Stories by Robert X. Cringely

Article | 14/11/2008 Windows 7: It's not you, it's us. Really.
CNET blogger Don Reisinger has an interesting take on the biggest threat to the success of Windows 7: Journalists. His reason?
Article | 12/11/2008 Who will be king of the Geeks?
Now that the election is finally over, all that's left are about a zillion new government appointments. But I know the denizens of Cringeville are par...
Article | 10/11/2008 Is Yahoo dead?
The problem with writing about the endless Microsoft-Yahoo-Google mini-series is eventually you run out of metaphors. So I'll quote Michael Corleone: ...
Article | 5/11/2008 Escape from voting machine Hell
One day, just one more day, and it will all be over.
Article | 3/11/2008 I'm a PC, she's a Mac. Are you a sucker?
Why should Bill Gates, Jerry Seinfeld, and Deepak Chopra have all the fun? Microsoft's I'm a PC site now lets any Tom, Dick, or Mary share the spotlig...
Article | 9/10/2008 Drop that DVD-copying software and put your hands up
More bad news for fans of the "I bought it, I own it, I can do what I want with it" approach to living.
Article | 3/09/2008 Crimes, anonymity and the Net
An ingenious bank robber dressed as a road maintenance worker pulled a heist worthy of Hollywood last week, thanks in part to the Internet.
Article | 2/10/2008 RealDVDs, surreal lawsuits
Like a Brachiosaur sinking into a tar pit, the recording industry as we've known it for the past 70 years is very nearly extinct. But unlike dinosaurs...
Article | 23/09/2008 The RIAA vs ... well, everybody
Most sane humans would greet a law suit from the RIAA the way you'd welcome a surprise audit from the IRS. Not Ray Beckerman. He says, "Bring it on, b...
Article | 18/09/2008 Is Sarah Palin more popular than porn? Search me
In the past two days there have been a bunch of news stories about what America searches for -- and by extension, what Americans are most interested i...
Article | 16/09/2008 Smoke, mirrors and Google's privacy policies
Hi, my name's Cringely, and I am powerless over my Google addiction. ("Hi, Cringely.")
Article | 8/09/2008 Is Jerry Seinfeld the master of Vista's domain?
Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, Siegfried and Roy, Gates and Seinfeld. Years from now, they will be remembered as the some of the great comic du...
Article | 4/09/2008 Chrome sweet Chrome?
Google finally enters the browser business (finally fulfilling years of rumors), and you'd think there was nothing else going on in the world -- no po...
Article | 2/09/2008 Is would-be VP Sarah Palin a hacker?
As we've learned over the last few days, the presumptive GOP candidate for vice president is many things: a reformist governor, a hunter, an ex-beauty...
Article | 29/08/2008 Chinese democracy meets US justice
Yesterday, FBI agents raided the Los Angeles home of 27-year-old blogger Kevin Cogill and arrested him. Cogill's crime? He uploaded nine unreleased tr...

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