Year: 2012

Click here to access’s Facebook’s app that allows users to send a New Year’s Eve greeting to their friends to be delivered at midnight (presumably local time for them). The app was temporarily taken down […]

Just about all digital cameras — even the inexpensive point and shoot ones — have controls that you can use to fine tune your pictures. Sure they have an automatic mode and, sure, that mode […]

by Larry Magid This post fist appeared in the San Jose Mercury News This was a relatively uneventful year for tech gadgets and services, but the companies behind those products still managed to make a […]

I had a chance to, literally, test drive Google Maps for iPhone and, so far, I like what I see. It’s not the most sophisticated navigation app but it’s easy to use and has the […]

  by Larry Magid I can almost hear the moaning from the more than a billion Facebook users around the world “Oh no, not another change in Facebook’s privacy settings.” But before you panic, know that this time […]

CNET news is reporting that Amazon has been granted a patent to protect falling gadgets “by using tiny airbags and even jets of air.” Scroll down to view the patent application. Pat 8330305

In a follow up to a 2011 study, the Federal Trade Commission found that “little or no progress has been made” on disclosure of information gathering since the first report was issued. Read more on […]

by Larry Magid This post fist appeared in the San Jose Mercury News Last week text messaging celebrated its 20th anniversary. It was on December 3, 1992 that British engineer Neil Papworth said “Merry Christmas” […]

Amazon has just fired another shot in its battle to convince families to buy its Kindle Fire tablet (starting at $159). The company just announced Kindle FreeTime Unlimited, which it describes as an “all-you-can-eat content […]

An hour or so with Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt’s new coffee table book, The Human Face of Big Data confirmed what I have been thinking for awhile. “Big data” can be both a blessing and a […]