Year: 2013

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It took about 15 minutes from the time I unboxed the new Google $35 Chromecast till I was watching YouTube and Netflix on my home TV. Read the full review on Forbes.com

By Larry Magid This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News The Black Hat security conference is sometimes viewed as a “hacker’s” convention, but most of the people in attendance are security professionals […]

Have you ever been tempted to use a public charging station for your phone? Chances are it’s OK, but three Georgia Tech security researchers at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas showed how easy […]

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In a Blog post entitled “We hear you,” Twitter’s Senior Director of Trust & Safety, Del Harvey, announced on Monday that the company has introduced the ability to file reports from an individual tweet on its iPhone app […]

One of the more interesting products shown off at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show was Dell’s Project Ophelia, a tiny 3-inch thumb drive-like device that turns a TV into an Android powered PC. You plug […]

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/103244028″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] At the National Network to End Domestic Violence Technology Summit 2013 in San Jose, Erica Olsen, senior technology safety specialist for the organization talked about what to look for if […]

I’ve had a chance to compare Google’s new Nexus 7 to Apple’s iPad mini and, as I write in this Forbes post, I prefer the Nexus.  CNET’s Brooke Crothers agrees and CNET’s official review of the […]

A new voluntary code has been tentatively established to assure greater transparency in the types of information apps collect and how the information is used, but it’s not entirely clear whether the code will be […]