Year: 2011

I’m writing this post on a cool Spring day in Silicon Valley, but we are getting close to summer when temperatures rise and PCs occasionally act up. Although modern PCs are built to mostly work fine in […]

San Francisco — Day one of the annual Google I/O developer’s was all things Android. The day began with a recap of Android’s growth in the two and a half years it’s been on the […]

ReadWriteWeb is reporting that a similar Wi-Fi  bug that affected early iPad users is now affecting the iPad 2.  Users are getting weak signals or being dropped completely. The problem apparently is also affecting some iPhone, iPod […]

The White House on Thursday sent Congress a proposal for cybersecurity legislation that would, among other things, create a national data breach reporting system that is consistant across all 50 states. Currently 47 states have […]

On the second day of the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco, PC makers Samsung and Acer announced that they will be shipping “Chromebooks” that run Google’s Chrome Operating System. Instead of running traditional PC software, […]

by Larry Magid started thinking about Android tablets the moment Apple introduced the iPad back in January 2010. After all, if Apple could find a way to make its wildly successful iPhone operating system work on […]

Whether you recycle your old computer, sell it, give it away or take it to the dump, you may also be giving away personal information, even if you think you erased everything on your hard […]

The recent break-in of Sony’s PlayStation Network underscores the need not only to have strong passwords but not to use the same password on each site you visit. Below are links to some resources and […]

In October I  purchased a 2010 Prius with a basic radio instead of the factory navigation and audio system that would have cost about $2,000 extra. At first I just used my Android phone, which […]

In a statement issued Wednesday morning, Apple said “The iPhone is not logging your location. Rather, it’s maintaining a database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your current location, some of which may be […]