Year: 2019

By Larry Magid Verizon announced that it’s rolling out its 5G super-fast cellular service in Minneapolis and Chicago, with about 30 more cities to be announced later in 2019. But before you move to the […]

Apple TV Plus will feature original content from, among others, the celebrities who showed up at Monday’s announcement, including Reese Witherspoon, J.J. Abrams, Jennifer Aniston, Steve Carell, Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg. […]

If you had a choice of making a lot of money selling premium hardware that people bought every couple of years or so vs. selling them a service that they pay for every month, which […]

He’d be better off using the platform to promote issues important to his constituency Based on a lawsuit he filed, Rep. Devin Nunes thinks he has a problem with Twitter. But it’s not really with […]

In response to litigation by the  National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Communication Workers of America (CWA) and other parties, Facebook is making changes to its ad policy to […]

by Larry Magid The messy thing about our First Amendment is that it protects nearly all speech, not just pleasant speech or even accurate speech. There have been no Supreme Court cases about our right […]

Anil Nanduri, general manager of Intel’s drone group, told CNET’s Stephen Shankland that “There will definitely be flights with flying cars in five years. At scale? Probably not. But definitely you’ll see them starting to […]

by Larry Magid The World Wide Web turns 30 this month, and you’re invited to its birthday party that will take place in Meyrin, Switzerland, London and Lagos, Nigeria over a 30-hour period starting March […]

Note: This is a work-in-progress, subject to editing and changes by Larry Magid Twenty-five years ago, in 1994, Ernie Allen, then the CEO of the National Center for Missing Children hired me to write a […]

Consumer Reports has dropped its coveted Recommended rating on the Tesla Model 3. Consumers Union published a blog post about the decision but — to find out more — I also interviewed that post’s author, Consumer Reports’ […]