Larry Magid at Large

Survey: Teens 'sext' and post personal info

Larry Magid — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:54:00 PDT

An Internet safety study (PDF) just released by Cox Communications shows that teens may be a bit more safety conscious than previously thought.

The survey, which was done by Harris Interactive, asked 655 13- to 18-year-olds about their online and cell phone behavior, specifically addressing issues of cyberbullying and sexting. ...

Kids cheating with tech but are schools cheating kids?

Larry Magid — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:32:00 PDT

The results of a survey showing that 35 percent of middle school and high school students with cell phones have used them to cheat at school is indeed alarming. And perhaps more alarming is the finding that nearly a quarter of the students don't even think it's cheating....

Internet safety messages - one size does not fit all

Larry Magid — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:39:00 PDT

One problem with most of today's Internet safety messaging campaigns is that there is only one set of messages for the entire population of youth and parents. But, an extensive literature review conducted by the Internet Safety Technical Task Force Research Advisory Board found that "not all youth are

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Podcast: Apple VP Greg Joswiak on iPhone 3G S

Larry Magid — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:20:00 PDT

The day before the release of the iPhone 3G S, Greg Joswiak, Apple Vice President of iPod and iPhone Worldwide Marketing, spoke with CBS News technology analyst and CNET blogger Larry Magid about the new phone and the new OS 3 operating system that is also available free to existing iPhone users.

Joswiak talked about the new features of the phone, the new parental controls (Joswiak said they do not allow parents to block specific websites) and why Apple thinks that a lot of existing iPhone users will want to upgrade.

The interview runs 8 minutes, 11 seconds

Listen now: Download today's podcast

Teen online safety mostly about behavior

Larry Magid — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:28:00 PDT

In 1994, when I wrote Child Safety on the Information Highway, the first widely disseminated Internet safety publication, I advised parents not to let kids put personal information or photos online and--because of what turned out to be an exaggerated fear of predators--I urged them to avoid online conversations with

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Bing modified to enable porn filtering

Larry Magid — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:05:00 PDT

After plenty of coverage about how its Bing search engine makes it all too easy for kids to find and view porn, Microsoft has made some changes that will make it easier for parents to block or monitor what their kids are viewing on the site.

In a blog post, ...

Microsoft offers unworkable solution to Bing porn

Larry Magid — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:02:00 PDT

As I pointed out in an earlier post, searching for certain terms on Microsoft's new Bing.com search engine brings up videos that display hardcore porn within the Web site and because the porn is playing within Bing instead of the site where it's hosted, the videos are ...

Podcast: Palm Exec on how Pre is unique

Larry Magid — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:13:00 PDT

The Palm Pre is probably the most highly anticipated tech product of the year, and, finally, people are starting to get their hands on it. A few days before the launch, I spoke with Paul Cousineau, Palm's director of product management for WebOS. Listen to what he had to say.

Listen now: Download today's podcast

Norton can't block Bing porn

Larry Magid — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:35:00 PDT

As a followup to my post from Tuesday about the ability for someone to view porn from within Bing, I just heard from a Symantec spokesperson that the company's Internet monitoring and filtering service, OnlineFamily.Norton (review), can't yet prevent Bing users from searching sexually explicit terms for ...

Parents beware: Bing previews video porn

Larry Magid — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:00:00 PDT

Microsoft's new Bing search engine has a highly touted feature that some parents may find troublesome. Bing's video search tool has a preview mode that lets you view and listen to part of a video simply by hovering over it with your mouse. Trouble is, it works with ...