Stories by Robert X. Cringely

Article | 5/06/2010 CEOs gone wild
They're like out-of-control teenagers - flouting authority, spewing abuse, wrecking the car, allowing 10 billion gallons of crude oil to slime up the ...
Article | 3/06/2010 Microsoft is dead, long live GoogApple
I recently had an experience that epitomizes everything that's wrong with Microsoft and why it is rapidly being tossed into the Recycling Bin of histo...
Article | 29/05/2010 Letter from a CEO: Steve Jobs responds to your email
A few weeks ago I asked readers what they'd say to Steve Jobs, if they have the opportunity to email him. I promised to forward any emails onto Mr. Jo...
Article | 27/05/2010 Microsoft's real problem is Ballmer
Whole lotta shakin' coming from the Redmond, Wash., vicinity, and I'm not talking about an earthquake. Yesterday Steve Ballmer beheaded his president ...
Article | 25/05/2010 Is Facebook truly sorry for its privacy sins?
Want an expert lesson in how to respond without actually responding and how to apologize without saying you're sorry? Then you need to read Facebook C...
Article | 13/05/2010 Psst, pass it on: Apple has no secrets
It appears that yet another Apple iPhone prototype has gone on a walkabout -- and this time not merely to a beer garden in Redwood City, but all the w...
Article | 7/05/2010 The feds may be on to Apple's bad behavior
More evidence that Apple is the new Microsoft: It may be on the verge of getting investigated by Uncle Sam for antitrust violations.
Article | 29/04/2010 Apple comes down hard on iPhone leakers
What do you do when one of your employees takes your company's top-secret prototype and leaves it behind in a beer garden, only to have it end up in t...
Article | 13/04/2010 Microsoft's next of Kin: No cure for smartphone fatigue
As I type this, Microsoft is announcing two new slider mobile phones, the Kin One and Kin Two -- successors to the beloved but aging-faster-than-Micke...
Article | 3/04/2010 'Pranks' for the memories: The best of April Fools 2010
My head is throbbing, my skin feels like sandpaper, and my mouth tastes like the entire Russian army retreated through it on its way back to Moscow.
Article | 26/03/2010 Google: A bull in China's shop
So Google finally made good on its promise to uncensor its Chinese search engine and/or leave the Chinese market. And China is now making good on its ...
Article | 16/03/2010 Did Uncle Sam try to kill Wikileaks?
I just received an email from Wikileaks editor Julian Assange that's pretty wild. It accuses the U.S. government ofdeliberately trying to take down th...
Article | 13/03/2010 Newegg: Get your fake Intel CPUs here
This story is just too wild to ignore: It seems Newegg has quite a bit of old egg on its face this week after it shipped customers "counterfeit" Intel...
Article | 4/03/2010 Apple vs. HTC: No matter who wins, we lose
Apple has lawyered up and is out for blood -- or at least, blood money. Its patent suit against Taiwanese handset maker HTC is further proof that the ...
Article | 30/01/2010 Spam? No thank you, m'am
I don't know about you, but beautiful Russian girls are just dying to meet me. They're all 26 years old, most of them are named Olga, and from their d...

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