Month: September 2013

by Larry Magid This year marks my 30th anniversary as a newspaper technology columnist. It started in the summer of 1983, when I started writing “Computer File” for the Los Angeles Times. The Times syndicated […]

It’s been possible for awhile to run some apps in the background on an iPhone and other iOS devices but with  iOS 7, Apple extended that privilege to a broader range of apps. That can be good […]

Late Tuesday night Amazon announced a pair of new Kindle Fire HDX tablets with one incredibly useful feature and another one that’s useful, but maybe not incredibly so. What excites me is that Prime Instant video and TV shows […]

Android users can now lock their lost devices remotely (CNET News) Apple’s Find My iPhone, iPad and Mac

Microsoft’s Surface 2: Trying (again) to be cool CNET Hands-on Surface 2 CNET Hands-on Surface Pro 2 CNET First look at Surface 2 Pro

I usually don’t write about rumors, but reports that Google may be working on a replacement for tracking cookies is worth speculating about because it can have enormous implications when it comes to our online privacy. There […]

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/110988309″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] In an interview for CBS News Tech Talk (click above to listen), Houston Chronicle tech blogger Dwight Silverman recommended that users be sure they have lots of […]

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This post is adapted from one that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid There was a time when people got really excited about an Apple announcement. Back when they took place during […]

So, we had another spectacle at Apple, this time announcing the $99 iPhone 5C and the fancier and more expensive 5S. These are both good phones. The 5C, finally, represents Apple’s acknowledgement that it can […]