Month: January 2015

In the past several years, Microsoft has become the Rodney Dangerfield of the tech world. It just doesn’t get much respect. Even though Microsoft remains the 800-pound gorilla when it comes to computer operating systems […]

CBS News Technology Analyst Larry Magid speaks with Rick Smolan, the photographer who covered Robyn Davidson during part of her epic solo journey across the Australian outback. Davidson’s saga was turned into a movie called […]

As you walk around the parking lot, garage and labs at Ford’s newly opened Silicon Valley Research Center, you see plenty of cars and trucks along with all sorts of electronic gear. But there are […]

Microsoft HoloLens could be described as a cross between Google Glass, Facebook’s Oculus VR virtual reality headset and the movie Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise. Like Google Glass and Oculus rift it’s a type of […]

A lot of people scratched their heads when Facebook invested a billion dollars to buy Instagram in 2012. But, based on the results of a recent survey from Pew Research, it now looks like quite […]

CBS News technology analyst Larry Magid talks with Zahra Billoo from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) about how extremists are using social media to recruit and how her group and others in the Muslim community […]

Facebook and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) are teaming up to put Amber Alerts about missing children on Facebook News Feeds, but only for Facebook members in the targeted search area for […]

It seems as if almost every exhibitor at CES was showing things that connect to other things. LG showed off washing machines and kitchen appliances that send messages to smartphones. Schlage announced a Bluetooth-enabled smart […]

CBS News Technology Analyst Larry Magid speaks with Brian Krzanich, the CEO of Intel who had earlier given a CES Keynote on Intel’s current and future tech plans. During the chat, Krzanich touches on wearable […]

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