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 Nov 18 2008 | Filed under: Computerworld, Culture Crash, National insecurity, politics
It’s a lousy job, but somebody’s got to do it. Once we find someone who’s crazy–err, patriotic enough to take the position as our nation’s first CTO, what should he or she do?
It might possibly be the worst job in the world, outside of replacing Jerry Yang as Yahoo’s CEO. Yet people seem to [...]
dan tynan on Nov 14 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Facebook, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft
Is Verizon dumping Google? Can Microsoft compete face to face with Facebook? If we can put a man on the moon, why not Joe the Plumber? Cringely has answers to all these silly questions.
dan tynan on Nov 12 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Are journalists to blame for Vista’s failure to catch on? Will Windows 7 suffer a similar fate? Cringely tosses more gasoline on the OS fire.
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 31 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Microsoft
Microsoft has launched the next phase of its $300 million effort to convince us that Vista is not a dog — while quietly pushing its replacement, Windows 7. What’s wrong with this picture?
dan tynan on Oct 24 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
Microsoft has issued an emergency patch for Windows (again). Is it time to finally trade in that old clunker for something that works? Cringely has a few thoughts.
dan tynan on Oct 23 2008 | Filed under: PC World, Spamarama
This post originally appeared on PCworld.com.
As more and more spammers are arrested, prosecuted, and sued under state and federal antispam statutes, there’s one thing you can count on: Someone somewhere will invariably call the targeted spammer a “spam king.”
It seems the bulk e-mail industry has more kings than a pinochle deck. But who is really [...]
dan tynan on Oct 10 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, Video, youtube
Politics is infecting everything these days, from YouTube to email to, yes, Cringely’s blog. Thank god Microsoft and Google finally decided to get along. Right?
dan tynan on Oct 07 2008 | Filed under: Apple, Sony is baloney, US Airways Magazine, Video, Web 2.0
The future of entertainment can be found inside a game console
Hi, my name is Dan and I have a problem with electronics. (“Hi, Dan.”)
As a professional gadget wrangler, my home often looks like an electronics warehouse. These days my living room is filled with devices designed to deliver content from the Internet to my [...]
dan tynan on Oct 01 2008 | Filed under: Foolishness, Microsoft
So I’m searching the Net and for reasons I can no longer remember, I type “Prison.org” into Firefox. Up comes a Russian language site. I click the “English” language button, and the site resolves into the following — the home page for the Moscow Center for Prison Reform. But check out what page Firefox thinks [...]
dan tynan on Sep 20 2008 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft, Privacy
Sarah Palin’s email gets hacked, Jerry Seinfeld gets smacked. It’s been a strange week here in Cringeville.
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 18 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Microsoft, PC World, Privacy, Web 2.0
Michael Hanscom did not pose nude on Flickr, attack the locals with a stick on his trip to Mexico, or dress up like the Fairy Princess while calling in sick. His crime? In October 2003, the Microsoft temp posted photos of Macintosh G5s being unloaded on the Redmond campus to his blog with the [...]
dan tynan on Sep 02 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Google, Identity Theft, Microsoft, Web 2.0
Services like Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault are the best thing to hit medicine since the oral thermometer
I hate clipboards. Not all clipboards, mind you, just the ones I’m invariably handed every time I go to a new doctor’s office. If I have to fill out one more paper form listing my name, address, and [...]
dan tynan on Aug 14 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Facebook, Microsoft, PC World, Web 2.0, youtube
You can’t force anything to ‘go viral’ on the Internet, but that didn’t stop these 10 companies from giving it a big, dumb try. Guess who topped the list.
(This post originally appeared on PCworld.com)
Sure, it looks easy enough. Post a video of yourself wiggling your butt on Wii Fit, dancing your way across the globe, [...]
dan tynan on Aug 04 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Geekishness, Infoworld, Microsoft
A tiny Texas firm just won its .Net patent suit against Microsoft. What does this mean for Web developers and the products they use? Are Adobe and IBM next? Cringely weighs in.
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 20 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Is Microsoft about to swallow AOL, or is this just another feint in the endless struggle to conquer Yahoo and achieve mediocrity in the search marketplace? Cringely has a few ideas, as well as some key questions for all you Microsoft fans out there.
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?
