Frog’s Robert Fabricant breaks down the themes from the 2011 Interaction Design Awards. “Technologies like cheap sensors and cloud computing are increasingly being used to augment our daily lives in both magical and mundane ways. Everything we do is an app in the making (a million and counting). But in this environment we are also […]
Five lessons from the best interaction designs of 2011
22 December 2011 by
The Internet gets physical
22 December 2011 by
NY Times technology reporter Steve Lohr writes on how consumer-based Internet technologies are morphing into new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health care, traffic management and food distribution. Low-cost sensors, clever software and advancing computer firepower are opening the door to new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health care and food distribution. The consumer Internet […]
Incredibly, HR 2577 has NO definition of Personal Data. How can you defend something if you don’t know what it is???
15 December 2011 by
Incredibly, HR 2577 has NO definition of Personal Data. How can you defend something if you don’t know what it is???
Google Wallet Leaves Sensitive Info Unencrypted
15 December 2011 by
Sara Yin reports: Yesterday, a security researcher discovered that Google Wallet, a groundbreaking app that lets you store and process credit cards with a simple tap of the phone, stores unencrypted pretty much everything except your credit card numbers and CVV numbers. Think credit card limits, transaction times, names, addresses, PIN numbers– all ripe for the taking. A black […]