Year: 2011

CNET news is reporting that regulators are investigating whether Facebook’s photo-tagging service violates European law.  The “tag suggestion” service that Facebook introduced in the United States in December is now being introduced “in most countries,” […]

I don’t have any inside information about Apple’s long-term operating system plans, but I’m starting to wonder if “Lion,” the next version of OS X, might be the last version. I could be wrong, but […]

I was optimistic but a little incredulous as I watched Microsoft’s Windows President Steven Sinofsky and corporate Vice President Julie Larson-Green demonstrate Windows 8 at The Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital conference in Rancho Palos […]

HIT REFRESH FOR LATEST UPDATES Steve Jobs opened it up but turned it over immediately to VP Phil Schiller who is talking about Mac and the new Lion operating system. Lion is a major release with more […]

by Larry Magid Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif — In addition to admitting the obvious that he “screwed up” during his tenure as Google CEO by allowing Facebook to run away with social networking, Google’s incoming […]

When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton reportedly said, “because that’s where the money is.” Although he later denied saying that, the quote endures and is applied to both legitimate businesses and criminal enterprises, […]

Rebecca VanderMeulen just wrote an excellent article on Education.com titled Is Your Child Spending Too Much Time on Facebook? She interviewed me for the story along with Monica Vila, founder and Chief Technology Mom of  The […]

11 Best Travel Apps (AOL) Apple iPhone Apps for Traveling (from Apple) Travelers learn there’s an App for that (MSNBC) 10 Essential travel Apps you should download before taking off (Business Insider) FlightTrack (Mobiata)

by Larry Magid This article first appeared in the 5/23/11 edition of the San Jose Mercury News There’s quite a bit of conflict and confusion over a proposed California bill that would require social networking sites to […]

The iPad 2 may be on backorder for consumers, but Apple doesn’t seem to have any shortage of them when it comes to its own uses. On Sunday, the company started using the popular tablet […]