May 26, 2013
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Monitoring kids’ Facebook is so 2009
WASHINGTON — After Friendster came MySpace. By the time Facebook dominated social media, parents had joined the party, too. But the online scene has changed - dramatically, as it turns out - and th...
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Tech Q&A
QUESTION: I’m planning a trip to the interior of Alaska, including some remote villages, and I want to be able to send emails and transmit digital photos back to friends and family. I’m told that s...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Anton Andrews, director office envisioning at Microsoft, stands in the home area of the Envisioning Center where there is a digital whiteboard.
Microsoft helps envision home, office of the future
SEATTLE — Put a skillet on your stove as you prepare to make a stir-fry, and an interactive chef on the big screen in your kitchen tells you a wok would probably work better. Take a sketch of so...
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QUESTION: In early February, our Comcast service went out, affecting our TV, phone and computer connections for about five minutes. Since then I can’t send emails from Windows Live Mail. However, I...
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QUESTION: Can my group of 10, all of whom have the Voxer smartphone application, communicate “walkie-talkie” style on Allure of the Seas cruise ship in the Caribbean? —Leon Cohen, Minneapoli...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
News Feed getting a facelift
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook has redesigned its social network to address complaints that the News Feed on its website has turned into a jumble of monotonous musings and random photos. In an at...
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Wearing the future
A wristwatch that reads your text messages out loud, a jacket that heats up when you’re cold, eyeglasses that display directions as you walk down the street. Gimmicks, or fashion of the future? ...
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Readers to the rescue! Several readers say there’s a better solution for the mother of a hearing-impaired daughter who wants to text friends via an Apple iPad. I pointed out in last week’s colum...
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QUESTION: My daughter, who is hearing-impaired, has been told that she can text from an iPad. Is this possible? My daughter also wants to take the iPad outside her building, which doesn’t have W...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Comcast XFinity home customer Larry Schweber is able to watch TV shows remotely through his iPad or turn on his alarm, view video camera angles or turn on lights from his smartphone as part of the all-digital security monitoring system at his Atlanta home.
Technology monitors home from phone
ATLANTA — Every day Larry Schweber can see his 8-year-old daughter come home from school, even while he’s at work. He gets a text message with a video clip every time someone walks through the fron...
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