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Windows 7 = Vista Upgrade
I don’t know why it took so long, but Microsoft has finally fixed Vista. Only it isn’t calling it Vista. Instead the company is working on what it’s calling a new version of Windows, Windows […]
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Net safer for kids than thought
by Larry Magid reposted from CNET.com A long awaited report from the Internet Safety Technical Task Force concludes that children and teens are less vulnerable to sexual predation than many have feared. The report also questions […]
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Palm Pre First Impressions
One of the biggest surprises of CES was Palm’s Pre smart phone that some are calling an iPhone killer. While I don’t expect this or anything else to kill the iPhone, it does appear that […]
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CES: Damn the calories, pass the egg rolls
The first event at the Consumer Electronics Show, called CES Unveiled, actually takes place a couple of days before the show officially opens. The press reception, which is sponsored by CES’ host organization, the Consumer […]
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Watching TV from your Blackberry
I just returned from riding around in a car watching live TV on my Blackberry. Research in Motion hasn’t added a TV tuner to any of its popular Blackberry devices but Sling Media just introduced […]
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Looking back at 2008 in tech
by Larry Magid No earth-shattering new technologies emerged in 2008, but it was an eventful year. It was a year of definition for high-def TV, because Toshiba in February dropped its support for its HD […]
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Acer netbook – cheap and small
I was not surprised when iSuppli announced that notebook sales exceeded desktop sales for the first time in the third quarter of this year in what the research company called a “watershed event.” The report […]
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Follow Santa on Google Maps and Twitter
by Anne Collier NetFamilyNews.org If your family celebrates Christmas, you can track Santa’s global progress on Christmas Eve, thanks to Web 2.0! You can get minute-by-minute reports on Twitter’s noradsanta feed. As I write, Santa […]
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Parents – keep family PCs secure
News that Microsoft had to issue an emergency patch to fix a flaw in all versions of Internet Explorer reminds me how important it is for parents to make sure that all the computers in […]
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Blogging from 30,000 feet
I’m on a Virgin America flight about an hour west of Washington DC as I chat with a friend via instant messaging, update my Facebook page, send little notes on Twitter, watch streaming web video […]