Articles by larry

Apple, in its earnings report last week, announced that Mac sales in its most recent quarter were up by 23 percent over the same quarter last year despite the popularity of the iPad, which competes […]

Facebook is giving developers access to addresses and mobile numbers but users have to allow it for each App they install As Huffington Post reported, Facebook on Friday announced on its developers blog that it is making […]

Intuit, which makes Quicken and Quickbooks has a service called GoPayment which includes apps for the BlackBerry, Android and iPhones and a small credit card reader that plugs into the audio port of a smart […]

The rumors are true. Verizon will start shipping an iPhone on February 10th. Pre-orders will be accepted starting on February 3rd. Verizon has a web page where “You can sign-up to get details” on how to […]

A 2009  study (PDF) from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute found that truck drivers who were texting were 23 times more at risk of a “crash or near crash event” than “nondistracted driving.” As reported by […]

I don’t know what motivated the young man who allegedly murdered several people and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords but whether or not the case, his actions could possibly have been affected by what he […]

I know this sounds a bit heretical, but my tech wish for 2011 is for things to slow down a bit. I realize that the pace of innovation is getting forever faster but there are […]

My first order of business looking back on 2010 is to admit that I was wrong about the iPad. In January, shortly after Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the device, I wrote that I was “underwhelmed” […]

This is hysterical

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