Year: 2011

“The servers that house Twitter, Facebook and BlackBerry Messenger don’t have a political, social or legal agenda. Their job is simply to transmit what people post and deliver it to people who want to see […]

An anniversary for me, too On August 12, 1981, IBM introduced its first personal computer known as the IBM PC.  I remember it well because I wrote the EasyWriter manual to accompany the word processing program that […]

by Larry Magid Depending on one’s perspective, Twitter and Facebook have been credited and blamed for helping to organize uprisings in Egypt, Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East.  But. when it comes to the riots in London, even though […]

    This article first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on August 8, 2011 by Larry Magid Technology makes it possible for us to be in touch with people all around the world, […]

The FBI has released a simple iPhone app, called the Child ID App, that can store information about your children and send it to authorities in the unlikely event they go missing. Parents fill out […]

    by Larry Magid This article appeared in the August 1, 2011 edition of the San Jose Mercury News Like many of you reading this, I have to deal with a constant barrage of emails […]

There are plenty of ways to bring Internet content to a TV set but, with the exception of PCs and Macs, they all have their limitations. One limit is the fact that some content providers […]

The world’s largest retailer is now in the business of streaming movies and TV shows. About 18 months ago, Walmart acquired Vudu and today the retailer integrated Vudu into Walmart.com, allowing users to stream TV […]

Listen to Larry’s 1-minute CBS News segment on 3D phones For the past few weeks I’ve been using the HTC Evo 3D from Sprint and while it’s a perfectly good phone, the 3D function is […]

by Larry Magid This story first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News I recently wrote about the video “hangout” feature in Google+, but I didn’t talk about the service in general, its other features […]