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[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/102197274″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] The Wall Street Journal, reports that roughly 1 in 5 Korean students are addicted to their smartphones. But the problem isn’t limited to Korea. Last year Time magazine reported the results […]

This post is apapted from one that appeared in the San Jose Mercury New by Larry Magid AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have recently announced plans that let people upgrade their phones more often. But before you get […]

Listen to Larry Magid’s CBS News/CNET Tech Talk about this subject [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/101217650″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] By now you’re probably familiar with tracking cookies – tiny little files stored on your device […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News By Larry Magid It was fitting that IBM and Sprint picked July 10 to announce a new platform to integrate drivers’ mobile devices with vehicle systems. It […]

Some people, according to a recent poll, are so addicted to their cell phones that they use them while having sex, while at church, on a dinner date and — at some peril to the […]

AT&T is changing its privacy policy with two new “programs,” that involve the the sale of customer data. One program will sell businesses “anonymous information about groups of customers, such as how they collectively use our products and […]

If you hang around Silicon Valley or go to tech conferences you’re bound to see someone wearing an eye glass frame with a tiny little monitor above their right eye.  That’s Google GOOG +0.97% Glass, Google’s experiment in wearable, […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News By Larry Magid Sometimes I worry we’re becoming a culture of technology consumers, instead of creators. I don’t expect everyone to be designing the next electric vehicle, […]

Mailstrom, which is a free web-based service, makes it easy to sort, categorize and deal with your mail. It works with Gmail, and other IMAP 3 mail services (but not with all corporate email services). […]

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