Month: August 2011

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid A lot has been said and written about how Apple is likely to carry on without Steve Jobs at the helm. I have my opinions on […]

In an effort to make thing simpler and more obvious, Facebook is changing the way people control who has access to their posts, status updates, pictures and other content. The company is also changing tagging […]

This post is adapted from an article that first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid Last week I wrote about how some British politicians wanted BlackBerry maker Research In Motion to […]

A new study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project shows that 42% of Americans have used their cell phones to alleviate boredome and 13% have faked using their phone to avoid having to interact with […]

“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 […]