Month: March 2012

The  inaugural Super Happy Block Party Hackathon took place in a converted art gallery and a parking garage in downtown Palo Alto, California where venture capitalists, startup companies and hackers (the good kind) got together to […]

Update (4:50 ET). Global Payments, Inc. has acknowledged that it “self identified and self-reported unauthorized access into a portion of its processing system.” Krebs on Security reported that MasterCard and Visa are alerating banks about a “massive” data breach  that “may […]

by Larry Magid After spending several days playing with the third-generation iPad, I put it aside and went back to using my Samsung Galaxy Tablet 10.1, my Kindle Fire and even my old original iPad […]

This is a press release from the University at Buffalo and not original content.  Listen to Larry Magid’s interview with Ifeoma Nwogu BUFFALO, N.Y. — Inspired by the work of psychologists who study the human face for […]

Adapted from a column that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on March 26, 2012 by Larry Magid To say Apple  is no ordinary company is a gross understatement. With a market capitalization (the total value […]

Are you hearing a bit too much from some of your Facebook friends. You can turn them into “acquaintances” which means you’ll hear from them less frequently. One way to do this is to visit […]

The telephone as we know it — or at least as we adults knew it — may soon be a thing of the past. I’m not talking ab0ut  smartphones – they’re really not phones, but pocket-sized […]

Adapted from a column that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on March 19, 2012 By Larry Magid When I was a kid, it was common for door-to-door salesmen to pitch the Encyclopaedia Britannica […]

I always thought that the iPad 2 had a great screen — until I got my hands on the new (3rd generation) iPad. Now, all of a sudden the text and graphics on that “old” […]

Reporters Without Borders is out with its annual list of countries it calls “Enemies of the Internet.” New to the list are Bahrain and Belarus. Others include Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, […]