Month: July 2013

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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 […]

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/102489549″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] At a press event in San Francisco Google on Wednesday, Google introduced a $35 “stick” that plugs into your high-def TV to bring Internet content to your […]

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/102197274″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] The Wall Street Journal, reports that roughly 1 in 5 Korean students are addicted to their smartphones. But the problem isn’t limited to Korea. Last year Time magazine reported the results […]

This post is apapted from one that appeared in the San Jose Mercury New by Larry Magid AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have recently announced plans that let people upgrade their phones more often. But before you get […]

Listen to Larry Magid’s CBS News/CNET Tech Talk about this subject [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/101217650″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] By now you’re probably familiar with tracking cookies – tiny little files stored on your device […]