dan tynan on Nov 23 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Deadpool, Google, Infoworld, Web 2.0
Is Microsoft planning a secret news cartel that will ace out Google? Are Steve Ballmer and Rupert Murdoch in cahoots? That’s the butt that’s been scuttling across the blogosphere this morning, as reports leak that Bing has offered to pay News Corp. actual cash dollars for exclusive rights to index its various properties (Wall Street [...]
dan tynan on Nov 20 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Da Web, Google, Infoworld, iPhone, Steve Jobs, Web 2.0
Apple Tablets? Google Phones? CrunchPads? Don’t expect to find any of those under the tree come Christmas. But that won’t stop people from writing about them.
dan tynan on Nov 19 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Web 2.0
I’ve come to the conclusion that the end of civilization as we know it is indeed upon us. And I blame Google. Though all search engines are at fault, Google in particular is contributing the most to the dumbing down of the Web, which in turn leads to the dumbing down of everything else. Eventually [...]
dan tynan on Nov 17 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, Steve Jobs
And now, a word from our sponsor. Yes, this is true: Last year Apple Inc. filed for a patent on technology that would force you to watch advertisements, no matter how hard you tried to avoid it. First made public back in October, the notion is getting more attention thanks to an essay in Saturday’s [...]
dan tynan on Nov 13 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, iPhone, Santa, baby
The Verizon and AT&T dustup is turning out to be far more entertaining than any tired old Microsoft vs. Apple campaign. After a series of scorching “there’s a map for that” TV ads by Verizon mocking its competitor’s spotty 3G coverage, AT&T ran to a federal judge crying “Daddy daddy daddy, that mean old man [...]
dan tynan on Nov 12 2009 | Filed under: censorship, Cringley, Faux News, Infoworld, Microsoft
The residents of Cringeville weigh in on Rupert Murdoch’s battle with Google, Windows 7, and cartoons
dan tynan on Nov 10 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Faux News, Google, Infoworld
Rupert Murdoch says he may make his sites invisible to Google and other news aggregators. Good luck with that, Sir Rupe.
dan tynan on Nov 06 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Privacy
What does Google know about you and when did they know it? Those are the questions Google claims it’s trying to answer with the new Google Dashboard unveiled yesterday. Simply put, the Dashboard gathers up almost every Google service you’ve signed up for and displays the most basic settings for each on a single page. [...]
dan tynan on Nov 05 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, iPhone, Music, Steve Jobs
Well it finally happened. Digital versions of The Beatles’ catalog are finally coming to Apple. It’s just not the Apple you’re thinking of. On December 8, you may be able to buy all of the recently released digitally remastered Beatles songs — along with 13 mini video documentaries — on an apple-green 16GB USB stick [...]
dan tynan on Nov 02 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Facebook, Infoworld, Web 2.0
I’ve written a bit lately about how cyber thieves using social media to scam people. It turns out the most egregious scammers are many so-called “legitimate” companies that run deceptive ads on these networks. TechCrunch has a fascinating series on how advertisers are using social games to trick Facebook and MySpace users into forking over [...]
