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Review: Samsung Galaxy S4 Is the Kitchen Sink of Smartphones

[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 […]

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Study: Home Routers Easy to Hack

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 […]

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Why I Hate Travel Agencies

(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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How Tech Helps and Harms Our Environment

This post is adapted and expanded from one that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid Update: Click below to listen to Larry’s 1-minute CBS News segment with author Frances Moore Lappé [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/89066443″ […]