PC Magazine (May 8th issue) releases the top ten passwords used on the Internet. I don't know how did they gather the data though... Anyway, here is the list:
1. password
2. 123456
3. qwerty
4. abc123
5. letmein
6. monkey
7. myspace1
8. password1
9. blink182
10. (your first name)
What's more important is stop using them ASAP. Because the most popular hacking method is "brutal force" (trying possible character combinations / words).
Found this video clip from Laura's blog. Really interesting facts... Here are few lines from the video:
It you are one in a milling, in China, there are 1300 people just like you. In India,there are 1100 people just like you.
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According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley, the top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2010 didn't exist in 2004. We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist, using technologies that haven't yet been invented.
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Nintendo invested more than $140 million in research and development in 2002 alone. The U.S. federal government spent less than half as much on research and innovation in education.
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1 of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.
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There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month. To whom these questions were addressed before Google Time?
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The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.
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It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes (1.5 X 10^18) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year. That's estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.
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Third-generation fiber optics has recently been tested by both NEC and Alcatel, that pushes 10 trillion bits per second down one strand of fiber. That's 1900 CDs, or 150 million simultaneous phone calls, every second.
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47 million laptops were shipped worldwide last year.
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Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capability of the human brain
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Here is the e-readiness rank 2006 from the Economist Intelligence Unit, Canada advanced into top 10! China and India both dropped.
2006 / 2005 / Country / 2006 score / 2005 score
1 / 1 / Denmark / 9.00 / 8.74
2 / 2 / US / 8.88 / 8.73
3 / 4 / Switzerland / 8.81 / 8.62
4 / 3 / Sweden / 8.74 / 8.64
5 / 5 / UK / 8.64 / 8.54
6 / 8 / Netherlands / 8.60 / 8.28
7 / 6 / Finland / 8.55 / 8.32
8 / 10 / Australia / 8.50 / 8.22
9 / 12 / Canada / 8.37 / 8.03
10 / 6 / Hong Kong / 8.36 / 8.32
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53 / 49 / India / 4.25 / 4.17
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57 / 54 / China / 4.02 / 3.85
Most of the e-readiness scores have been increased, which is a good indication of overall improvement in the information technology growth globally.
Broadband penetration is becoming less of a distinction among e-readiness leaders. In China (ranked 57th) and India (53rd), companies are increasingly investing in open source software as a cost-effective way into next-general IT platforms. The vast majority of email services in Chinese businesses, for example, reportedly run on Linux-based software.
Some key factors being used the e-readiness measurements include:
Broadband Internet Access, Mobile Internet Access, Wireless Technologies, VOIP (Voice over IP), Software Development Infrastructures (both commercial and open source).
For more information on 2006 e-readiness, click here.
Since Google established it's Shanghai office in the year 2005, more online users in China start to learn the GOOGLE language. Baidu has taken the lead of the search engine market in China since 2003. According to a recent study by iResearch, there were 56.6% online users use Baidu vs. 32.8% Google users. The third place is held by Yahoo China. According to the study, there are over 97 million online users (87.4%) use search engines on the daily basis in China. This number may exceed 100 million this year.
The online shopping market exceeded 4 billion RMB last year where 3/4 of the sales were based on online ads and the other 1/4 of the sales were generated from online searches. From the data of the North American online market growth, we can expect this ratio (online ads. vs search ads.) will change gradually in China this year.
One challenge Goolge China is facing is that both Baidu and Yahoo support MP3 searches which some what is violating the copy right law of digital music distributions. However, there are dramatic amount of users are choosing the two search engines based on this service. Google needs to either join the game and offer similar MP3 search services or future enforce it's competitors - Baidu and Yahoo China to terminate the commercial MP3 search features.
Wikipedia ranked #1 in montly traffic compare to other knowledge database websites with 12.8 million visitors in September 2005. Leading by 9 million vistors over Yahoo Education whom is the second place in the ranking of the same genre.
It's amazing how well wikis are being used in the education field for collaborative knowledge building. Attended Colleen Carmean's seminar yesterday on "Designing for a Difference". She showed a perfect example on how efficient has wiki been used for a campus wide ISIT initiative at the University of Arizona.
The data was taken from iresearch.com.cn
Found the link to this survey from Brent's blog, it's a quite intereating survey. I took it and let's just say I want to figure out how was the result driven out before sharing mine. Take it yourself and have fun!
* NEW * 2006 e-readiness rankings available here
The e-readiness rankings is an annual ranking system over the world's 60 largest economies. It is a measure of the country's e-business environment. But of cause the numbers may also indicate how amenable a market is to Internet-based opportunities. The research studies over 100 quantitative and qualitative criteria across 6 distinct categories. I personally think the collected figures may be fluctuate in a quite large range. Plus it is meaningless to compare a smaller regional economie vs a much larger one (HK vs entire Mainland China, should be HK vs Shanghai etc.). But it is a good enough data to represent how well the government has done over all in the past years on supporting technology growth in the regions.
e-Readiness Ranking Country Score(2004) 2004 2003 2002 Denmark 8.28 1 2 7 UK 8.27 2 3 3 Sweden 8.25 3 1 4 Norway 8.11 4 7 11 Finland 8.08 5 6 10 USA 8.04 6 3 1 Singapore 8.02 7 12 11 Netherlands 8.00 8 3 2 Hong Kong 7.97 9 10 14 Switzerland 7.96 10 8 4 Canada 7.92 11 10 9 Australia 7.88 12 9 6 Germany 7.83 13 13 8 Korea 7.73 14 16 21 Austria 7.68 15 14 13 ... China 3.96 52 50
For the full report, please read the original document:
http://graphics.eiu.com/files/ad_pdfs/ERR2004.pdf
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