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by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News If you’ve ever seen me in a Zoom call or on TV from my home office, you may have noticed that my backdrop includes […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Fitbit, which is now owned by Google, recently released its long awaited successor to its popular Sense and Versa 3 fitness watches, just as […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Late last year, the company formerly known as Facebook changed its name to Meta. It was a signal that the world’s largest social media […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Elon Musk’s on again/off again attempts to purchase Twitter appear to be back on track. On Tuesday, the world’s wealthiest person, reversed himself and […]

By Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News OK, I admit it. I’m a baby boomer whose ideas of what is and isn’t cool and useful are, to some extent, oh-so-late 20th […]

Ever since I got my first Apple II in 1980, I’ve marveled how computers and now phones and even some cars get better over time. Both Apple and Microsoft typically provide major updates on an […]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Listen to “Getting a call in the event of a power failure” on Spreaker. Larry’s CBS News Radio ConnectSafely Report about iSocket device Twice […]

Because of COVID-19, millions of people are now working from home, and even though many offices are now open, there are many who continue to do so for at least part of the week. I’ve […]

I’ve had a nearly life-long battle with weight control. At one point in my early 20s I lost 80 pounds, reducing my body mass index,(BMI) from 35 to 22.8. Although BMI is far from a […]

By Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Chances are you have a lot of apps on your phone, and there’s a good chance that there are some you’re not using or maybe not […]