According to this article, there is a place for strong passwords, your bank accounts being a good example, and there is a place for lousy passwords, that chat room that doesn’t connect to anything meaningful. But, sometimes it’s hard to tell what connects to other sites.

iPads, unlike Kindles, have full color displays. This leads them to push color-filled books, such as children’s stories and art books, leaving Amazon behind.

Userful lets you turn a Universal USB Docking Station with DisplayLink USB virtual graphics inside into an additional computer station. Userful is offering existing DisplayLink technology-enabled USB docking station customers a free two-user version of MultiSeat Linux 2011 software.

Openmoko’s WikiReader can now display the contents of Project Gutenberg, the oldest digital library. The entire library has been compressed to fit on a microSD card that can be inserted into the WikiReader.

Time Magazine has named its “Person of the Year” as Mark Zuckerberg. As usual, some will object that there are those more worthy of the honor.

While there may have been 60 new tablets introduced, by almost 50 manufacturers, the only one we hear about regularly is the one from Apple.

CEO Carol Bartz has promised to increase Yahoo’s profit margins by 2013 but, so far, doesn’t seem to be making much progress. So. To increase margins, at least temporarily, four percent of the staff is being let go.

We’re constantly asked holiday gift recommendations, and one of the most common is whether or not a Kindle is a good holiday choice.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

If you get a new smartphone and need to turn in your BlackBerry 6 device, you will probably want to remove any personal information. This article steps you through the process of doing a “security wipe” of your device.

This page offers a simple, two step process, to check if your password might have been compromised in the Gawker hack.