Articles by larry

In addition to the reviews you can find in the Apple App Store and Android Market,  there are several excellent sources of information about apps. Start by looking at this article from iPhoneLife Magazine that recommends a […]

At a recent Boston TEDx Boston event, Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab,  spoke about a very inexpensive way to turn cell phones into eye exam machines […]

This post appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on December 26, 2011 by Larry Magid There were plenty of gadgets shipped in 2011, but the big stories of the year were about the people who made […]

This post appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on December 19, 2011 by Larry Magid Could 2012 be the year of the Apple clones? It seems likely based on what I expect to be announced at next month’s […]

Is my child at risk from online predators? Although it can happen, the risk of a child or teen being harmed by someone they met on the Internet is very low. There has been widespread […]

by Larry Magid When Anne Collier and I wrote our long out-of-print book,  MySpace Unraveled, we pointed out that MySpace was the largest referrer to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. We noted that kids were alive […]

This post appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on December 12, 2011 by Larry Magid Listen to Larry Magid’s 1-minute CBS News Tech Talk segment about YouTube for Schools Google has launched a YouTube for […]

I’m not a gamer but I was impressed when OnLive CEO Steve Perlman showed me L.A. Noire and several other games running on an Android tablet over the Verizon 4G network. I also saw them running on […]