Not content with just the automotive industry, Ford may be moving into the password storage business.
According to a promotional video created by French ad company Ogilvy Paris (spotted by Fast Co Design earlier today), Ford is working on a way for users to more easily log in to websites like Facebook and Twitter.
The functionality comes from KeyFree Login, an app that allows users to log in simply by placing their phones next to their computers.
Facebook's business model just hit a stumbling block, as the social network is being forced to let users opt out of having their likenesses repurposed as endorsements in Sponsored Stories ads. The requirement of opt out controls comes as part of a settlement of a class action lawsuit where five Californians said they did not consent to having their names, faces, and activity used to promote companies who paid Facebook.
The European Parliament has been advised to reject a controversial new global anti-piracy trade agreement.
Parliament's influential international trade committee on Thursday voted 19-12 against merely deferring its decision on adopting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) until the European Court of Justice has decided whether it would violate the EC's fundamental freedoms.
The vote means parliament is more likely to adopt the committee's view against ACTA in its July 4 plenary meeting, regardless of whether the court rules it lawful or not.
A few weeks ago we grabbed Jive's Tony Zingale, Box's Aaron Levie, Atlassian's Jay Simons, and Wells Fargo analyst Jason Maynard, and we took them to the Michelin starred restaurant The Plumed Horse. We gave them courses and courses of delicious, tiny food and lots of wine.
And we rolled six cameras the whole time.
As we've started to post snippets of those conversations this week, I've gotten emails from each of them that all say a variation of the following: …
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