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 Jan 08 2010 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld
The 2010 Vegas Gadgetfest is winding down today, and I’m sure all the cabbies, blackjack dealers, and strippers are breathing a sigh of relief. (CES attendees — and geeks in general — don’t do much gambling and are notoriously lousy tippers, or so I’ve been told.)
As always, CES is one enormous hype factory. [...]
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 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 Dec 01 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Web 2.0
Dan Lyons, perhaps better known to residents of Cringeville as the evil genius behind the Fake Steve Jobs blog, has a curious piece in the current issue of Newsweek talking about the rivalry between Google and Microsoft.
It’s curious, because Lyons — who usually seems like a pretty sharp guy — doesn’t seem to [...]
dan tynan on Nov 23 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Deadpool, Google, Infoworld, Web 2.0
Is Microsoft planning a secret news cartel that will ace out Google? Are Steve Ballmer and Rupert Murdoch in cahoots? That’s the butt that’s been scuttling across the blogosphere this morning, as reports leak that Bing has offered to pay News Corp. actual cash dollars for exclusive rights to index its various properties (Wall [...]
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 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 Aug 12 2009 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, Cringley, DMCA Madness, Infoworld
Recent rulings against Real Networks and Microsoft reinforce a painful truth: The law can no longer keep up with technology.
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.
