Month: January 2012

This post appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on January 29, 2012 by Larry Magid Many people are celebrating the “people’s victory” that derailed, at least temporarily, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House […]

OK I’m biased, but my son Will Magid is an awesome musician and he’s about to come out with an album from the new Will Magid Trio. He’s also on the verge of a major concert, Will […]

As my fellow CNET News blogger Chris Matyszczyk pointed out in a recent post,  Slovokian violinist Lukas Kmit found a way to acknowledge an annoying cell phone that rang during a concert, without missing a […]

by Larry Magid At its F8 developer’s conference in September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that users would be able to display data from apps on their Facebook Timeline. Partners immediately launched a handful of apps, including one that […]

Knowing that Wikipedia would go dark for 24 hours in protest to SOPA and PIPA, I took the precaution of printing it out last night. Just kidding. Wikipedia is huge. I wanted to say just […]

As you may have heard, Zappos announced that it experienced a data breach on Sunday. In an email to customers, the online shoe and clothing retailer that’s owned by Amazon said “there may have been illegal and unauthorized […]

This post appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on January 16, 2012 by Larry Magid As I walked around the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, I was struck by how the mobile phone […]

Scroll down for step-by-step instructions to turn off personal search Earlier this week Google announced that search is going “social,” so that what you find when you do a Google search will be influenced by what your […]

I’m old-enough to remember when Americans looked forward to new car models to marvel at the latest designs, features and oomph thatDetroit engineered into our cars. Those days ended sometime in the seventies when cars — […]