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Facebook is taking another poke at the disappearing photo market with a new app for iOS and Android called Slingshot. Like Snapchat and Facebook’s Poke, an ill-fated Snapchat clone, Slingshot photos don’t stick around forever […]

by Larry Magid This post originally appeared in the San Jose Mercurty News I took the train between New York and Washington, D.C., last week and, for the most part, it moved swiftly between the two […]

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by Larry Magid This column first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News I was both underwhelmed and impressed with the new versions of OS X for the Mac and iOS 8 for iPhone and […]

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Sears, the 121 year-old retailer, is making a decidedly modern move by introducing “Connected Solutions” shops within some of its stores to “bring together one of the most authoritative assortments of smart, connected home and personal […]

At its World Wide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple unveiled the latest versions of its operating systems for its Macintosh computers and its iPhone and iPad mobile devices. Like polishing the silver or painting the […]

At the Code conference in Rancho Palos Verdes last week, Aether co-founder Duncan Lamb showed off a new speaker called Cone that connects to your home wireless network to stream music and other audio.  So […]

The European Union Court of Justice ruling about the “right to be forgotten” is more wrong than right. Of course I sympathize  with the individual who pressed the claim — a Spanish citizen who was upset […]