Stories by Robert X. Cringely

Article | 9/09/2010 Craigslist to state attorneys: Censor this
Probably the last thing Craig Newmark ever imagined was that the little email list he started back in 1995 would one day be at the center of a controv...
Article | 4/09/2010 Consumer Watchdog thinks Google's Schmidt is a data perv
Imagine wandering through Times Square and seeing a 60-foot-tall animation depicting you (yes, you) as a creepy child-baiting ice cream truck driver. ...
Article | 31/08/2010 Paul Allen: MS co-founder, tech pioneer - patent troll?
Co-founder of Microsoft, early supporter of commercial space flight, and major world philanthropist Paul Allen has already left a pretty large footpri...
Article | 21/08/2010 Can you trust Facebook Places?
Facebook, the company many people don't trust to protect their status updates and personal information, is now in the business of collecting location ...
Article | 19/08/2010 The Class of 2014: What these kids don't know
Beloit College has published its Mindset List for the Class of 2014, an annual tradition designed to capture the "cultural touchstones that shape the ...
Article | 12/08/2010 Microsoft needs more than a new slogan
It seems Microsoft didn't get pummeled enough in the "<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/microsoft-vs-apple-battle-rages-731">I'm a ...
Article | 10/08/2010 HP's sex scandal: Obscene and not Hurd
It's usually other industries that get all the sex scandals. Politics, sports, entertainment -- hardly a week goes by without someone getting their da...
Article | 20/07/2010 Here lies the Google Nexus One: 2010-2010
The Nexus One is dead, Jim.
Article | 15/06/2010 The two faces of Steve (Jobs and Ballmer)
Writing about Steve Ballmer and Steve Jobs always seems to get a rise out of my readers. Case in point: three letters I've received lately, two of whi...
Article | 13/07/2010 Five Android apps we desperately need
You say your secret ambition in life is to build the world's greatest mobile flatulence app? Here's your chance.
Article | 8/07/2010 RIP Microsoft Kin, you won't be missed
It's been a week since <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/microsoft-kills-the-kin-910">Microsoft took its two fledgling Kin smartphones for ...
Article | 22/06/2010 Google's Wi-Fi spygate is its BP moment
While it doesn't quite rank up there with dumping hundreds of millions of gallons of crude oil into the ocean <a href="http://larrykinglive.blogs.cnn....
Article | 19/06/2010 Spies, WikiLeaks, and hackers, oh my!
It's like a Hollywood thriller. A military spy is arrested, betrayed by someone he thought to be a comrade in arms -- a brilliant yet mentally disable...
Article | 9/06/2010 Danger, danger! Tech overload ahead
Today of course is the first day of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference -- another Steve Jobs love fest during which he trots out the latest lif...
Article | 10/06/2010 Lies, damned lies, and technology hype
Hyperbole seems to be an inevitable by product of new technology; you build a new gizmo, you end up getting a certain amount of hype all over your clo...

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