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by Larry Magid A study from Symantec found that 21% of teachers had either been cyberbaited or knew a teacher who had. Cyberbaiting, according to Symantec’s Internet safety advocate, Marian Merritt, is when students deliberately provoke a […]

By Larry Magid I’ve been in Barcelona, Spain, for a few days where I delivered the keynote at the Mediterranean Association of International Schools. No trip to Barcelona would be complete without a visit to […]

A study released last week by the Pew Internet & American Life Project had what might be surprising news about online teens. They actually listen to parental advice. The big take-away from the report, “Teens, Kindness and […]

A just released study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that “69% of social media-using teens think that peers are mostly kind to each other on social network sites.” The study, which […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid Data and privacy regulators from governments around the world met in Mexico City last week for the 33rd International Conference of Data […]

The Huffington Post has a useful slide show on saving iPhone battery life based on some common techniques used for all phones plus some special issues regarding what is an iOS 5.0 bug that Apple has […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid During its quarterly earnings report last week, Netflix admitted that it had lost 800,000 customers since it announced a price increase in June, but […]

Here is a sound effect download site from WFMU. Here is one of many sites where you can listen to sound effects Here is a video from CNET on how to add sound to anything […]

At is Nokia World Conference in London, phone maker Nokia is showing off a concept phone that you can control by bending and twisting. You can twist the device to control the volume or bend […]

A couple of days after she first appeard on the iPhone 4S, I  conducted what I suspect is the first radio interview of Siri.  You can read about it and listen on my CNET News “For […]