Year: 2012

by Larry Magid The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a revised set of proposed rules (PDF) regarding the implementation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). When implemented, this will be the first time the FTC […]

ComScore is out with its latest smart phone marketshare report. For details, visit my Forbes blog.

Microsoft is in the process of killing-off its much maligned Hotmail web-based email and  replacing it with Outlook.com. Outlook is the name of Microsoft’s email application that’spart of the Microsoft Office suite which is heavily […]

If you look up your address in Google Maps, there’s a chance that you’ll see your car parked out in front, assuming you’re on one of the many routes captured by Google street view. These […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid A recent survey by Opinion Matters on behalf of GFI Software found that many people don’t fully understand how to protect their data and […]

Update: On its blog, Twitter said the outage came from within  their data centers. “What was noteworthy about today’s outage was the coincidental failure of two parallel systems at nearly the same time,” blogged Engineering […]

by Larry Magid Netflix shares stumbled in after-hours trading Tuesday after the Los Gatos-based company reported that it added only 530,000 new streaming customers while losing 850,000 customers who had been renting DVDs. I don’t […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News By Larry Magid It doesn’t take four computers to write a newspaper column but, just to prove a point, that’s what I’m doing as I try out […]

The Internet Defense League, a coalition of companies and individuals worried about government regulation of the Internet will project a cat symbol in the skies of San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C., London and the Mongolian […]