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CBS Evening News & Sunday Morning iPad story
CBS News correspondent John Blackstone interviews Larry Magid and Steve Levy and shows video of Steve Jobs from 1981.
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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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FTC advice on talking with kids about online safety
The FTC’s excellent Internet safety booklet “Net Cetera” The Federal Trade Commission has published an excellent guide for parents about helping kids and teens stay safe and protect their privacy and reputation online and on […]
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Internet safety video could win you $10K
Trend Micro giving away $10,000 to best Internet safety video (credit: Trend Micro) Computer Security firm Trend Micro has an offer for any teen or adult who cares about Internet safety and security and wants […]
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A Nobel Peace Prize for the Internet?
by Larry Magid It’s an odd concept but there is a movement to nominate “the Internet” for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. There’s even a Web site, InternetForPeace.org, to advocate that the “Nobel Peace Prize […]
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by Larry Magid This article initially appeared on CNET News.com Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski laid out the “broadband plan for children and families” Friday at the National Museum of American History in Washington, […]