Articles by larry

CNET news has a story on how you can get Google Earth Pro for free instead of paying the $400 that the search giant used to change. But, as CNET points out, there aren’t that […]

Esther Wojcicki, an award winning journalism teacher at Palo Alto High School, has come out with a new book, Moonshots in Education: Blended Learning in the Classroom where she talks about schools that are already engaged in […]

A San Diego jury convicted Kevin Bollaert of 21 identity theft and six extortion counts for running websites called YouGotPosted.com and ChangeMyReputation.com.  Prosecutors said that the first site posted nude or sexually explicit pictures of […]

In the past several years, Microsoft has become the Rodney Dangerfield of the tech world. It just doesn’t get much respect. Even though Microsoft remains the 800-pound gorilla when it comes to computer operating systems […]

CBS News Technology Analyst Larry Magid speaks with Rick Smolan, the photographer who covered Robyn Davidson during part of her epic solo journey across the Australian outback. Davidson’s saga was turned into a movie called […]

As you walk around the parking lot, garage and labs at Ford’s newly opened Silicon Valley Research Center, you see plenty of cars and trucks along with all sorts of electronic gear. But there are […]

Microsoft HoloLens could be described as a cross between Google Glass, Facebook’s Oculus VR virtual reality headset and the movie Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise. Like Google Glass and Oculus rift it’s a type of […]

A lot of people scratched their heads when Facebook invested a billion dollars to buy Instagram in 2012. But, based on the results of a recent survey from Pew Research, it now looks like quite […]

CBS News technology analyst Larry Magid talks with Zahra Billoo from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) about how extremists are using social media to recruit and how her group and others in the Muslim community […]

Facebook and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) are teaming up to put Amber Alerts about missing children on Facebook News Feeds, but only for Facebook members in the targeted search area for […]