Is the Telephone an Endangered Species?
The telephone as we know it — or at least as we adults knew it — may soon be a thing of the past. I’m not talking ab0ut smartphones – they’re really not phones, but pocket-sized […]
The telephone as we know it — or at least as we adults knew it — may soon be a thing of the past. I’m not talking ab0ut smartphones – they’re really not phones, but pocket-sized […]
Adapted from a column that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on March 19, 2012 By Larry Magid When I was a kid, it was common for door-to-door salesmen to pitch the Encyclopaedia Britannica […]
I always thought that the iPad 2 had a great screen — until I got my hands on the new (3rd generation) iPad. Now, all of a sudden the text and graphics on that “old” […]
Reporters Without Borders is out with its annual list of countries it calls “Enemies of the Internet.” New to the list are Bahrain and Belarus. Others include Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, […]
Adapted from a column that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on March 12, 2012 by Larry Magid I came to the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar to moderate a social media panel at […]
I’ve always known that technology brings about both good and bed unintended consequences, but here’s one I never considered. Dr. Robert K. Sigal, a Washington DC-area board-certified plastic surgeon claims that Facetime encouages people to […]
This post appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on February 27, 2012 by Larry Magid I might be overly optimistic, but I hope this will be remembered as the month digital privacy rights finally […]
Some people are worried that on March 1st, Google will begin consolidating information across its many products. That means that any information you enter in one product, say YouTube, can be combined with information from other Google […]
The recent revelations that some iPhone and Android apps are uploading and storing users’ phone address books without permission is very troubling. It not only violates the privacy of the person using the phone but, […]
by Larry Magid It’s too early to know if either of these will make a difference, but back-to-back announcements from the California Attorney General and the White House give me some hope that we may […]
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