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Month: February 2016

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Facebook’s new Reactions emojis are great, but I still prefer comments

February 25, 2016

I have mixed feelings about Facebook’s new Reactions product. On one hand, I applaud the company for offering users a wider range of emotional responses they can easily make to other people’s posts but I […]

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The inside story of Facebook’s Reactions: Beyond ‘Like’

February 24, 2016

By now you may have heard that Facebook’s “like” button has company. In addition to saying that you like someone else’s post, you can now say Love, Haha, Wow, Sad or Angry. The initiative, said Facebook […]

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Podcast: Group plans rallies to support Apple in its battle with the FBI

February 22, 2016

The group Fight for the Future is organizing rallies at Apple stores around the country to support the company in its battle with the FBI over the court order that could require Apple to create a […]

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CBS San Francisco Video: Larry Magid on Apple/FBI iPhone issue

February 22, 2016

This interview was live at 8:20 AM on Sunday, April 21st. And here’s a segment for the noon CBS 5 news on Monday, Feb 22nd

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Samsung introduces Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge

February 21, 2016

CNET Coverage Samsung is bringing back the flash — expandable memory, that is Galaxy S7 is Samsung’s ‘greatest hits’ phone: Last year’s design with better features (hands-on) Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge: Bigger, better, just as […]

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Fighting back against online harassment and cyberbullying

February 11, 2016

We hear a lot about online harassment and cyberbullying and, indeed, it is a serious problem for both kids and adults. It’s hard to know just how many people have been affected by various forms […]

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Monica Lewinksy’s new emoji anti-bullying app and Safer Internet Day in Hollywood

February 8, 2016

    Monica Lewinsky learned a lot about online harassment and cyberbullying after her much-publicized relationship with President Bill Clinton in the nineties. She has bravely spoken out in a TedTalk and, just released an iOS […]

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Harvard Laws School report says law enforcement worries over encryption may be exaggerated

February 1, 2016

Here is the full report from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School which found that: End-to-end encryption and other technological architectures for obscuring user data are unlikely to be adopted ubiquitously […]

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