Brian Livingston

We know how to make the Internet secure. Now the question is, “Will we do it?” I wrote in this space last week about “Pass2Go,” a piece of software that resides on a key-sized USB Flash drive. The device stores all of the username/password combinations that log you into the various Web sites and secure […]

Quick! Can you remember all the user names and passwords that you’ve used at every Web site where you’ve ever registered? I’ll bet you can’t. But it’s no shame not to remember all these things off the top of your head. No one can. That’s why people write their passwords on Post-It notes and stick […]

After a long period of development and beta testing, the final “gold” version of Firefox 1.0 was released on Nov. 9 — and the computer press has largely hailed this new competitor to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser with praise suitable for the Second Coming of Christ. I hate to interrupt all this lovey-dovey, huggy-wuggy stuff, […]

How much money could a single traveling salesperson be costing your company in wireless Internet access charges? The answer could surprise you. Multiply that by 1,000 or more workers wandering around the planet and we’re talkin’ real money here. Let’s take the example of a single wireless laptop user we’ll call John: • LGA. John […]