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New Features | eyeOS – Cloud Computing – Web Desktop – Cloud Desktop That said, this is not a new application or add-on: once you are in eyeOS, you have already joined the conversation. The wall made it to the top menu and now it has a spot next to the projects menu. You will find two options: Feed and My Wall. In essence, we want to bring social networking to enterprises. Still not convinced? A study in 2011 estimated that email usage costs an average of between £5,000 and £10,000 per employee. Click to pop up.
What Hit Earth 1,200 Years Ago? Japanese scientists studying tree rings data found something strange: 1,200 years ago an extremely intense burst of high-energy radiation of unknown origin hit planet Earth. The radiation burst, which seems to have hit between ad 774 and ad 775, was detected by looking at the amounts of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in tree rings that formed during the ad 775 growing season in the Northern Hemisphere. The increase in 14C levels is so clear that the scientists, led by Fusa Miyake, a cosmic-ray physicist from Nagoya University in Japan, conclude that the atmospheric level of 14C must have jumped by 1.2% over the course of no longer than a year, about 20 times more than the normal rate of variation. But what happened, exactly? The only known events that can produce a 14C spike are floods of gamma-rays from supernova explosions or proton storms from giant solar flares. Link
Automated Submission to Social Media Sites | OnlyWire The Latest on the Facebook Phone Though I recently diagnosed rumors of a Facebook phone as “overblown,” it appears I was mistaken. Nick Bilton of the New York Times this week reported on Facebook’s interest in entering the hardware business–and the rest of the tech press has piled on saying what a terrible idea it is. Bilton says that Facebook employees “as well as people briefed on Facebook’s plans” say a smart phone from Facebook could be released “by next year.” Reportedly, Facebook has already hired six or so ex-Apple folk who worked on the iPhone, both on the hardware and software side, as well as one person who worked on the iPad. Facebook has been reported to try its hand at the smart phone business time and again. Back in 2010, Facebook gave it a shot, only to find it was too difficult. Why would Facebook want a phone to begin with? But would owning and making its own phone necessarily be the best way for Facebook to go about this?
VUVOX - slideshows, photo, video and music sharing, Myspace codes Weak Passwords Remain Epidemic, Says Cambridge Researcher The use of weak and insecure passwords remains a key security vulnerability for every country in the world, say researchers. A report from Cambridge University Computer Laboratory has found that users continue to utilise easily-guessed passwords, with young users particularly careless with their password selection. Utilising data collected from past data breaches and mass account thefts including a 2009 breach at Yahoo, researcher Joseph Bonneau noted that bad behaviour exists in every region on the web, and users are continuing to pick weak passwords for high-value accounts. While certain countries such as Germany and Korea have been found to have slightly lower rates of vulnerable passwords, Bonneau noted that trends held up overall. "Factors increasing security motivation like registering a payment card only seem to nudge users away from the weakest passwords, and a limited natural experiment on actively encouraging stronger passwords seems to have made little difference."
Free Web Toolbar Mosquitoes fly in rain thanks to low mass The mosquito is possibly summer's biggest nuisance. Sprays, pesticides, citronella candles, bug zappers -- nothing seems to totally deter the blood-sucking insect. And neither can rain apparently. Even though a single raindrop can weigh 50 times more than a mosquito, the insect is still able to fly through a downpour. Georgia Tech researchers used high-speed videography to determine how this is possible. The research team, led by Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering David Hu and his doctoral student Andrew Dickerson, found that mosquitoes receive low impact forces from raindrops because the mass of mosquitoes causes raindrops to lose little momentum upon impact. "The most surprising part of this project was seeing the robustness this small flyer has in the rain," Dickerson said. To study how mosquitoes fly in the rain, the research team constructed a flight arena consisting of a small acrylic cage covered with mesh to contain the mosquitoes but permit entry of water drops.
Web.AppStorm | Web Applications Reviewed, Rounded Up & Explained Malcolm Gladwell on entrepreneurship: history will remember Bill Gates, forget Steve Jobs The two great icons of our industry, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, came up in a talk given by Malcolm Gladwell recently at the Toronto Public Library. In discussing capitalism and entrepreneurship, Gladwell makes the point that amorality — i.e. the absence of a moral compass in making business decisions — is a fundamental prerequisite for being a successful business leader. He considers the entirety of Bill Gates' tenure as Microsoft chief to be that of "the most ruthless capitalist," which is not too dissimilar from his analysis of Steve Jobs' leadership. The difference, says Gladwell, is that Gates turned away from that amoral (note, not immoral) behavior after retiring and took up the task of spending his wealth on philanthropic projects. It's for his latter work, not for how much money Gates made with Microsoft, that Gladwell expects him to be remembered some 50 years from now.