Mar 14, 2016
By Sue Scheff It’s a fact of life: people today spend more time digitally connected than ever before. This generation of youth, as well as young adults and parents, are having to deal with peer cruelty through cyberspace (also known as cyberbullying). A new Syfy...
Mar 9, 2016
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...
Mar 2, 2016
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....
Feb 28, 2016
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...
Feb 24, 2016
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...
Feb 18, 2016
By Larry Magid Since the news broke Tuesday night, I’ve done a lot of live radio and TV interviews about the battle going on between the FBI and Apple and almost every news anchor I spoke with expressed mixed feelings about the case. Just about everyone...
