sentences:  Malone is the author of numerous books and has written the "Silicon Insider" column for ABC since 2000.In his professional writing he usually uses the name "Michael S. Malone", to distinguish his work from that of another U.S. author named Michael Malone, primarily a writer of fiction.Malone was born in 1954 in Fürstenfeldbruck in Bavaria, a state in what was then West Germany.