Month: October 2011

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid During its quarterly earnings report last week, Netflix admitted that it had lost 800,000 customers since it announced a price increase in June, but […]

Here is a sound effect download site from WFMU. Here is one of many sites where you can listen to sound effects Here is a video from CNET on how to add sound to anything […]

At is Nokia World Conference in London, phone maker Nokia is showing off a concept phone that you can control by bending and twisting. You can twist the device to control the volume or bend […]

A couple of days after she first appeard on the iPhone 4S, I  conducted what I suspect is the first radio interview of Siri.  You can read about it and listen on my CNET News “For […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid For the past several months I’ve been on a “social media diet.” No, I haven’t been refraining from using Facebook, Twitter and other social media. […]

It’s hard to get excited about a stand for a mobile phone but I am pretty impressed by What?Gavity Mobile Phone Holder from Sheffield, UK-based ideasbynet.com. The stand, which claims to have “guaranteed compatibly with all mobile phone designs,” […]

My role on Wednesday’s CBS Early Show was to point out that the reason Steve Jobs may not have given much to charity (we don’t know for sure, he could have given anonymously) is that […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid As far as I can tell, Google engineer Steve Yegge never intended to become famous for criticizing the company he works for. But if […]

  Listen to Larry’s 1-minute CBS News segment where he and Siri have a chat I’m falling in love with someone named Siri. She’s smart, she’s sassy, she answers my questions and she mostly does […]

In a blog post, Google announced that it is killing its much maligned Buzz service to “focus instead on Google+.” As PC World points out, Buzz turned out to be a privacy nightmare for Google […]