Articles by larry

I remember calling up a friend and telling him I had good news and bad news. The good news was that I just signed-up to write a column for one of America’s largest newspapers, but the bad news was that I had to write about computers rather than important stories like politics. […]

Here are my LA Times columns from 1983 […]

Scroll down for my LA Times columns from 1984, including two that were about “1984.” And one about the brand new Mac showed to me by “Apple’s young chairman,” Steve Jobs. Click here  for Larry’s 1983 […]

It’s been obvious for awhile that we’re starting to experience a tech backlash, with an increasing number of people expressing skepticism over whether our devices and social media are doing us harm. Some of this […]

Two recent news stories about cell phone location services recently caught my eye. One was a positive development and the other quite negative, until it was at least partially fixed. The positive story is that Apple’s iOS […]

One of my doctors recently reminded me that “sitting is the new smoking,” a mantra repeated by many in the medical community. He suggested I cut back the time in my chair. So, when a […]

Larry looks at a couple of dash cams whose footage he hopes to never have to look at […]

I see a connection between today’s ruling giving the go ahead for the AT&T/Time Warner merger and yesterday’s official end to net neutrality. While the decisions themselves were unrelated, the results could be very connected […]

The newest version of Gmail for Android (8.5.20) allows you to control what will happen with a left or right swipe from the screen. Gmail has long allowed you to archive or delete messages with […]

As the founder of SafeKids.com and co-founder of ConnectSafely.org, I’ve written volumes about parental controls that help parents limit what their kids can do online or with mobile devices. Apple already offers optional parental controls for iPhones […]