Year: 2013

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/114814971″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Click for Larry Magid’s 1-minute CBS News & CNET segment about Facebook dropping the search setting Facebook has eliminated a setting called  “Who can look up your […]

While bullying has been around forever, there was no such thing as cyberbullying until about 20 years ago when people discovered the ability to use technology to display their mean, cruel, annoying and generally negative […]

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by Larry Magid My wife and I recently took a drive to Half Moon Bay and visited Toque Blanche, our favorite kitchen store. Like a lot of small merchants, it’s staffed by friendly and knowledgeable […]

Facebook on Wednesday hosted an  Anti-Defamation League program on “Free Speech, Civility and the Challenge of Cyberhate” to  address the issue of hate online hate speech. The panel was moderated by ADL Civil Rights Director […]

Larry’s CBS News/CNET Tech Talk [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/113443621″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] A Parents’ Guide to Cybersecurity (by ConnectSafely.org) Top 5 Questions parents have about cybersecurity plus advice on how to help protect your entire family from […]

by Larry Magid This year marks my 30th anniversary as a newspaper technology columnist. It started in the summer of 1983, when I started writing “Computer File” for the Los Angeles Times. The Times syndicated […]

It’s been possible for awhile to run some apps in the background on an iPhone and other iOS devices but with  iOS 7, Apple extended that privilege to a broader range of apps. That can be good […]

Late Tuesday night Amazon announced a pair of new Kindle Fire HDX tablets with one incredibly useful feature and another one that’s useful, but maybe not incredibly so. What excites me is that Prime Instant video and TV shows […]