Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Porat tells it in hindsight, the idea for his device — with phone, messaging, note-taking, and game functions — came to him in ...

The formerly hot Silicon Valley company once enjoyed investments from Apple and Microsoft and let rabbits wander free around its offices to inspire creativity. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at ...

General Magic, the company, is remarkable, and worth remembering because back in the last decade of the 20th century its people were envisioning the major components of the mobile computing experience ...

Former high-flying software developer General Magic has filed for bankruptcy, marking one of the company's last acts in its tumultuous history. The move by General Magic comes as a formality, given ...

In 1993 Sarah Kerruish was part of a filmmaking crew commissioned by tech start-up General Magic to visually capture the creation of their handheld wireless communications device, which enabled the ...

There's a romantic element associated with the notion of being ahead of one's time, of seeing the future before anyone else. "General Magic" shows the flip side of that coin. The insightful ...

(General Magic, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA) A former company founded in 1990 as a spin-off of Apple. General Magic was established to create a platform for personal communications and license the technology ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A former tech executive covering AI, XR and The Metaverse for Forbes. This article is more than 7 years old. Former Apple CEO John ...

Matthew Maude and Sarah Kerruish's documentary 'General Magic' chronicles the rise and fall of the pioneering tech company that created a product ahead of its time. By Frank Scheck See if you can ...