By Larry Magid If you have small children, you can now buy Mattel’s Hello Barbie ($75), which not only talks, but listens. I sat down with her digital parents, the founders of San Francisco-based ToyTalk, which makes the software and operates the cloud-based...
When I started SafeKids.com in the mid-90’s and even when I co-founded ConnectSafely.org in 2005, it was widely assumed that parents were digital immigrants and that to be a digital native, you had to be a kid. But time moves on and some of those digital natives...
By Larry Magid By now you may have heard about the data breach at VTech, which makes electronic toys for very young children ranging from zero to six years old. Its line includes “My First Tablet” aimed at toddlers, the Kidizoom Action Cam for preschoolers, smart...
By Larry Magid I’m writing this column on a train from Washington to New York. Both cities have been the subject of recent threats claiming to be from ISIS and I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t just a bit on edge. I don’t know if the threats...
By Larry Magid A new study commissioned by the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) found that the majority of parents are “highly confident” in their ability to manage their child’s technology use, and “most feel they know a lot about what their...
