Month: May 2012

Tune in live on Monday, May 28th at 7:00 PM Pacific (10 PM ET) for  Panetta Lecture series  with Vincent Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google; Arianna Huffington, President and Editor-in-Chief with the AOL Huffington Post Media Group; and Larry Magid, CBS News and […]

by Larry Magid This article first appeared in the Monday, May 28, 2012 San Jose Mercury News “The IPO I care about is the Incredible Potential Opportunity that awaits us all in this brave new […]

by Larry Magid This article first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News I was an Android user for years and still have several Android devices. But last October I bought an iPhone 4S and […]

In a recent survey of American college students, 74% said that if a potential employer or graduate school received their online activity, it would “make no difference either way when it came to their chances of […]

Sprint, the distant third carrier behind Verizon and AT&T is trying to capitalize on disgruntled Verizon iPhone users who are unhappy that AT&T will soon eliminate unlimited data plans. Read more at Forbes.com

by Larry Magid This article first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News There has been a lot of debate and hand wringing over whether the Internet and social media have redefined “privacy,” but while […]

Facebook has made some changes to what it calls its “data use policy,” which is essentially the same as its privacy policy. The company has also added a  “Facebook Terms and Policies” hub that serves […]

Facebook, like all sites with user content, has had to battle against people using the service to post and distribute illegal child pornography.  In my CNET News post, I try to put the issue in perspective and […]

This column first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid A few days ago, I attended Imagine K12‘s “demo day” where a group of startups in the education space pitched their companies to potential […]

I have a key fob or “clicker” as most people call them, that helps me find my car in a parking lot by beeping the horn but I’ve often wished it were the other way […]