Articles by larry

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 […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ought to consider adding members of the Federal Trade Commission to his holiday gift list. They wouldn’t be […]

There’s been a lot of recent press coverage about a French company’s decison that it plans to become a “zero email” company by 2013.   In a press release issued in February, Atos OriginCEO and Chairman, Thierry Breton said that […]

by Larry Magid The Federal Trade Commission and Facebook have reached a settlement on charges that Facebook deceived consumers “by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it […]