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 Nov 21 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
What do Microsoft and OJ have in common? Highly public courts cases with lots of incriminating evidence. But no amount of laywerly magic may be able to save Redmond from the public’s verdict.
dan tynan on Sep 24 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Geekishness, Infoworld
Companies like Hewlett Packard, Cisco, and others are being accused of skirting federal laws to hire foreign workers while laying off American geeks. Cringely labors to uncover the truth.
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 19 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld
(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, and if you have the [...]
dan tynan on Apr 30 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld
(This post originally appeared in Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
Things have been kind of quiet lately on the Hewlett Packard front. There have been no recent spying scandals, no daily kerfuffles over what the CEO is doing, saying, or wearing. Bill Hewlett and David Packard have stopped spinning in their graves [...]
