SSH Communications Security announced the SSH Tectia MobileID authentication platform. SSH Tectia MobileID is a two-factor authentication service utilizing the end user’s existing mobilephone to provide user authentication to various enterprise services.

Humans have limitations. More is not always better. Some are finding that at some point you stop being a “friend” and become an unapproachable, on-line “expert”. This article discusses the phenomenon.

Internet advertising is under the gun because — for some people — it actually works too well.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

Aardvark allows you to ask full-text questions of people in, or near, your social circle and get answers. The service uses your Facebook, LinkedIn, or e-mail contacts to determine who that might be.

Facebook published user data without permission, but they aren’t ‘guilty’ of doing so. There’s a $9.5 million settlement, of which lawyers get one-third. And, of the 3.6 million people in the class action suit, only a handful will get any of the remaining money.

It may not be the prettiest notebook available but, except for the smaller screen, it has the same specs as Lenovo’s ThinkPad Edge; 320-GB hard drive, 1.3-GHz Core 2 Duo U7300 CPU, and 1366 x 768 screen resolution.

With so many apps available for the iPhone, it’s difficult to find the best ones. This contest looked at some 27,000 apps in 56 categories, both applications and games, and narrowed the list down to 560 finalists. The winner, and several runners-up are listed for each category.

Crowd-sourcing, getting lots of opinions from lots of people, is being used to help change the taxi cabs of New York City. The hope is to get enough data to manufacturers about customer’s likes and needs to influence the design.

On Monday Motorola announced Android 2.1 would start hitting handsets this week. Unfortunately, that wasn’t what they meant to say.

Google is starting an “experiment” in fiber-optic. The company is asking towns across the U.S. to apply as “test markets” for a planned fiber-optic network capable of providing broadband service at 1Gbps.