dan tynan on Jun 11 2008 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, Steve Jobs
(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 ™, did not sit well with Cringesters who are sitting in the cheap seats at the great bandwidth banquet. Particularly [...]
dan tynan on Jun 06 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld
(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 company’s bottom line — has received a [...]
dan tynan on Jun 01 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Privacy
(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 the handles "Defiant" and "EBK" pwned the [...]
dan tynan on May 16 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
(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, then announced his intentions to buy $2.5 [...]
dan tynan on Mar 28 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld
(This entry originally appeared in Infoworld’s Notes from the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
I met a gin-soaked barroom queen…. While I was digging through the Net looking for the skinny on Sequoia Voting Systems and its mystery contractor Kwaidan Consulting (aka Mike Gibbons), the Bradblog’s Brad Friedman was doing the same. He managed to unearth [...]
