Tyler Clementi’s death is a call to action
by Larry Magid This post originally appeared on CNET News.com 18 year-old Tyler Clementi took his own life after his roomate aledgedly live streamed his kissing another man [...]
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Tyler Clementi: A Deadly Consequence of Cyberbullying
A Guest Editorial By Warren Blumenfeld Warren Blumenfeld (Credit: Iowa State University) Friends described Tyler Clementi as a gentle, kind, and sensitive person who was an [...]
Report: 95% of Email is Spam: Threats Aimed at Facebook & Children’s Searches
55% of malware are Trojans (Source: Panda Labs) Panda Labs 3rd Quarter 2010 threat report (PDF) found that 95% of all email is spam. It also said that Trojans constituted [...]
Digital Citizenship Includes Rights as Well as Responsibilities
by Larry Magid (this article was originally posted in November, 2011 but updated in May, 2013) A lot of people have been talking about “digital citizenship” [...]
New rules upgrade broadband for schools and libraries
by Larry Magid This article originally appeared in the San Jose Mercury News The Federal Communications Commission last week approved new rules for the E-Rate program that [...]
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook Privacy & Kids on Facebook
On May 26, 2010 Facebook announced sweeping changes to its privacy policies. On that day, SafeKids.com founder Larry Magid sat down with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to [...]
Experts say Stuxnet worm could be state-sponsored (podcast)
by Larry Magid This article first appeared on CNET News.com Worm goes after power plants, pipelines and other facilities The Stuxnet computer worm that may have been designed [...]
FCC Modernizes E-Rate for Schools and Libraries
It’s time to modernize school technology (Credit: London School of Economics, 1981 — via Flickr Creative Commons) The Federal Communications Commission on [...]
FCC Chair on E-Rate and Net Neutrality
by Larry Magid September 23, 2010 (this article originally appeared on CNET News.com) As chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski is playing a [...]
McAfee: Our shortened URLs are safer (post + podcast)
by Larry Magid Anyone who has used Twitter has seen those shortened URLs from TinyURL.com, Bitly, and other such services. The advantage of those shortened URLs is that they [...]
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