management say their work will continue as normal while the restructuring takes place. Source Continue Reading
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