dan tynan on Feb 16 2010 | Filed under: Cringley, Gadgets, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, iPhone
They’re baaaack. Just when you thought the dragon had been mortally wounded and sloughed off to its cave to die, it comes back spitting fire and disturbing the neighbors.
At this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft introduced a new mobile operating system that appears to be nothing like any OS it’s ever invented, borrowed, [...]
dan tynan on Feb 12 2010 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, Privacy, Twit or Tweet, Web 2.0
If you work at Google, your ears are surely burning right now. Google’s introduction of its Buzz social media tool this week was possibly the most disastrous product debut in the company’s 12-year history.
Almost immediately Google Buzz got smacked around hard by the blogosphere and veteran journos for making it easy to access information [...]
dan tynan on Dec 31 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Apple, Cringley, Da Web, Facebook, Future Tech, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, Twit or Tweet, Web 2.0, amazon, 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: Apple, Cringley, Da Web, Foolishness, Geekishness, Microsoft, Steve Jobs, Twit or Tweet, amazon, 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 02 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
The Windows “Black Screen of Death” is striking terror across the Web. But whether it’s actually striking any machines is debatable. Cringely suggests other colors we might consider.
dan tynan on Nov 12 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Faux News, Infoworld, Microsoft, censorship
The residents of Cringeville weigh in on Rupert Murdoch’s battle with Google, Windows 7, and cartoons
dan tynan on Oct 28 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
Reactions to last week’s screed about Windows 7 (”Will Windows 7 change our minds about Microsoft?”) came in fast and furious, with readers weighing in on every side of the issue.
Let’s start with some hate mail from G.G., whom one can only presume is a bit of a Microsoft fanboy:
Nice hatchet job on Microsoft, [...]
dan tynan on Oct 26 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft, Music, iPhone
Amidst all the hubbub last week surrounding Windows 7 — not to mention Burger King’s 7-layer Windows Whopper — I totally missed one of the key anniversaries in tech history.
As MacWorld’s Scott McNulty notes, the iPod quietly turned 8 last Friday. My first reaction: Only 8? Hasn’t it been with us forever?
But no. [...]
dan tynan on Oct 23 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
As operating system launches go, Windows 7 has been a pretty sweet one for Microsoft. The reviews are mostly thumbs up. And aside from some unintentionally hilarious videos promoting Windows 7 launch parties, they’ve mostly done things right.
Today, the Microsoft site is featuring a running series of tweets praising the new OS (though [...]
dan tynan on Oct 16 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft, National insecurity
Microsoft may have recovered most of Sidekick users’ missing data, but the bigger point remains: We’re deeply dependent on tech. When it screws up, lives can be lost.
dan tynan on Oct 14 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
For a while there it looked like 2009 would be remembered as the Year of the Dead Celebrity. But Michael, Farrah, Walter, Ed and all the rest may have to move over. This is rapidly becoming the Year the Data Died.
Exhibit A, of course, is the T-Mobile Sidekick Debacle, with Microsoft subsidiary Danger [...]
dan tynan on Oct 06 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Gadgets, Infoworld, Microsoft
You can’t stumble around the Internet these days without bumping into it. News, rumor, speculation, and hot gossip about — no, not David Letterman’s love life (who knew he had one?) or the Jon and Kate Gosselin train wreck — but Tablet PCs.
Yes, over the last year the PC’s buck-toothed, developmentally challenged second [...]
dan tynan on Sep 18 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Microsoft
I’ve been bitching and moaning about battery life for as long as there have been luggables, and I feel like I’ve lugged most of them, starting with a 28-pound Compaq 286 Portable (aka the “sewing machine”) back when I was still a pup, relatively speaking.
In July I wrote about a class action suit [...]
dan tynan on Jul 29 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, yahoo
What’s left to say about the Microsoft-Yahoo ad deal? How about, So long Yahoo, it was nice knowin’ ya.
dan tynan on Jul 22 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, yahoo
The number 2 seach portal has a new(ish) CEO and a new look. But is that enough to keep Yahoo from being steamrolled by Google or manhandled by Microsoft?
dan tynan on Jul 17 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
One of geekdom’s oldest cold wars has suddenly turned hot, as Redmond and Cupertino duke it out in public. Cringe has an idea who’ll win.
dan tynan on Jul 13 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
The residents of Cringeville have a lot to say about forced upgrades, file swapping, and how the feds spend our money. Here’s a quick sampler of some of the best.
dan tynan on Jul 02 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
Apparently Microsoft will stop at nothing to foist IE8 upon us. Cringely dissects Redmond’s latest gag-inducing ads.
dan tynan on Jun 26 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
Microsoft trims Windows 7 prices in the hopes of convincing people to pony up. Cringely finds himself caught up in discount fever.
dan tynan on Jun 15 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, Web 2.0
Bing’s debut has been more successful than most anyone expected, but it’s a long way from causing Google to tremble in its boots — despite what some tabloid newspapers might claim.
