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 Oct 09 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Infoworld, Web 2.0, yahoo
Richard Koman at ZDnet published a blog post late last night that amply demonstrates nearly everything that’s right and wrong about Web journalism.
Using information he received from an Iranian blogger, Koman accused Yahoo of handing over the account information for 200,000 Iranian bloggers to the country’s authorities– an act not unlike handing a list [...]
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 Apr 13 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, yahoo
Just when you thought it was dead and buried, the Microsoft/Yahoo soap opera returns. Will these two aging paramours ever hook up?
dan tynan on Apr 01 2009 | Filed under: Faux News, Foolishness, Microsoft, yahoo
The drive to save money in tough economic climate means no more free lunches – even at Google
By Dan Tynan
Belt tightening has hit Silicon Valley in a big way. Intel has instituted a salary freeze from the CEO’s office on down. Cisco is no longer footing the bill for its employees’ home broadband connections. And [...]
dan tynan on Jan 02 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Apple, Cringley, Facebook, Infoworld, Microsoft, Web 2.0, iPhone, yahoo
Yes, it’s time again for Cringely to go out on a limb and start sawing. Here are his key predictions for the coming year in tech.
dan tynan on Dec 24 2008 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Google, Microsoft, Santa, baby, Steve Jobs, Web 2.0, yahoo
(With apologies to the late Theodor Geisel.)
by Robert X. Cringely (aka "Cringe")
Every Steve Up in Redmond Liked Vista a lot
But the Cringe Who lived quite south of Redmond Did NOT
The Cringe hated Vista and Microsoft too Oh [...]
dan tynan on Nov 26 2008 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, Cringley, Infoworld, politics, yahoo
Last year around this time I introduced the Gobblers, my awards for those individuals in the tech field whose behavior most closely resembles a bird whose sole purpose is to be served on a platter.
It was such a big hit I decided to do it again this year. Thus I present the 2008 Gobblers [...]
dan tynan on Nov 26 2008 | Filed under: 15 minutes, Apple, Computerworld, Culture Crash, Da Web, Facebook, Google, Lists, Microsoft, Steve Jobs, Web 2.0, politics, yahoo, youtube
What do retired billionaires, supermodels, search engines, supervillains, energy drinks, whacked-out actors and fried breakfast pastries have in common? They’re some of the things I’m thankful for this year.
If I’m conscious, I’m usually complaining about something. But because it’s almost Thanksgiving I’ve decided to list some of the things I’m grateful for, in and [...]
dan tynan on Nov 07 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, yahoo
Thanks to the DOJ, Google has backed out of its partnership with Yahoo — leaving the #2 search company dangling helplessly over the jaws of Microsoft. Can it survive?
dan tynan on Oct 03 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Microsoft, Privacy, Quizzes, Shameless self promotion, Video, yahoo
This is an interview I did with David Tortorelli, president of Book Premieres, which I did years ago and just found on the Ezinearticles Web site, for some reason. I’d hired David to promote my book, Computer Privacy Annoyances, and this appeared on the book’s Web site (now defunct). But the things I talked about [...]
dan tynan on Sep 18 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Foolishness, PC World, Privacy, Video, Web 2.0, yahoo, youtube
It was a vacation she’d probably rather forget. When Janet Dudley-Eshbach, president of Salisbury University in Maryland, created an album of her family’s trip to Mexico on Facebook in October 2007, she didn’t expect a local TV station to broadcast the photos to the world, or to have a Wikipedia entry covering the mini-scandal. [...]
dan tynan on Sep 17 2008 | Filed under: Google, Web 2.0, yahoo
Do search terms really indicate what Americans are thinking? It all depends if you believe Americans are actually thinking. Cringely has more.
dan tynan on Jul 25 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft, yahoo
Our long national nightmare is over — or so it would seem. After Yahoo gave Carl Icahn a seat at its table, Microsoft walked away, allegedly for good. Is truly the end of MicroHoo? Cringely has his doubts.
dan tynan on Jul 16 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft, yahoo
It’s BratFest 2008. As Microsoft, Yahoo, and Carl Icahn squabble like schoolchildren over who called the other one “stinky,” Cringely longs for some adult supervision. Can’t Google do something to make them stop?
dan tynan on Jul 06 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft, yahoo
(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 isn’t. At least, according to the Wall [...]
dan tynan on Jun 14 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Google, Microsoft, yahoo
(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.
This time its really really really really [...]
dan tynan on Jun 13 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Google, Microsoft, yahoo
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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dan tynan on May 29 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Facebook, Google, Infoworld, Quizzes, Web 2.0, yahoo, youtube
(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 turks redefining technology for [...]
