Articles by larry

My role on Wednesday’s CBS Early Show was to point out that the reason Steve Jobs may not have given much to charity (we don’t know for sure, he could have given anonymously) is that […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid As far as I can tell, Google engineer Steve Yegge never intended to become famous for criticizing the company he works for. But if […]

  Listen to Larry’s 1-minute CBS News segment where he and Siri have a chat I’m falling in love with someone named Siri. She’s smart, she’s sassy, she answers my questions and she mostly does […]

In a blog post, Google announced that it is killing its much maligned Buzz service to “focus instead on Google+.” As PC World points out, Buzz turned out to be a privacy nightmare for Google […]

I’m not sure what time it went live, but Apple’s long awaited iOS 5.0 update for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch is now available from iTunes.  Just connect your device to your computer, launch iTunes […]

by Larry Magid With an average salary of under $800 a year, Kenya is ranked near the bottom when it comes to per capita income. But, if Bitange Ndemo has his way, the country will […]

by Larry Magid I was on a plane returning from Kenya when the news of Steve Jobs’ death reached the world. Suspended between continents, I was blissfully unaware that we had just lost one of […]

Link to Larry Magid’s 1984 LA Times review of the first Mac (Courtesy Stanford University news service) On  June 12, 2005, Steve Jobs gave an address at Stanford the explained his attitudes towards life and […]

This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid I’m in Nairobi, Kenya, this week to serve as a panelist at the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum (IGF). I’m not sure […]

Of course there is only one Steve Jobs but as I watched Mark Zucberberg give the keynote address at Facebook’s F8 developer’s conference last week, I couldn’t help but think about the many Jobs keynotes […]