Smartphones give passwords the finger

28 February 2014 Happy Friday. It's been yet another busy week in the world of technolgy. The biggest news was, of course, various announcements at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. IT Pro writer Liam Tung was amongst the action. Here, he examines if biometrics will finally spell the death of the password. Drew Turney takes a look at whether algorithms and social media can accurately predict the success of a movie, and Nate Cochrane delves into Sochi - the most data-intensive Olympics yet. As usual, there's much more happening than we can fit in this newsletter, so head to our IT Pro page when you finish clicking on these. Have a great weekend. Lia Timson, Technology Editor, ltimson@fairfaxmedia.com.au Smartphones give passwords the finger Workers who need to access their work systems from their smartphone may soon be giving the finger to passwords, writes Liam Tung from the Mobile World Congress. The most data-intensive games ever, Sochi takes mobile gold Massive communications infrastructure coped with information and wireless device overload. Banks could lose 'big chunk of business' to nimbler technologies Australian banks could lose a "big chunk of business" if they fail to keep up with nimble technology suppliers now elbowing their way into the payments space. Melbourne IT acquires NetRegistry for $50.4 million Web hosting provider Melbourne IT has acquired rival web domain registrar and web hosting business NetRegistry for $50.4 million. Advertisement More for you Bitcoin owners find safe place for digital currency Canberra IT firm Dataflex goes into administration Social media, analytics predicting box office success Forget test audiences and box office sales, a movie's popularity can now be predicted with computer algorithms and social media patterns. More data centre bandwidth? There's an app for that An Australian start-up claims to have found a way to enable customers to provision bandwidth between data centres around Australia from a web browser or mobile device.   UK spied on Yahoo webcams, reports say Britain's spy agency GCHQ intercepted millions of people's webcam chats and stored still images of them, including sexually explicit ones, according to reports. I'd sell BBM for $19 billion: BlackBerry CEO After Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp for $US19 billion, BlackBerry's CEO said he wouldn't hesitate to sell BBM for that much money. Fingerprint payment secure, says PayPal Online transaction company PayPal has insisted its upcoming fingerprint-based smartphone payment system is private and secure. How to get a job at Google The five key attributes that Google looks for when hiring don't include academic results. We've sent you this email because your email address garn14.tech@blogger.com has been registered for a Fairfax Media membership. You can unsubscribe from this email at any time. At Fairfax Media, we'll never ask for your personal or credit card information via email. If you receive a suspicious email claiming to offer Fairfax Media services in exchange for your details, please delete it. Copyright © 2014 Fairfax Media Privacy Policy Conditions of Use Unsubscribe