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by Larry Magid This article first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News I’ve never thought of myself as a “traditionalist.” But after I saw Google’s blog post last week about a recent change to […]

Jessie Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network (Credit: Columbia Pictures) I didn’t discuss The Social Network movie with Mark Zuckerberg when I interviewed him in May but I have talked with others who […]

Panda Labs 3rd Quarter 2010 threat report (PDF) found that 95% of all email is spam. It also said that Trojans constituted 55% of all new threats but infections via email are declining in favor […]

by Larry Magid This article first appeared on CNET News.com The Stuxnet computer worm that may have been designed to attack a nuclear facility in Iran could have been state sponsored, according to two security […]

It’s time to modernize school technology (Credit: London School of Economics, 1981 — via Flickr Creative Commons) The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to modernize E-Rate. E-Rate was established in 1996 to provide federal […]

Participants from throughout the world are gathered in Vilnius, Lithuania, this week for the fifth-annual Internet Governance Forum. The IGF is an annual United Nations-sponsored event where representatives from governments, nonprofits, academic institutions, and businesses […]

Sprint’s Epic 4G from Samsung stands out from the competition as one of the best Android phones on the market. The first thing you notice is the stunning 4 inch AMOLED display and the extra […]

A new Facebook scam is taking advantage of people’s desire to be able to “dislike” posts by tricking users into completing an online survey and spamming links to their friends. Sophos blogger Graham Cluley has reported […]

Lately I’ve gotten a sense that lots of Internet users are suffering from “privacy panic,” not unlike the “predator panic” that plagued the Internet a few years ago when lots of people falsely believed that […]