AI, Mobile, and Eveything Around the Cloud

We're less than a day from Apple's, what we hope, game-changing media event that will once again propel the company ahead of everyone else in the mobile market and mark 9/9/14 as the true launch date of the wearable computing market. Having said, that, I'm sure you've been looking the rumors and and pics of the iPhone 6.  And there have been plenty.  However, there is one thing that I noticed about these mock-ups that no one else has mentioned in their observations, tweets, or blogs. The iPhone 6, whether it's the 4.7" or 5.5" versions, looks like the original iPhone if you stretch it out a big and half its thickness. I still like the look and feel of the original iPhone.  The weight gave it a premium feel as does the aluminum.  The black front does as well. While I am still out on whether I'll be upgrading this cycle, I think if I do, I would get the black and gray version.

I love two-step verification.  I want it and I know a lot of folks do too.  I've been using it for Google and other cloud-based services for years now.  While Apple does offer it for some app purchases, it's time that Apple brings it to logging into iCloud. Right now, I just get a lame e-mail like this. This is useless in more ways than I can think of.  First, if I'm not in front of a computer that allows me to log into a desktop based browser (it's not that I can't use it on my iPad or iPhone Safari.  It just isn't optimized for them) to do get into the Apple ID page, it's useless.  Second, there is no option for me to do something about it within the e-mail. It's nice that I get a warning but doesn't help if I'm in no position to stop an unauthorized log-in. By the time I log in, the hacker could have already log-in himself and have already changed my password and other credentials. Now, the main impetus for me writing about this n...