Month: April 2017

A pair of recent reports sheds light on how teens are using social media, including the revelation that not all teens are glued to social media 24/7. Many do take breaks. You can find links to […]

by Larry Magid On a rare San Francisco Bay Area rainy day, I drove by a house whose automatic sprinkler system was watering the lawn, even though water was falling from the sky. It’s a […]

Forget those geeky selfie pictures where you hold your arms as far away from your torso as they’ll stretch or those  much maligned “selfie-sticks.” Instead, consider investing $29.99 in the ShowOff, a magnetic phone mount […]

The Best Parental Control Software of 2017: PC Mag The Top Wireless Routers for Your Family: PC Mag (2014)

Microsoft is out with the new Windows 10 Creators Update and, from what I can tell, it’s an improvement. But that doesn’t mean you should be the first on your block to upgrade. First, if […]

I’m not about to predict the imminent demise of cable TV and satellite services, but a couple of recent announcements are sure putting pressure on them by making it easier and, in some cases, more […]

Revenge porn, when someone shares an intimate image of another person without his or her permission, is an awful practice, which often causes significant emotional distress.  And that’s true even if the image was taken […]

At first glance, both of HP’s two new convertible laptops look a bit like the Spectre X360 convertible laptop that I wrote about when it came out last fall. But glances can be slightly deceiving Continue […]

Amazon is now accepting cash. No you don’t scan the cash with your phone’s camera. Instead you print or download a code that you take to a retailer who will scan it. You then hand […]

Fake news is in the news but it’s more a symptom of a common tendency to believe things that aren’t necessarily 100% true. And, as Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, executive director of the National Association of […]