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Until last January, I was happily carrying a Lenovo X300 lightweight notebook PC but decided it was time to get a MacBook Air and, until today, I hadn’t looked back. But now that I have my hands on Lenovo’s […]

There are lots of companies that build Internet filtering products and while most do a pretty good job of keeping kids away from porn, none are perfect.  MetaCert,which claims to have labelled nearly 630 million […]

I’m not going to tell you that a high-end LCD TV isn’t better than a cheap one, but the difference in quality may not be worth the difference in price. I’ve reviewed TVs from several manufacturers including […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid I’m suffering from information overload and I’m not alone. A recent report from McKinsey & Company found that the average knowledge worker spends about […]

by Larry Magid The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a revised set of proposed rules (PDF) regarding the implementation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). When implemented, this will be the first time the FTC […]

ComScore is out with its latest smart phone marketshare report. For details, visit my Forbes blog.

Microsoft is in the process of killing-off its much maligned Hotmail web-based email and  replacing it with Outlook.com. Outlook is the name of Microsoft’s email application that’spart of the Microsoft Office suite which is heavily […]

If you look up your address in Google Maps, there’s a chance that you’ll see your car parked out in front, assuming you’re on one of the many routes captured by Google street view. These […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid A recent survey by Opinion Matters on behalf of GFI Software found that many people don’t fully understand how to protect their data and […]