Articles by larry

This isn’t a biology lesson but a geographic analysis of the countries that are sending the most Tweets. As the chart shows, the United States and Brazil are heavy sources of Tweets, but there are also […]

Updated on Sunday July 8th at 8:20 PM ET Easy detection and fix As of Sunday night, about 46,000 computers  in the U.S. are infected with malicious software called DNSChanger, according to the Associated Press.  The number keeps declining. Last […]

It was a pretty big deal when Google announced iGoogle in 2005 but times they are a changing. Today Google announced that it will “retire” iGoogle along with four other products: the Google Mini, Google Talk Chatback, Google Video and its Symbian Search app. iGoogle isn’t […]

It’s not as elaborate or as long as the U.S. Declaration of Independence but the Declaration of Internet Freedom takes a strong stand to “keep the Internet free and open.”  The organizers are calling it an “international movement to defend […]

A lot of Facebook users are upset that the company arbitrarily changed their email address in its contact info section from their preferred address to their Facebook.com address.  About a year ago, Facebook assigned all of its […]

I got my hands on the first iPhone on June 29, 2007, and it was immediately obvious that it would forever change the mobile phone industry. I picked up my phone at exactly 6:00 PM […]

Attendees at the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco on Wednesday got quite a surprise when Google co-founder Sergey Brin said he wanted to show a pair of Google Glasses that he loaned to […]

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This article first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Monday, June 25, 2012 by Larry Magid I was sitting at home looking at the shelves that store our books, CDs, videotapes and DVDs, and realized […]

I have to admit I was tempted by the 15-inch Macbook Pro with Retina display.  Not only is it thinner and lighter than previous MacBook Pros, its screen is nothing less than stunning if you’re […]