dan tynan on Mar 05 2013 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Apple, Cringley, Infoworld
One of the unwritten rules in Hollywood is that if something is remotely successful, a sequel is virtually inevitable. It turns out the same is also true in the blogosphere. Last November, I wrote about a reader of mine named Stephen G. who discovered Apple’s iCloud was censoring the emails of his clients without telling [...]
dan tynan on Dec 29 2010 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Facebook, Google, Infoworld, iPhone, Microsoft, Steve Jobs
As 2010 draws to a close, that can only mean one thing: Bloggers conjuring up predictions lists so they can take a few days off around the holidays. Here in Cringeville things are much the same, but with one key difference: unlike other prognosticators, I’m totally unencumbered by facts. That tends to make my accuracy [...]
dan tynan on Dec 22 2010 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Da Web, Facebook, Google, Infoworld, iPhone, Microsoft, National insecurity, yahoo
It’s been quite a year. And in what has become a tradition here in Cringeville, it’s time to honor the most malicious, obnoxious, offensive, or nonsensical behavior in technology. This year’s winners include captains of industry, titans of technology, sultans of sweat, and a number of other people desperately in need of a clue. Among [...]
dan tynan on Aug 02 2010 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Gadgets, Infoworld, iPhone, Privacy, Spy v spy
And you thought those iPhone 4 signal problems were bad. At last week’s Blackhat conference, a San Francisco firm called Lookout Mobile Security revealed that third-party smart phone apps are stealing user information and (literally) phoning home with it. And by ‘home,’ I mean China. But unlike those bogus Droid X signal problems, this problem [...]
dan tynan on Jul 12 2010 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, iPhone
The inevitable anti-Apple backlash has begun. And I’ve got to say, it’s been mighty fun to watch. Earlier this week Consumer Reports pulled its recommendation of the iPhone 4, after its tests determined there is indeed a problem with the phone’s external antenna. Even better, it’s called for Apple to recall all three million iPhone [...]
dan tynan on Apr 28 2010 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Gadgets, Infoworld, iPhone, politics
What do you do when one of your employees takes your company’s top-secret prototype and leave it behind in a beer garden, only to have it end up in the hands of a gadget blog? Call in the authorities and let them play the heavy. The whole Gizmodo iPhone prototype story just got a whole [...]
dan tynan on Apr 21 2010 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, Jesus H. Christ, Steve Jobs
Have Apple and Steve Jobs gone too far? I asked this question in a blog post last week ("Steve Jobs vs. the world"). Since then, Apple rejected an app from Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Mark Fiore, only to rescind the rejection after a media outcry. In an email to a Apple customer, Steve Jobs threw [...]
dan tynan on Apr 16 2010 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, Steve Jobs
Contrary to popular belief in certain circles, Steve Jobs can’t actually walk on water. But you wouldn’t know it based on how he and his company have been acting of late. Item #1. Over the weekend, a minor kerfuffle erupted when Daring Fireball blogger John Gruber noticed Apple had updated its Developer Probram License Agreement [...]
dan tynan on Mar 31 2010 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Google, Infoworld
Two middle-aged guys sit down for a cup of coffee, and people start acting like they just saw Brad and Angelina at Starbucks. What’s the big deal? In this case, the two guys are Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt, sitting down for a morning confab over cafe lattes at a Palo Alto beanery last Friday. [...]
dan tynan on Mar 12 2010 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld
It’s time again to dip into the reader mailbag and pull out some nuggets from the residents of Cringeville. First up this morning is Gene Mosher, who has an issue with Apple’s patent suit over HTC’s touch screen technology (see "Apple vs. HTC: No matter who wins, we lose"). Mr. Mosher’s claim to fame: As [...]
dan tynan on Mar 09 2010 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Gadgets, Infoworld, iPhone
James Cameron’s Avatar may have changed how films are made with Avatar, but Steve Jobsis changing how business is done in Hollywood.
dan tynan on Mar 06 2010 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Google, Infoworld, iPhone
Apple has lawyered up and is out for blood — or at least, blood money. Its patent suit against Taiwanese handset maker HTC is further proof that the cold war between Cupertino and Mountain View is quickly escalating into a shooting match with live ammo. Apple could easily have chosen to sue Palm, whose WebOS [...]
dan tynan on Jan 28 2010 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Gadgets, Infoworld, iPhone, Steve Jobs
The circus is finally over. The carnies are pulling down the tents, the clowns have packed up their seltzer bottles, and we are basking in the soft sweet afterglow of greatness. So much for Obama’s State of the Union address. Now about that Apple event earlier today. By now you’ve probably seen or read dozens [...]
dan tynan on Jan 25 2010 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Gadgets, Infoworld, iPhone
Forget Obamacare or the new Republican senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Pay no attention to the New Orleans Saints or the Jay Leno/Conan O’Brien soap opera. You can even safely ignore the Chinese and their cyber-shenanigans. There’s only one thing happening in the world this week, and it’s taking place in about 48 hours [...]
dan tynan on Jan 08 2010 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Gadgets, Google, Infoworld
So earlier this week Google did indeed unveil the Nexus One “superphone,” and yet life is strangely similar to how it was on Monday. I did not attend yesterday’s highly anticipated press event, but based on the live blog coverage (as well as the live blog coverage of the live blog coverage) it appears to [...]
dan tynan on Jan 08 2010 | Filed under: Apple, Gadgets, Google, Infoworld, iPhone
If anything has become clear over the last six months it’s that people are chomping at the bit for a new kind of device, one that brings the Web to them wherever they are but without the compromises currently required by cell phones (too small), net books (require a table or desk) or Kindle/Nook style [...]
dan tynan on Dec 31 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, amazon, Apple, Cringley, Da Web, Facebook, Future Tech, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, Twit or Tweet, Web 2.0, youtube
It’s kind of hard to believe the first decade of the third millennium is almost over. Seems like only yesterday we were pulling out our hair worrying about Y2K; now we worry about whether enough total strangers are following the minutiae of our lives on Twitter and Facebook. The last ten years have been dominated [...]
dan tynan on Dec 29 2009 | Filed under: amazon, Apple, Cringley, Da Web, Foolishness, Geekishness, Microsoft, Steve Jobs, Twit or Tweet, yahoo
What do Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and AT&T all have in common? They’re all winners of Cringely’s awards for bringing low comedy to high tech.
dan tynan on Dec 17 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, iPhone
My post last week about how AT&T treats its customers like losers got quite a rise out of readers. It even provoked a response from AT&T itself. Per company spokeshuman Seth Bloom, that “You’re a loser” text underneath the image on their online sweepstakes was a “regrettable mistake” and has been changed. (I checked, and [...]
dan tynan on Dec 15 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Gadgets, Google, Infoworld, iPhone, Web 2.0
Google Phone mania has hit the Webberlands. If the rumors are to be believed, Google is on the verge of introducing its own handset called the Nexus One. It will be be built by HTC, use Android 2.x, be available for use with any US-based GSM network (like T-Mobile or AT&T’s), and be sold directly [...]
