Archive for the ‘Google’ Category
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Microsoft's cofounder says he'll do charitable work after he retires this month. But we have some other suggestions: driving instructor, expert witness, and circus clown for starters. And Bill has experience in all of them.
(A version of this post originally appeared on PCworld.com)
For more than 30 years he has roamed ...
Posted in Google, Microsoft, National insecurity, PC World | 1 Comment »
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) It's over, finito, kaput. The fat lady hasn't merely stopped singing, she's taken off her girdle and waddled home. There are now so many forks stuck into the Microsoft Yahoo deal that it looks like a cutlery display. ...
Posted in Da Web, Google, Microsoft, yahoo | No Comments »
Friday, June 13th, 2008
Personally, I'm not convinced that this whole thing is truly over. But is Yahoo's partnership with Google better than its partial or complete takeover by Microsoft? Take this BuzzDash poll and tell the world.
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Posted in Da Web, Google, Microsoft, yahoo | 1 Comment »
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
(Note: An edited/augmented version of this piece appeared on Infoworld.com.)
Sure, you may know all about the garage where Apple was born, Michael Dell's dorm room, or Bill Gates' youthful indiscretions. But that's all so 1997. The old guard of the PC revolution are giving way to the young Web 2.0 ...
Posted in Da Web, Facebook, Google, Infoworld, Quizzes, Web 2.0, yahoo, youtube | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Cringley, Google, Video, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
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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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) by Robert X. Cringely Just in case you've suddenly emerged from a coma and hadn't noticed, yesterday was Earth Day here on our planet. And it seems like everybody is putting on their green. Even the US ...
Posted in Apple, Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, environmental | No Comments »
Friday, April 4th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
Full speed behind. It seems the rumors of XP's death have been greatly exaggerated. Microsoft has bowed to overwhelming demand and decided to give XP a reprieve, kinda sorta. Scheduled to get the gas chamber in July, ...
Posted in Apple, Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, Steve Jobs, iPhone | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
$25 billion deal combines two Web powerhouses
by Dan Tynan
In a move that stunned Silicon Valley watchers, Google announced it is purchasing popular social network Facebook in a cash and stock deal valued at $25 billion.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg held a hastily arranged press conference ...
Posted in Da Web, Facebook, Foolishness, Google | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 25th, 2008
(This entry first appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog. What field, you might ask. Good question.)
by Robot X. Cringely
Ignorance is truth. If George Orwell were alive today and working as a marketing wonk, he'd probably have a job at Microsoft. Case in point: MS's Aussie division is offering ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
(Originally posted on Infoworld.com's Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. (don't call me Bob) Cringely
Sergey Brin has weighed in on the whole MicroHoo fandango, and not surprisingly he's agin' it. At Google's Lunar X prize announcement last week, Brin told the Associated Press:
The Internet has evolved from open standards, ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Have you Googled yourself lately? You may not like what you find.
(A version of this story originally appeared in the November 2007 issue of US Airways Magazine.)
by Dan Tynan
They used to call it Ego Surfing. Type your own name into a search engine and see how many matches turned up. ...
Posted in Da Web, Google, Privacy, US Airways Magazine | No Comments »
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
(And now a few choice words from my close personal friend, Robert X. Cringely, who when relatively sober blogs for Infoworld.com.)
MicroYahoo: A marriage made in heck
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Geek News roundup to bring you this bulletin filled with conjecture and unsubstantiated opinions.
In what has to be both the ...
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