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by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News I had hoped that today’s column would be a review of AT&T fiber high-speed internet, which has recently become available where I live. I’m […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Like many people, I’ve spent a lot of time in front of my phone, computer and TV, focused on the war in Ukraine. On […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News In 2015, a Microsoft employee, according to Forbes, told a conference that “Windows 10 is the last version of Windows,” implying that the version […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News For many years, I spent the first week of January in Las Vegas at the giant Consumer Electronics Show but this year, I’m covering […]

      August 19, 1993 by Lawrence J. Magid (c)1993 Los Angeles Times Syndicate It seems as if everyone here in Silicon Valley is salivating over the new Apple Newton MessagePad. Not me. After […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News If you’ve had a checkup, a medical professional may have clipped a device to your finger to measure your oxygen saturation (SpO2) and pulse. […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News As a Silicon Valley resident, I’m used to seeing autonomous cars from Waymo, Nuro and other companies being tested on local roads by professional […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News In last week’s column, I wrote about how today’s cloud computing is reminiscent of yesteryear’s mainframes in both positive and negative ways.  In that […]

By Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Listen to “Computing Has Gone Full Circle, and It’s Time to Go Back a Bit” on Spreaker. With a little help from John Lennon, […]

Metaverse, a term coined by Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel “Snow Crash,” envisions a world where humans and their avatars interact with each other and software in a virtual 3D space. It’s no longer science fiction. […]