Month: February 2014

Watching the online stream of a news conference last week from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona brought to mind an old cliché: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. In this case it applies […]

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/137091180″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] When it comes to understanding how teens use social media, there’s no-one more clued-in than Danah Boyd, except perhaps teens themselves. An ethnographer with a Ph.D in Information […]

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/137091180″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] TiVo founders Mike Ramsay and Jim Barton revolutionized the way we watch TV by letting us pause and rewind live TV or watch it later without having to […]

There’s an old expression, “I’ve met the enemy and he is us.” When it comes to cyber-security, “us” may just stand for “U.S.” I’ve attended the RSA security conference for many years years and am […]

by Larry Magid This post is adapted from one that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News The fact that the Internet has disrupted age-old businesses has become an old story. Just ask anyone in […]

Google’s high-speed fiber network is already available in Kansas City and Provo, Utah and will be coming to Austin later this year. But the company is now in talks with an additional 34 cities to […]

It was a great honor that ConnectSafely.org, the non-profit Internet Safety organization where I serve as co-director, was selected to host the first official U.S. Safer Internet Day.  The day, which has been celebrated in […]

View the live webcast here from 9:00 AM to noon Eastern (6:00 to 9:00 PT) by Larry Magid This column first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News For the past 11 years, the European […]

Click here to read the full post on Forbes.com and listen to 4 minute interview with Artkick CEO Sheldon Laube.