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Next BizWeek Column: Why Teens Love Apple

Posted by anastasia | 06/29/07 | No Comments

In the midst of iPhone hysteria, I am working on my next BusinessWeek Online Viewpoint column on why teens fell in love with Apple (iPod + great iPod marketing). Teens are now as rabid about the brand as hardcore Macheads.…

New Video Services: Where Will Youth Go?

Posted by chet | 01/17/07 | 1 Comment

Seventeen days in, and 2007 has seen four big innovations in how people can watch video : AppleTV, Xbox IPTV (launching at Holiday), Joost and NetFlix Watch Now. This is going to be an amazing year, I reckon. Amazing for viewers anyway,…

Capitalism, You Gotta Love It

Posted by anastasia | 01/31/06 | No Comments

This is just funny. Here we are in the midst of all of this media hoopla around teens and Myspace and online porn and filtering software. Article after article is being written featuring interviews with "cybersafety" experts telling parents to…

Will the Newest Gaming Consoles Eat Your PC for Breakfast?

Posted by karell | 01/06/06 | 1 Comment

"Over the next 12 months, the most powerful piece of technology in the home is likely to be the games console in the living room, rather than the PC in the bedroom." So starts an article on BBC News about gaming…

iPod Poetry Lessons

Posted by anastasia | 01/06/06 | No Comments

I was really excited to find this piece on USA Today's site about how some teachers are beginning to embrace using technology as a teaching tool. The story talked about iPods, handhelds, educational games and blogging. I'm hoping this is the…

How's My Driving?

Posted by anastasia | 01/06/06 | 3 Comments

This week the big CES show has been happening in Vegas and is being covered everywhere. It still amazes me that a show where big companies like Yahoo! and Google making "serious announcements" still features scantily clad "booth babes." I…

The Digital Generation Gap

Posted by anastasia | 10/24/05 | No Comments

The New York Times, reg. required, has joined the chorus of newspapers exploring the new digital divide that now exists between teens and their parents as parents grapple with their teens spending lots of time online. The parents interviewed for this…

The Disconnected Generation

Posted by anastasia | 10/06/05 | No Comments

Most of the talk about teens and technology is about how connected teens are via the Internet, phones, instant messaging, texting, etc., and about how they are masters of multi-tasking (IMing while researching for a homework assignment online, talking on…

The Digital Student

Posted by anastasia | 08/03/05 | No Comments

The New York Times, reg. required, offers a special back-to-school tech section. There's actually a lot of substance there — unlike similar sponsored sections that are more of a straight buyer's guide. One piece stood out to me though — it's…

From the Ypulse WTF Files

Posted by anastasia | 06/29/05 | No Comments

Thirteen teenagers face felonies for tampering with their school laptops. From the article:

"According to parent testimony and confirmed by an otherwise vaguely-worded letter from the Kutztown Police Department, students got hold of the system's secret administrative password and reconfigured their…