Since the summary is so difficult to understand, the jist of the article is that GE's visualisations (I will not grace them with the title "graph") are completely useless in comparing datasets, and are completely confusing to use. This seems to indicate that GE (like many companies) like to fiddle with the presentation of data to push their agenda. (Shock, Horror!) Sadly, this case is an insult to good design principles and statisticians everywhere.

National Australia Bank implements SMS security, that sends a code to your mobile phone when you attempt to log into internet banking, you then need to enter this code to be able to log in and/or to transfer funds. I'd call that two channel authentication.

Gesture based interfaces are a bit of a mixed bag, if they are done well (see the iOS pinch gestures) they work very well, but if badly implemented you end up accidentally triggering them all the time. Despite the age of the classic "object" based UI designs, they are still the best control method (in most cases), just because you can see what you are doing by what you hit.

Because, if we send bacon that way, pigs will fly.

Ooh, maybe now they can fix up their terribly out of date computer systems! ... or, knowing any sort of big business, just kludge it back into a semi-working state and call the bugs "features".

I hope to god this doesn't turn into a real life Bioshock... or maybe not, Rapture seems like a cool idea without the Adam mutated splicers.