Articles by larry

By Larry Magid (New York)  Having covered the PC industry since before the IBM PC was announced in 1981, I’ve seem more than my share of boring “beige boxes” and me-too laptops but — as […]

You can’t walk 10 meters at the giant IFA tech show in Berlin without seeing new Android phones and tablets. They’re everywhere. Some, like Acer’s CloudMobile S500, are from a design perspective, a big improvement over theApple iPhone.  Others, […]

I love the 55 inch 1080p TV in my normal-size living room, but if my house had a humongously large living room and I had an equally large bank account, I’d be first in line to buy Sony’s […]

(Berlin)  Lenovo introduced a new Android tablet with an optional keyboard/docking station that also extends its battery life to 20 hours, according to Lenovo spokesperson Thilo Huys. Scroll down for a video of Mr. Hoys demonstrating the […]

Samsung may have suffered a stunning legal defeat at the hands of Apple, but that didn’t stop the giant Korean company from unveiling new Android devices at the IFA trade show in Berlin, including a […]

At a packed press conference at its booth at IFA Berlin, Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai introduced several new products including three phones to be sold under the Xperia brand. The flagship of the line is the Xperia […]

by Larry Magid About 250,000 people are expected to descend on Berlin’s fairgrounds for IFA this week, to look at everything from smart phones to TV sets to refrigerators and washing machines.  IFA, which was once called […]

This post is adapted from one that first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid A good friend of mine runs a small guesthouse called Ernsts Hus in Mölle, a seaside village in southern […]