Robert X. Cringely - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Robert X. Cringely

Article | 14/02/2008 Borderline illegal: Your laptop is not your own

Planning to travel? Maybe you want to think twice about bringing your laptop, your mobile phone, or even that iPod. (And if you're of Asian or Middle ...

Article | 8/02/2008 What's worse, MicroHoo or YaGoogle?

So it seems Google may be trying to stave off the shotgun wedding between Microsoft and Yahoo, showing up at Yahoo's window with a ladder and a bus ti...

Article | 1/02/2008 Happy birthday Vista?

It hardly seems possible, but it was one year ago today that Microsoft foisted Windows Vista onto a wary world. (OK -- OEMs and enterprises had Vista ...

Article | 29/01/2008 OLPC: Desperately seeking St. Nick

The One Laptop Per Child mishegas has hit the boiling point, and the hiss of steamed "Give One/Get None" donors has finally gotten the OLPC group's at...

Article | 24/01/2008 Hackers gone wild

It's a truism that sites get hacked every, and some may even deserve it. But we're no longer talking about individual hacks by disgruntled geeks. We'r...

Article | 23/01/2008 OLPC: Give one, get none

First, let me say I am a big fan of One Laptop Per Child, at least as a concept. Connecting the developing world's children to the Internet in a seaml...

Article | 10/01/2008 CES - Of CES, Billy G., and jumping sharks

So I managed to slip away from the chains that bind me to my InfoWorld hovel and schlep out to Las Vegas for the annual gathering of the geek tribes, ...

Article | 9/01/2008 Blue rays of hope?

Promises broken, contracts torn up, splashy CES announcements hastily canceled. It was a nasty bit of business all right -- and no, I'm not talking ab...

Article | 17/12/2007 Google's Virgin marriage

Yet another billionaire bachelor bites the dust. By now, Google's Larry Page and his betrothed Lucy Southworth have been hitched on Richard Branson's ...

Article | 17/12/2007 I'm so bo-o-o-red with the RIAA (but what can I do?)

So, just to be clear. We're all thieves here, right?

Article | 5/12/2007 Has Facebook jumped the shark?

Or maybe, like the late great Evel Knievel, it tried to jump the Snake River Canyon but suffered an equipment failure halfway over. Either way, I'm ov...

Article | 21/11/2007 Will Google Wireless carry the day?

Looks like the Goo-goo-googlers are going to bid for a swath of the 700 MHz spectrum after all.

Article | 10/11/2007 The e-Jihadists are coming!

Stop me if you've heard this one: The Internet arm of Al Queda is targeting 15 anti-Islamist sites on November 11, urging its followers to download th...

Article | 6/11/2007 The great social networking swindle of 2007

Sorry Bridget, Claire, Monica, and Shannon. Thanks but no thanks, Dixie, Lola, Shana and Zara. The same goes for Aimee, Willie, Lolita, Cassandra and ...

Article | 5/11/2007 Microsoft: Be afraid, be very afraid

Here's a scary thought: Microsoft can take over your computer wherever you are, and do whatever it wants to. On this Halloween day I cant think of few...