Articles by larry

More than a year before he announced the iPhone, Steve Jobs told an audience at the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital conference, “we’re not very good going through orifices to get to the end […]

by Larry Magid A famous cartoon from the New Yorker shows a dog sitting in front of a computer telling another dog, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” But now, thanks to the […]

My daughter Katherine recently returned from teaching English in Spain for a few months. About two months into her trip, her digital camera was stolen. She replaced the camera, but she can never replace the […]

Dear Mr. Jobs (About That iPhone…) PALO ALTO, Calif., July 3, 2007 Dear Steve,Thanks for letting me try out one of your new iPhones. Not only has it been fun to play with but having […]

by Larry Magid With the exception of four anointed reviewers from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Newsweek, as far as I know no journalists were able to get their hands […]

For the past several days I’ve been testing a very innovative new cell phone. It uses WiFi along with a regular GSM cellular network, it has a camera and you can use it to browse […]

Plaxo has a somewhat controversial past, but based on my experience with its 3.0 version launched today, it deserves a terrific future. The original service, which was launched in 2003, was designed to help people […]

June 21, 2007 As anyone who’s ever raised a child can testify, parents sometimes need a bit of help and advice. After all, kids don’t come with a user manual.A new website launched Wednesday – […]

Here’s a link to my column in the New York Times I THOUGHT I was pretty good about energy conservation, but it turns out that I’ve been a bit of a hypocrite. I drive a […]

Most adults I know use their cell phones primarily to make calls. But ask any teenager and you’ll soon find out that that’s only one of many things they’re doing with today’s cell phones. One […]