Month: November 2011

by Larry Magid The Federal Trade Commission and Facebook have reached a settlement on charges that Facebook deceived consumers “by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it […]

Facebook is reportedly considering an IPO some time in 2012 that could value the company at $100 billion. If that were to happen, CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s share would be worth $24 billion, making him wealthier […]

IBM Smarter Commerce has reported the following as of 6:00 PM Eastern time on Cyber Monday: Cyber Monday 2011 online sales are 15% of same period last year

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid A story at TabTimes.com has me wondering if Apple’s market dominance in tablets might soon be over. The article, which quoted Citigroup analyst Mark […]

Parents looking for information about video game suitability for their kids have a new tool from the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB.org). The ESRB Search App lets you use you speak the name of the game or […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid   Last week was big for online music. Apple finally got around to launching its long-awaited iTunes Match service and Google  Music graduated from beta test […]

TabTimes reported on a survey from PriceGrabber that indicates consumers — in large numbers — would prefer a tablet this holiday over a laptop. According to the survey, 79% of consumers would  rather get a […]

In January I wondered outloud if the iPad will make us less creative.  I pointed out that there was a time when schools taught kids how to program computers but lamented that the vast majority […]

by Larry Magid Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet isn’t an iPad killer, but it could be an iPad wounder.  Yes, there are plenty of things I prefer about the $499 iPad 2 over the $199 […]

by Larry Magid A study from Symantec found that 21% of teachers had either been cyberbaited or knew a teacher who had. Cyberbaiting, according to Symantec’s Internet safety advocate, Marian Merritt, is when students deliberately provoke a […]