| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | BlackBerry Is Said To Warm To Idea Of A Breakup
| | | BlackBerry Ltd. is more open to a breakup of the company amid concerns that Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. may be unable to line up funding or partners for a $4.7 billion buyout, a person with knowledge of the matter said. (Bloomberg)
Why This Is Important: Selling the company in portions might be more profitable than selling it as a whole.
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| | #2 | How The Bible And YouTube Are Fueling The Next Frontier Of Password Cracking
| | | Early last year, password security researcher Kevin Young was hitting a brick wall. Over the previous few weeks, he made steady progress decoding cryptographically protected password data leaked from the then-recent hack of intelligence firm Stratfor. (Ars Technica)
Why This Is Important: When the usual pet names fail, password crackers have found that Internet users are turning to the Bible and YouTube to safeguard their accounts.
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| | #3 | Fitbit Force Combines Smartwatch and Fitness Tracker
| | | There is about to be a big battle for your wrist, and Fitbit, one of the major pioneers in the fitness tracker space, is ready with a brand new soldier. Today, the company is introducing the $129.95 Fitbit Force, a bracelet that combines the company's expertise in digital fitness tracking with some basic smartwatch functionality. (ABC News)
Why This Is Important: One of the "original smart watches" (but for fitness junkies), the Fitbit line was just updated six months ago with the Flex. The Force adds an altimeter and will preview calls coming in to an iPhone.
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"We probably have one of the largest personal biometric databases in the world around health and fitness, but we're very careful about people's privacy, so it definitely limits us in terms of what we can do with the data," said FitBit CEO and co-founder James Park to AllThingsD. "But I think there's a lot of opportunity to develop sophisticated analytics on top of it that really give people insight into how they spend their day and how they can improve their health, so we have a pretty big R&D team that's looking at that stuff."
| | | Blog Post of The Day | CE Industry Celebrates Progress In Sustainability
By Sarah Garfinkel
The CEA 2013 Sustainability Report was officially released during a launch party earlier this month. Leaders from the consumer
electronics industry, as well as environmental advocates, gave remarks highlighting the accomplishments of the industry in its efforts to become more eco-friendly. More » |
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