Articles by larry

by Larry Magid Netflix shares stumbled in after-hours trading Tuesday after the Los Gatos-based company reported that it added only 530,000 new streaming customers while losing 850,000 customers who had been renting DVDs. I don’t […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News By Larry Magid It doesn’t take four computers to write a newspaper column but, just to prove a point, that’s what I’m doing as I try out […]

The Internet Defense League, a coalition of companies and individuals worried about government regulation of the Internet will project a cat symbol in the skies of San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C., London and the Mongolian […]

Google’s YouTube has launched a feature to allow people to automatically blur faces that appear in videos.  The technology could, literally, be a life saver for activists in some parts of the world who could […]

(This post is adapted from Larry’s Daily News column of July 18, 2012) by Larry Magid Like other engineers at Facebook, Arturo Bejar, a mathematician by training, is helping to build new products to encourage […]

Adapted from an article that first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid A lot was written about the DNSChanger scare last week, including several articles about how over-hyped it was. I tried to […]

by Larry Magid How to Create (use use) Strong & Unique Passwords from ConnectSafely This article was updated from one that appears on ConnectSafely.org after the Yahoo password breach on July 12, 2012 A strong and confidential password is essential, […]

Here’s an interesting slide show with some data about how teens (and adults too) are using social networking, cell phones and other technologies. And here’s a summary from CNET. Teens 2012: Truth, Trends, and Myths […]

This article first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Monday, July 9, 2012 by Larry Magid Whether it’s one of Apple’s (AAPL) little MacBook Air laptops or one of the growing number of small ultrabooks running Microsoft […]

It’s hard to know if the media and security experts overreacted with warnings or if those warnings are what prevented a major problem but very few people were knocked offline as a result of the […]