Year: 2011

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 […]

By Larry Magid I’ve been in Barcelona, Spain, for a few days where I delivered the keynote at the Mediterranean Association of International Schools. No trip to Barcelona would be complete without a visit to […]

A study released last week by the Pew Internet & American Life Project had what might be surprising news about online teens. They actually listen to parental advice. The big take-away from the report, “Teens, Kindness and […]

A just released study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that “69% of social media-using teens think that peers are mostly kind to each other on social network sites.” The study, which […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid Data and privacy regulators from governments around the world met in Mexico City last week for the 33rd International Conference of Data […]

The Huffington Post has a useful slide show on saving iPhone battery life based on some common techniques used for all phones plus some special issues regarding what is an iOS 5.0 bug that Apple has […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid During its quarterly earnings report last week, Netflix admitted that it had lost 800,000 customers since it announced a price increase in June, but […]