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Video: Using a smart phone for eye exams

December 27, 2011

At a recent Boston TEDx Boston event, Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab,  spoke about a very inexpensive way to turn cell phones into eye exam machines […]

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Big 2011 Tech Stories About People, Not Products

December 26, 2011

This post appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on December 26, 2011 by Larry Magid There were plenty of gadgets shipped in 2011, but the big stories of the year were about the people who made […]

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Tour of Facebook’s New Headquarters in Meno Park, Calif.

December 22, 2011

I got a brief tour of Facebook’s new headquarters in Menlo Park, California today. The company took over the old Sun Microsystems building (there are still conference rooms with the Sun logo on the glass […]

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2012 could be the year of the Apple clones

December 19, 2011

This post appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on December 19, 2011 by Larry Magid Could 2012 be the year of the Apple clones? It seems likely based on what I expect to be announced at next month’s […]

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Facebook rolling out new profile: How to turn it on now

December 15, 2011

Facebook is finally rolling out the new profile that it announced in September. All users will get it sometime soon, but anyone can get it now (scroll down for link). In a blog post about […]

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Online Safety FAQ (From SafeKids.com)

December 14, 2011

Is my child at risk from online predators? Although it can happen, the risk of a child or teen being harmed by someone they met on the Internet is very low. There has been widespread […]

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Facebook empowers friends to prevent suicide

December 13, 2011

by Larry Magid When Anne Collier and I wrote our long out-of-print book,  MySpace Unraveled, we pointed out that MySpace was the largest referrer to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. We noted that kids were alive […]

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Can YouTube for Schools Usher Education into the 21st Century?

December 12, 2011

This post appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on December 12, 2011 by Larry Magid Listen to Larry Magid’s 1-minute CBS News Tech Talk segment about YouTube for Schools Google has launched a YouTube for […]

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OnLive Launches Console-Like Cloud Gaming on iPhone, iPad and Android

December 7, 2011

I’m not a gamer but I was impressed when OnLive CEO Steve Perlman showed me L.A. Noire and several other games running on an Android tablet over the Verizon 4G network. I also saw them running on […]

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Facebook should thank FTC for privacy settlement

December 5, 2011

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ought to consider adding members of the Federal Trade Commission to his holiday gift list. They wouldn’t be […]

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