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Last week’s news about a new WiMax venture involving Sprint, Clearwire, Google, Intel and others could finally pave the way for a wireless networking system that’s not limited to a few hundred feet and – […]

By Larry Magid Reposted from San Jose Mercury News I’m happy to be a member of a recently formed Internet Safety Technical Task Force, but it has caused me to feel a bit of a […]

Istanbul, Turkey — I’m in a city that spans Asia and Europe yet I’m happily using cell phones from Sprint and Verizon Wireless. I’ve always thought of Sprint and Verizon as purely domestic carriers, serving […]

Listen to Larry’s CBS News Podcast with Google Sr. Scientist Shumeet Baluja and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children President Ernie Allen Working with law enforcement, analysts at the National Center for Missing and […]

Apple last week confirmed that iTunes had outpaced Wal-Mart in January and February as the nation’s No. 1 seller of music. The Apple announcement followed an earlier report by NPD Group that compared iTunes music […]

LIMITS OF FREE SPEECH ARE TESTED BY WEB SITE’S HURTFUL, HATEFUL POSTS By Larry Magid San Jose Mercury News The online gossip site JuicyCampus.com carries this slogan: “Always Anonymous . . . Always Juicy.”I’m a […]

Adorable: Laughing Baby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXXm696UbKY Nine-month-old Ethan falls over laughing – apparently ripping magazines is hilarious – and just can’t stop, igniting a laughing fit in his dad, too. It’s infectiously cute and earned Ethan a […]

Kids today live in an interactive “Web 2.0″ world where they socialize, post photographs and videos and share common experiences with friends, friends of friends and, in some cases, strangers. Millions of kids are doing […]

Call me old-fashioned but when it comes to making phone calls, I like buttons. Not virtual buttons and preferably not teeny-weeny PDA-size buttons. I’m happiest with an honest-to-goodness dial pad. I say that because I’ve […]

It was the Saturday night before the Oscars and my wife and I realized that there were several nominated movies we hadn’t seen yet. It was also a very rainy evening and we were in […]