Year: 2011

by Larry Magid With an average salary of under $800 a year, Kenya is ranked near the bottom when it comes to per capita income. But, if Bitange Ndemo has his way, the country will […]

by Larry Magid I was on a plane returning from Kenya when the news of Steve Jobs’ death reached the world. Suspended between continents, I was blissfully unaware that we had just lost one of […]

Link to Larry Magid’s 1984 LA Times review of the first Mac (Courtesy Stanford University news service) On  June 12, 2005, Steve Jobs gave an address at Stanford the explained his attitudes towards life and […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid I’m in Nairobi, Kenya, this week to serve as a panelist at the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum (IGF). I’m not sure […]

Of course there is only one Steve Jobs but as I watched Mark Zucberberg give the keynote address at Facebook’s F8 developer’s conference last week, I couldn’t help but think about the many Jobs keynotes […]

Nairobi:  At the equivalent of $20 a day, Internet access at the Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi is actually pretty inexpensive as International hotels go.  A few weeks ago I paid $25 a day for […]

A new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life project found that 31% of Americans polled said they “preferred texts to talking on the phone.” The survey found that 83% of American adults own […]

Call me old fashioned but when I’m home or at an office, I like making and receiving phone calls from something that resembles a regular desk phone.  One thing I like about desk phones is that they’re […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid Remember the TV show “Friends”? These were people who knew each other well. They lived together, played together and shared happy and […]