An executive recently told analyst Rob Enderle of Giga Information Group about a meeting where a group of his subordinates all had small computing devices but took notes on paper instead.

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Once in, the hacker spammed Honan's Twitter followers and deleted all the data from his various devices.

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One notable self-tracker, Gordon Bell of Microsoft Labs, keeps recording devices on him at all times, and hopes to outsource his memory to a computer, with all of his conversations and interactions key-worded and searchable.

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At CES Bill Gates clearly laid out his ambition to put Microsoft at the heart of the digital era with Windows powering all sorts of connected devices.

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In fact, all of the devices in Darby's home -- from the biometric mouse that has his computer reading fingerprints instead of asking for passwords to the media center in his lounge -- are available for ordinary consumers to buy in shops.

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