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Goodbye, Desktop. Hello, Apps
If you’re not reading this on your smartphone or tablet, you will be soon. We’re in the midst of a revolution in digital media, and a new report offers two striking findings: Most of us are using...
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AARP Debuts RealPad Tablet
AARP debuted its first-ever consumer product at the Ideas@50+ conference in San Diego last month. Called RealPad, it’s bigger than a smartphone yet smaller than a laptop computer. The tablet was...
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Why You’re Probably Watching More Cat Videos, Less TV
Watching more videos on YouTube and Facebook and a bit less television? If so, you’re not alone. In a report released Sept. 8, the Nielsen ratings folks report that people ages 50 to 64 have increased...
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Apple Enters the Health Gizmo Market With New Watch
Half of Apple’s announcement Sept. 9 was predictable: The iPhone 6 and 6 plus are bigger, faster, more powerful and slimmer than previous iPhones. Prices on older models have plunged and the new phones...
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Have Efforts to Create a Do-Not-Track List Derailed?
The brightly colored running shoes stare back at me from my computer screen. They’ve been following me from website to website — ever since I clicked on them while browsing an online store the week...
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Give Yourself the Gift of Time: Unsubscribe
Do you return to work from holidays and vacations to find dozens or hundreds of emails? I do, but I’m doing something about it: I’m unsubscribing from any email I don’t actually want or need. I figure...
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Smartphone app for the Hearing Impaired
I used to have perfect hearing, although I could select what I didn’t want to hear. But now that I’m getting older, I am becoming more concerned about my hearing. I am also a recent cancer survivor,...
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Who Will Tend Your Memory on Facebook?
A couple of years ago at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, I met a guy in a superhero costume promoting his start-up, which he cheekily called Dead Social. His company’s mission...
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Catching Up With Techno Grandparents and Grandkids
Heiriss Flood, 10, and her grandmother Casandra Smith, 64. Think video games and what comes to mind? Kids or teens with electronic devices locked into a screen. But guess what? The average age of...
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AARP Expands Reach to Close Tech Gap Among Older Adults
It seems unbelievable that in 2015 there are so many Americans who don’t use the Internet. A recent Washington Post article describes why this is the case. Of the next six adults you meet, chances are...
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