Month: April 2013

On April 30th, 1993, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced that it was creating the World Wide Web “to make an easy but powerful global information system” that  ”consists of documents referring to each other by […]

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/89928816″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Instead of Galaxy S4, Samsung should have called its new phone the KS 4, for “kitchen sink,” because when designing this phone, Samsung threw in “everything but the kitchen sink.” It […]

A report from Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) found “critical security vulnerabilities in numerous small office/home office (SOHO) routers and wireless access points.” The report categorized these remote locally accessible vulnerabilities as follows: Trivial attacks can be launched directly […]

I happend to be in New York on Earth Day and so was Frances Moore Lappé, the author of the 1971 environmental classic Diet for a Small Planet and the recent book  EcoMind: Changing the Way We […]

I usually do things quickly and, for some things, that works out great.  But when it comes to eating, slower is better. So, on Sunday night, I spent three hours with colleagues over a three course dinner […]

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The Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) “has major shortcomings and would undermine the interests of citizens and their privacy,” a group of House members in a “Dear Colleague” letter. Even though “the bill has improved […]

(This post first appeared on Forbes.com) by Larry Magid I’m a very frequent business traveler and most of the time I book my flights using an online service like Expedia, Travelocity or Orbitz or the airline’s own […]

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Google and Nixle are working together to help people better respond to emergency situations in their communities and schools. Emergency alerts, about crimes in progress, lock-downs, natural disasters, missing children and other events will now show up when […]