Month: November 2012

by Larry Magid This post fist appeared in the San Jose Mercury News By all accounts, the online holiday sales season got off to a good start. Tracking companies reported big increases for this year’s […]

Please see my Forbes.com post: Syria Shuts Off Internet: But Can Assad Really Block Information Flow?  

by Larry Magid This post fist appeared in the San Jose Mercury News I’m not ready to write an obituary for Microsoft, but from what I’ve seen lately, things don’t look promising. This is not […]

There are a lot of great Black Friday deals out there on phones but before you make a two-year commitment (almost all require you sign a contract), make sure it’s the right phone for you.  When […]

This article is a work in progress and subject to revision By Larry Magid “Authority, given its common style, becomes increasingly incapable of commanding respect from the young for any reason save the fear on […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News A lot has been written about cyberbullying and I’ve seen some articles claiming that cyberbullying is more prevalent and more severe than […]

  CNET News describes ransomeware “as an online extortion racket.”  Malicious software puts a notice on your computer that you have to pay a fine to unlock your computer. It could even appear to come […]

by Larry Magid This post fist appeared in the San Jose Mercury News I’m writing from Baku, Azerbaijan, where I’m speaking at the Internet Governance Forum, a United Nations conference for representatives of governments, industry […]

by Larry Magid (Baku, Azerbaijan)  I arrived in this former Soviet republic on Saturday night ahead of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) that gets underway on Tuesday. The IGF is a United Nations sponsored “multi-stakeholder” […]

From a hardware perspective Google’s new Nexus 10 tablet compares favorably to the new full-sized Apple iPad with Retina display.  The Nexus 10 is thinner and lighter, has a higher resolution screen and is $100 cheaper. Of course hardware doesn’t […]