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Can the iPad replace a laptop?
By Larry Magid Saturday, April 3rd I wrote almost this entire column using an iPad which partially answered my biggest question about the device. Can it replace a laptop PC? So far, the answer is […]
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Apple enters health insurance market
Apple on Thursday announced that it’s entering the health insurance business with a service called “iNsure.” Once the service launches later this year, people will be able to purchase health insurance from the iPhone and […]
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Broadcast video from smartphone
Smartphones keep getting smarter and more useful. Now they’re turning into mobile TV broadcasting stations. Sprint last week announced the HTC EVO 4G. It’s the first phone to run on Sprint’s next-generation 4G high-speed mobile […]
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Google’s ‘don’t do evil’ put to test with China
If you go to Google’s investor relations Web site, you’ll see a link for the Google Code of Conduct which begins with “don’t be evil.” Yet depending on how you define evil, Google’s willingness — […]
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FCC’s broadband plan could improve health care
If Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski gets his way, we will have a National Broadband Plan with 100 megabit Internet connection to 100 million U.S. homes by 2020. And that could make remote medicine […]
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European journalists who don’t “get” American blogging
At a conference in Malta, a group of American bloggers had a bit of a culture clash with some European and Asian journalists. Read Larry Magid’s report on CNET News.com Podcast — Larry Magid and […]
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Windows 7 = Vista Upgrade
I don’t know why it took so long, but Microsoft has finally fixed Vista. Only it isn’t calling it Vista. Instead the company is working on what it’s calling a new version of Windows, Windows […]
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Net safer for kids than thought
by Larry Magid reposted from CNET.com A long awaited report from the Internet Safety Technical Task Force concludes that children and teens are less vulnerable to sexual predation than many have feared. The report also questions […]
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CES: Damn the calories, pass the egg rolls
The first event at the Consumer Electronics Show, called CES Unveiled, actually takes place a couple of days before the show officially opens. The press reception, which is sponsored by CES’ host organization, the Consumer […]
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Watching TV from your Blackberry
I just returned from riding around in a car watching live TV on my Blackberry. Research in Motion hasn’t added a TV tuner to any of its popular Blackberry devices but Sling Media just introduced […]