Year: 2012

I bought an new third generation iPad because I really wanted to have the latest and undisputed greatest tablet on the market. I liked it, gave it a good review and couldn’t help but notice the dazzling […]

About a year ago, I jettisoned my relatively heavy Windows laptop for an 11-inch MacBook Air that weighs only 2.4 pounds that I favorably reviewed. Now Apple has some competitions from laptops ultralight laptops, called […]

The  inaugural Super Happy Block Party Hackathon took place in a converted art gallery and a parking garage in downtown Palo Alto, California where venture capitalists, startup companies and hackers (the good kind) got together to […]

Update (4:50 ET). Global Payments, Inc. has acknowledged that it “self identified and self-reported unauthorized access into a portion of its processing system.” Krebs on Security reported that MasterCard and Visa are alerating banks about a “massive” data breach  that “may […]

by Larry Magid After spending several days playing with the third-generation iPad, I put it aside and went back to using my Samsung Galaxy Tablet 10.1, my Kindle Fire and even my old original iPad […]

This is a press release from the University at Buffalo and not original content.  Listen to Larry Magid’s interview with Ifeoma Nwogu BUFFALO, N.Y. — Inspired by the work of psychologists who study the human face for […]

Adapted from a column that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on March 26, 2012 by Larry Magid To say Apple  is no ordinary company is a gross understatement. With a market capitalization (the total value […]

Are you hearing a bit too much from some of your Facebook friends. You can turn them into “acquaintances” which means you’ll hear from them less frequently. One way to do this is to visit […]

The telephone as we know it — or at least as we adults knew it — may soon be a thing of the past. I’m not talking ab0ut  smartphones – they’re really not phones, but pocket-sized […]

Adapted from a column that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on March 19, 2012 By Larry Magid When I was a kid, it was common for door-to-door salesmen to pitch the Encyclopaedia Britannica […]