Articles by larry

When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton reportedly said, “because that’s where the money is.” Although he later denied saying that, the quote endures and is applied to both legitimate businesses and criminal enterprises, […]

Rebecca VanderMeulen just wrote an excellent article on Education.com titled Is Your Child Spending Too Much Time on Facebook? She interviewed me for the story along with Monica Vila, founder and Chief Technology Mom of  The […]

11 Best Travel Apps (AOL) Apple iPhone Apps for Traveling (from Apple) Travelers learn there’s an App for that (MSNBC) 10 Essential travel Apps you should download before taking off (Business Insider) FlightTrack (Mobiata)

by Larry Magid This article first appeared in the 5/23/11 edition of the San Jose Mercury News There’s quite a bit of conflict and confusion over a proposed California bill that would require social networking sites to […]

The iPad 2 may be on backorder for consumers, but Apple doesn’t seem to have any shortage of them when it comes to its own uses. On Sunday, the company started using the popular tablet […]

I’m writing this post on a cool Spring day in Silicon Valley, but we are getting close to summer when temperatures rise and PCs occasionally act up. Although modern PCs are built to mostly work fine in […]

San Francisco — Day one of the annual Google I/O developer’s was all things Android. The day began with a recap of Android’s growth in the two and a half years it’s been on the […]

ReadWriteWeb is reporting that a similar Wi-Fi  bug that affected early iPad users is now affecting the iPad 2.  Users are getting weak signals or being dropped completely. The problem apparently is also affecting some iPhone, iPod […]

The White House on Thursday sent Congress a proposal for cybersecurity legislation that would, among other things, create a national data breach reporting system that is consistant across all 50 states. Currently 47 states have […]

On the second day of the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco, PC makers Samsung and Acer announced that they will be shipping “Chromebooks” that run Google’s Chrome Operating System. Instead of running traditional PC software, […]