By Larry Magid If you’re an aspiring student filmmaker or a K-12 teacher with some talented students, consider entering the What’s Your Story video contest to share your or your students’ thoughts on what the Internet means to you. There are two...
By Larry Magid Many of today’s smartphones, including most from Apple and Samsung, have fingerprint readers that enable you to register one or more of your fingerprints to unlock your phone. It’s very convenient – I have this feature on my Google Nexus 6 phone and...
By Kerry Gallagher We are in the midst or a revolution in information and we have an opportunity. Collectively, we are building the information repository of the future by posting, remixing, liking, and sharing online. Even this post is contributing to that future....
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News The war on encryption is center stage, thanks to the battle between the FBI and Apple over the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. But even though the FBI found a way to access the phone without...
By Larry Magid By now you may have heard that Facebook’s “like” button has company. In addition to saying that you like someone else’s post, you can now say Love, Haha, Wow Sad or Angry. The initiative, said Facebook engineering director Tom...
