Sara Alotaibi, a Masters degree owner in Web Technology at the University’s School of Electronics and Computer Science, at the University of Southampton, had a brilliant idea: developing a new service that would make it possible for users to have multiple online accounts, using a scan of their fingerprint inste... |
15 December 2010
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The rapidly growing social platform of Twitter will unlock all usernames that have not been active for some time now. Due to its great popularity, it is only understandable that more and more people want a piece of its action, in other words will make an account using the username that best suits their preferences. A... |
23 January 2010
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System administrators and computer security experts keep reminding users that they should use strong passwords and change them regularly. Unfortunately, strong passwords are usually complicated and hard to remember, therefore prone to be forgotten or misused. Even if you do manage to remember one or two complicated p... |
22 October 2009
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Facebook created somewhat of a mass hysteria when it introduced vanity URLs earlier this year. Millions flocked to secure their usernames and Facebook got a lot of praise and attention for introducing the feature, despite the fact that MySpace and even Twitter had the same functionality from the get-go. Now that ever... |
21 September 2009
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There is nothing a user hates more than long registration forms and complicated login systems. We sure are glad that Facebook relinquished both of them by taking another step towards a more user-friendly interface. From now on, Facebook users will be able to log in using just their username. For those who do not hav... |
18 September 2009
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There are a lot of users out there who registered for certain Gmail accounts using dots in the usernames. Somehow like softpedia.news at gmail.com, just because the user who registered it thought it looks prettier than softpedianews at gmail.com. However, an interesting aspect of the Google mail service, revealed by ... |
16 May 2008
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A new worm has been spotted in the wild and, as far I can see, all the addicted gamers out there are vulnerable unless they got their computers protected. Security vendor Trend Micro writes that WORM_LEGMIR.FU affects most versions of the Microsoft operating system, including Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Server 2... |
9 January 2008
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Availability for your desired username is always a difficult thing to find so many people turn to the randomized name suggestion, not caring or simply because it actually returned something perhaps better than the original idea (not that it's very likely, but still)Every mail service from every company on the m... |
3 January 2008
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