Year: 2011

by Larry Magid You likely have heard about the intrusion of Sony’s PlayStation Network that affects about 77 million customers. In a  blog post Sony said  “we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that […]

Facebook has just launched Facebook Deals to compete with Groupon and Living Social.  It’s currently only available in five test cities: Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego, and San Francisco. The companies hopes to expand the test […]

Yahoo has aquired IntoNow, a Silicon Valley start-up that has a smart phone app (currently works on iPhone with an Android version in the works) that can identify TV shows, commercials and movies based on the […]

As you may have heard, Cisco recently discontinued its once popular Flip camcorder. The Flip was a small video camera with internal memory that transferred files to a PC or a Mac via a little […]

Last Thursday I took the 4:00 PM Megabus from Boston to New York. I knew where I was going as did a few of my friends. AT&T has a record of the cell towers I […]

I’m at Facebook HQ in Palo Alto, California where President Obama is expected to arrive in a little more than an hour.  Already the room is full, mostly with Facebook employees, press and a few […]

CNET description of proposed verification scheme White House proposal (PDF) White House Video provides simple explanation  

Based on the latest data from IDC, CNET’s Eriga Ogg reported that PC sales are down globally by about 3.2%, the first quarter of 2011 over that same period last year. In the US, said […]

by Larry Magid As a long-time technology journalist, I’m a bit jaded and rarely get excited about a new product or technology, but when I saw a demonstration of aurasma, from Autonomy, I had to […]

A clinical report released last week by the American Academy of Pediatrics makes the claim that “researchers have proposed a new condition called ‘Facebook depression.’” It develops “when preteens and teens spend a great deal of […]