NatWest, my bank here in good ole England has seen fit to beef up security for some aspects of internet banking by moving to Strong Authentication. Unfortunately, they haven’t seemed to have done the PR on this move as well as hoped. Most of the reaction I’ve read on the net so far has been … [Read more…]
I was thinking about another post I’ve wanted to write about switching from a paper planner (diary for the Brits) to an electronic one. One of the few interactions in which paper calendars tend to come out ahead of electronic calendars is entering an appointment. Mobile devices just don’t have text entry interfaces that can … [Read more…]
I’m often confused, and usually amused when people say they don’t have and don’t want a mobile phone. My mom is one of these people, but I’m not confused by her reasoning. It seems a bit dismissive to say, but really, she doesn’t get out much. I don’t mean this in a she’s-out-of-touch-with-the-world way, she … [Read more…]
I remember being really excited about a feature on my very first PDA (a Sony CLIÉ PEG-s320): the ability to transfer contacts wirelessly to another Palm OS device. It worked over the IR port at the top of the unit, and with a single gesture, a long stroke from the “Graffiti” area to the top … [Read more…]