"If the celebs' iCloud account passwords were brute forced, the problem seems to be lack of rate limiting by Apple, not lack of crypto," commented Christopher Soghoian, principal technology at the American Civil Liberties Union.
One of the people planning the voices that future BMW's will use is Juergen Bruegl, the principal technology engineer for human-machine interfaces at BMW's technology office in Palo Alto, Calif.
The principal technology that creates this intermittent movement is the Geneva watch movement, in which a four-slotted star wheel, or "Maltese cross," converts the tension of the mainspring to the ticking of toothed gears.
That would be a faster transition than has been assumed until now by the semiconductor industry, which has planned for light-wave etching to be the principal technology through the next two and possibly three generations of semiconductor manufacturing, beginning in 2007.
Chris Green, principal technology analyst at the Davies Murphy Group consultancy, dismissed the project as a "gimmick".
"It's a long-term plan," said Chris Green, principal technology analyst at the Davies Murphy Group consultancy.
