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Emoji could be used for your next PIN

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The humble PIN is a common way to secure access to accounts, but it has one major problem -- it is, usually, limited to using the digits 0-9. A UK firm thinks it may have come up with a better solution: emoji-based PINs. Intelligent Environments' Emoji Passcode system can be used to secure accounts with ideograms. The company argues that Emoji passcodes are not only easier to remember that number-based alternatives, but also more secure.

Awesome and getting ready for xPotomac 15 this June 12.

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 xPotomac 15 is being held on this June 12. and I have enjoyed attending  this event very muchThere is a good line up of speakers and t he  keynote this year is author Mark W. Schaefer, who just released The Content Code, which highlights how the marketing world has gone mad.  In his new book, Mark challenges communicators to break through information density by thinking about audiences in a new way.xPotomac will be at Georgetown University Campus,the Healey Family Student Center, which includes an in-building parking garage.

Urs Hölzle, Google's 8th employee and tech guru, explains why it can win the cloud war against Amazon and Microsoft

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Urs Hölzle was Google's eighth employee.  When he was hired in 1999, his job was to keep one of the fastest-growing sites on the Internet from crashing and burning. It was a crazy time, and the only way to survive was to keep throwing more physical servers at the problem. "We were growing at something like ten percent week after week, so every Monday was a new traffic record," he told Business Insider. "If you just barely made it or if you melted down last week and next week is going to be ten percent bigger, that's going to be what you focus on."  He barely took a breath until 2003.

Google: Cloud on verge of major transformation

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Something big is up in the cloud. Google’s Senior Vice President for Technical Infrastructure Urs Hölzle says in five years you will barely be able to recognize what today’s cloud looks like.+ MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: IDC’s state of the network at Interop: Change or be left behind | Hottest products from Interop 2015 +Google+ Here’s the example Hölzle gives: Think about what a “smart” phone looked like in 2007 before the first iPhone was released. Now, compare that to smartphones of today.

Windows 10 is undeniably impressive, but can it win you over?

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I was sold on Windows 10 before I could even try the first Technical Preview. Now, after seeing the latest slew of changes unveiled at Build 2015, it is clearer than ever that Microsoft is on the right path and that Windows 10 will be the most impressive release yet. There is no doubt in my mind about it. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Microsoft expects Windows 10 to attract one billion users within the first two to three years of its release. The timer starts this summer. It may sound like an empty claim, but when you… [Continue Reading]

Container wars: Microsoft debuts its Windows-based answer to Kubernetes

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Hot on the heels of revealing how it’s planning to integrate containers into Windows, Microsoft Corp. has pulled the curtains back on a complementary clustering system meant to simplify the deployment of applications that use the lightweight virtualization technology. In … Continue reading →

Look how similar red-hot Chinese startup Xiaomi's products are to Apple's designs (AAPL)

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Xiaomi is one of the hottest smartphone companies out there. Just five years old, it has rapidly grown to become the world's most valuable tech startup, worth about $46 billion (£30.9 billion), which is more than Uber, Snapchat, or SpaceX. Xiaomi, founded by CEO Lei Jun, is often referred to as the "Apple of China," not least because of the famed devotion of its fans. The company holds worldwide flash sales for its customers and throws them parties in expensive nightclubs — and they love the company for it. But Xiaomi is like Apple in another way.

Cool Storage Vendors in 2015 – Gartner

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Gartner Inc. has published this report, Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2015, last April 9. SummaryEmerging storage vendors offer data center managers and storage administrators new antidotes for their storage challenges. This research details five companies that provide innovative storage capabilities via new architecture and deployment methods, and looks back at two past Cool Vendors. […]

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