Month: March 2007

by Larry Magid Unlike some of my fellow Internet safety activists, I think that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers did the right thing by rejecting the proposed .XXX top level domain designation. […]

by Larry Magid Sometimes the best way to save money on printing is to spend more up front. That’s certainly the case with the new HP Officejet Pro L7680 Color All-in-One multifunction printer/scanner/fax/copier. At $399, […]

by Larry Magid I don’t prepare my own tax return, but I do create a report for my accountant (who happens to be my brother). That means gathering all sorts of records about earnings and […]

by Larry Magid The March 22nd ruling by judge Lowell Reed Jr. heralds the end of a long and torturous battle over Congress’s ill-fated 1998 Children’s Online Protection Act. The law, if it had ever […]

Whether your goal is to influence an election, display your creativity or just have some fun, creating and editing your own video is easier than ever. YouTube and other online video sharing services are all […]

View Larry’s CBS News video for more details The Daylight Saving Time switch took place early Sunday morning and as most experts predicted, the world didn’t come to an end. Computers that had been “patched” […]

A lot has been written lately about the switch this past weekend from standard to daylight-saving time – three weeks earlier than past years. Some PC and PDA software needed to be updated, but what […]

This ZDNet Australia story is quite disturbing.  My first impression of OneCare was quite positive but I uninstalled it after having some problems with my video card that seemed to be related. But this story is […]

by Larry Magid As the 20th century drew to a close, some prophets of gloom and doom warned that a Y2K technology meltdown loomed for that much anticipated moment when the calendar was to move […]

By Larry Magid Special to the Mercury News Move over MySpace — there’s a new social networking service and I’m running it. Well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration. My new “service” (costcotips.ning.com) isn’t likely […]