Archive for the ‘Cringley’ Category
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
(This posts originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
Here's a travel advisory: The next time you find yourself in a foreign city at night with nothing to do, take my advice: rent a movie in your hotel room. Don't go to discos. And if you do go out, ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) The recording industry has finally met its match, and it's one bad mother -- or, more accurately, several good ones. The first good mother in our saga is Stephanie Lenz, who posted a 30-second video of ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) If you thought the whole Microsoft-Yahoo-Icahn fandango was twisted and ugly before, well, it just got worse. Over the last three days these clowns have been eye-poking and face slapping like The Three Stooges -- sans the sophistication. ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) So a New York judge last week ordered Google to hand over 12 terabytes of YouTube user information to Viacom. Yes, we know what you watched last summer, or at least Viacom's attorneys soon will. The ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) The Bush Administration's anti-recession tactics have given rise to an unexpected beneficiary: the Internet pørn industry. According to the Adult Internet Market Research Company, adult sites have been engorged with sales during the normally limp summer months. One ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) On this 4th of July weekend, let us celebrate the independence of Yahoo -- for however long it lasts. Because just when you thought Microsoft's bid for the Yahooligans was really truly deeply ultimately finally over, it really ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
It turns out the reports of XP's death may be slightly exaggerated.
Sure, the obits have been posted and the requiems are being sung. The fat lady has already packed up her girdle and gone home with a bucket of KFC. ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) Last week the House of Representatives passed a "compromise" amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, though it sounds like the only things that have been compromised are our Constitutional rights. Now the Senate is poised to do ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) A federal judge in Los Angeles has recused himself from a obscenity trial after a trove of dirty pictures were found squirreled away on his personal web site. Sounds scandalous, no? But the reality is both more complicated ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) The notion that we are swimming in broadband choices, floated last week by Cringester B. D. in rebuttal to my snarky jibes about the phonecablopoly (tm), did not sit well with Cringesters who are sitting in the cheap ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) In case you've been living in a cave, today marks the first day of the Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference and Steve Jobs' keynote, which Apple watchers have declared will be the venue where Jobs unveils iPhone 2.0 -- ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) Boozes, babes, and Broadcom. Here's more proof that I got into the wrong end of this business. Ex-Broadcom CEO Henry Nicholas-- already nailed for stock options shenanigans that added a fictional $2.2 billion worth of revenue to his ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
(This post originally appeared in Infoworld's Notes From the Field Blog.) It's been a wild week here in Cringeville. My blog posts on YouTube v. Viacom and the FCC's proposal for a pørn-free wireless Internet have inspired raging debates about copyrights and corporate rights, free speech and free sex. ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field Blog.) Throttle this. Bit Torrent blocking Comcast got an education in the ways of the Net this week when hackers gained access to the ISP's domain name records and redirected Comcast.net traffic to a vandalized site. Teenage hackers with ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) Frankly, I thought Viacom's $1 billion law suit against YouTube was dead. YouTube has been kicking people off its site left and right for posting copyrighted material, even if they didn't always deserve it. And Viacom had started ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
Bad news for Twitter. The original micro-blogging service (now available in brief, mega-terse, and vowel-free versions) has been accused of aiding and abetting bad behavior on the Web. I am shocked, shocked I tell you.
In case you've never used Twitter, ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
(This entry originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
Slouching toward Cupertino. It's not every day the Second Coming gives you advance notice, but the resurrection of the Jesus Phone -- in 3G, for the first time ever! -- is now (unofficially) slated for June 9. Or so says ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) Don't look now, but there's a secret cabal at work conspiring to lock you out of the public Internet. That, at least, is the hyperventilated opinion of Robert Scoble, who not so long ago was just another Microsoft ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
Microsoft finally released XP's Service Pack 3 to the masses last week, which is a bit like telling someone on death row you finally got around to fixing their car. Then it turns out your car may not really run, ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
(This screed originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) I think, therefore Icahn. Just when you thought the Yahoo-Microsoft deal was kaput, in steps everyone's least favorite uncle Carl Icahn to muck things up. In a letter to the Yahoo board, the curmudgeon billionaire scolded board members, ...
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