Articles by larry

I recently wrote about Snapchat, the popular photo sharing app that allows users to share photos that will self-destruct from between 1 and 10 seconds after they’re viewed.  As I said in that story, there […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News By Larry Magid We’re just a few weeks away from school letting out and — for lucky families — a chance to spend a bit of time […]

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Instagram today introduced its new “Photos of You” feature that allows users to tag people in photos (read more) Read this post at Forbes.com [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/90484471″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/90501039″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] With $7.5 million in start-up funds from Redpoint Ventures and some individual investors, Curious.com is open for business as a marketplace that allows teachers of all kinds to market […]

On April 30th, 1993, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced that it was creating the World Wide Web “to make an easy but powerful global information system” that  ”consists of documents referring to each other by […]

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/89928816″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Instead of Galaxy S4, Samsung should have called its new phone the KS 4, for “kitchen sink,” because when designing this phone, Samsung threw in “everything but the kitchen sink.” It […]

A report from Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) found “critical security vulnerabilities in numerous small office/home office (SOHO) routers and wireless access points.” The report categorized these remote locally accessible vulnerabilities as follows: Trivial attacks can be launched directly […]

I happend to be in New York on Earth Day and so was Frances Moore Lappé, the author of the 1971 environmental classic Diet for a Small Planet and the recent book  EcoMind: Changing the Way We […]