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Free a Senior From Technology Hassles Today
Technology can help seniors without driving them crazy. You’ve just got to do a little friendly setup and send them on their way. After all, that’s part of the reason they had you in the first place....
View ArticleAre China’s Grandparents a Model for the US?
A guest column from Gary Kaye, founder of In the Boombox, and frequent contributor to AARP and AARP Radio. I just returned from a fascinating trip to China, where grandparents play a very different...
View ArticleComputing My Facebook Addiction
Wolfram Alpha is a search engine unlike any other. It’s called a computational search engine which, at the end of the day, means that you’re not searching for weblinks to other sites but rather getting...
View ArticleTrend Micro Focuses on Social Networking Protection
It’s a constant game of social networking leapfrog: the good guys versus the bad guys trying to scam you into someplace you shouldn’t be, leaving you and your family’s online security at jeopardy....
View ArticleMobileTrax Weighs in on Nokia’s New Lumia 920
Excerpted from Gerry Purdy’s MobileTrax column, the Nokia Lumia 920 may be just the ticket for its versatility. It incorporates speed, a back and front facing camera and an enhanced system that...
View ArticleReadWriteWeb’s Buying a Mobile Phone in Six Easy Steps
From dispelling the myth of the perfect phone to deciphering hardware specs, from looking at the apps running on each of the platforms to establishing which carrier is best in your area, ReadWriteWeb...
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A Bright Future for the High Tech Death Market
Death is on our minds, in part because the demographics are moving towards an aging population, and in part because dying is one really expensive process. In a $17 billion dollar a year business,...
View ArticleInternet: Opiate of the People?
Marx blamed religion. Nancy Regan blamed drugs. But the opiate du jour is the Internet. So check your dopamine at the screen. Two important trends are emerging as Internet behavior continues to go...
View ArticleCEA Executive Board Elects Three New Members to CEA Foundation Board of Trustees
10/19/2012| 03:29pm US/Eastern CEA Executive Board Elects Three New Members to CEA Foundation Board of Trustees Arlington, VA – 10/19/2012 – The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® Executive Board...
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Google Plus Grandma: How Smart Moms Survive In The Information Jungle by...
Laura Simpson is SVP, Global Director of McCann Truth Central at McCann Erickson and the author of this piece which first appeared on Engage: Moms published by Mediapost. Once upon a time we lived in...
View ArticleBoomers Upgrade to Windows 8
Microsoft’s new Windows 8 has been evaluated from many different angles, but what’s the benefit of the upgrade to those of us way-back Windows users? Gary Kaye, who will be hosting a panel at this...
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High Tech/Low Cost Gifts for the Older Folks in Your Life
Technology can be an older person’s best friend—keeping them connected when it may be difficult to get out, keeping them safe, keeping them entertained, and keeping them physically and mentally...
View ArticleHoliday Gifts for Boomers and Seniors
Our good friend, Susan Ayers Walker, who co-founded the Silvers Summit at CES, shares a few of her best gift ideas at one of our favorite sites, Techlicious:...
View ArticleTech Help for Aging’s Little Problems
Try as you might to stay looking and feeling your youngest, there’s no denying that eyesight, reflexes, memory, and hearing all reach a peak and then slowly slip. Irritating? Certainly. But technology...
View ArticleIntroducing Wellocracy at the 2013 Silvers Summit
Wellocrasy to launch at International CES 2013 Silvers Summit. Check it out: http://chealthblog.connected-health.org/2012/11/25/wellocracy-is-coming-watch-for-it/
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FabOverFifity recently put out their Holiday Gift Guide 2012, and Robin Raskin gets a mention in the Teen section for the AfterShokz Sportz M2 headphones.
View ArticleDigital Health and the Monitored Life
Want to know what to expect from the 2013 Digital Health Summit at CES? Read Robin Raskin’s blog for the Huffington Post for the inside scoop.
View ArticleGary Kaye: “The Day That Facebook Mattered”
Gary Kaye, creator of intheboombox.tv, lives in Newton, Connecticut and offers this poignant look at his community, and the larger Facebook community after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.
View ArticleThe 30th Anniversary of the Internet on Mashable
Mashable’s Andrea Smith interviews Google’s Chief Evangelist, Vinton Ceft, about driverless cars, mobile technology, and the 30th anniversary of the Internet. Read more here.
View ArticleComing Soon to Senior Living – the Consumer Electronics Show
Jack York is the CEO and co-founder of It’s Never Too Late. Here are his impressions of CES 2013. Remember being 10 years old, heading to Disneyland, (I grew up in Southern California so that’s my...
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