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- [Apple's Vision Pro headset is a hobby. Why won't Tim Cook say that?](https://www.cringely.com/2023/06/16/apples-vision-pro-headset-is-a-hobby-why-wont-tim-cook-say-that/) - What would Steve (Jobs) say about Apple's Vision Pro headset? Steve would call the Vision Pro a “hobby,” just as he did with the original Apple TV.
- [AI and Moore’s Law: It’s the Chips, Stupid](https://www.cringely.com/2023/06/15/ai-and-moores-law-its-the-chips-stupid/) - Sorry I’ve been away: time flies when you are not having fun. But now I’m back. Moore’s Law, which began with a random observation by the late Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that transistor densities on silicon substrates were doubling every 18 months, has over the intervening 60+ years been both borne-out yet also changed from
- [The Auditor’s Opinion](https://www.cringely.com/2026/07/16/the-auditors-opinion/) - Last week somebody rebuilt a working website using a swarm of cheap AI agents bossed around by a smarter one, and the whole thing cost about eight dollars -- sandwich and a coffee. But the part that lit up my corner of the internet wasn’t the website. It was that the agents caught their own
- [ARM Never Made a Chip. Dolby Never Built a Speaker.](https://www.cringely.com/2026/06/17/arm-never-made-a-chip-dolby-never-built-a-speaker/) - There's a lot of excited arithmetic going around about artificial intelligence. A trillion-dollar valuation here, a hundred-billion-dollar funding round there, the price of a model quoted like the budget of a moon mission. I've been writing this column long enough — since the Reagan administration, if you want to make me feel old about it
- [The Cases That Don't Exist](https://www.cringely.com/2026/06/12/the-cases-that-dont-exist/) - How GenAI is not yet ready for law In 2023, a New York lawyer named Steven Schwartz filed a brief in a routine personal-injury case against an airline. The brief cited a half-dozen helpful precedents. The precedents did not exist. Schwartz had asked ChatGPT to find supporting cases, and ChatGPT — being a machine that
- [Apple Gave Siri Hands](https://www.cringely.com/2026/06/11/apple-gave-siri-hands/) - WWDC answered whether your assistant is private. It never answered whether it’s telling the truth — and Apple just gave it hands. The smartest thing I’ve read about Apple’s WWDC didn’t come from Apple. It came from an analyst named Nate B. Jones, who watched the same keynote everyone else did and noticed that the
- [The Market Behind the Wall](https://www.cringely.com/2026/06/10/the-market-behind-the-wall/) - Yesterday I told you what 2Brains is, and how it separates the saying from the knowing. Today, the part that ought to worry some very large companies: what all of it is worth if we’re right. Wall Street is pricing the AI data-center buildout at something like $1.7 trillion by 2030. Almost all of that
- [Two Brains](https://www.cringely.com/2026/06/09/two-brains/) - For two months this column has been describing an architecture. Here's the part I kept in the footnotes: I've been building it. I owe you a confession, and then I owe you a demonstration. The confession first. For weeks I've written about why the machines can't tell truth from plausibility — why detection isn't a
- [GenAI is Fluent in Everything, but Faithful in Nothing](https://www.cringely.com/2026/06/08/genai-is-fluent-in-everything-but-faithful-in-nothing/) - Why the machines hallucinate, why they have no worldview, and why truth has to come from somewhere else. I'm going to say something that sounds like an insult and is meant as a description: large language models (all of them) hav never known a true thing. Not once. It doesn't know things at all. It
- [Detection Is Not a Strategy](https://www.cringely.com/2026/06/05/detection-is-not-a-strategy/) - Every few weeks, someone announces a tool that detects AI hallucinations. A startup, a research lab, a hyperscaler bolting a "trust layer" onto its chatbot. The release uses the word "guardrails." Everyone nods. Another brick in the road to safe, reliable AI. I want to argue that we are cheering for the wrong thing —
- [Knowing What You Don't Know](https://www.cringely.com/2026/06/04/knowing-what-you-dont-know/) - Why the next real breakthrough in AI isn't a bigger brain — it's a machine that can admit ignorance. A reader caught me out. Last column I argued that the great AI buildout — the hundreds of billions pouring into data centers and the GPUs that fill them — is aimed at the wrong layer.
- [The Most Expensive Mistake in the History of Computing](https://www.cringely.com/2026/06/03/the-most-expensive-mistake-in-the-history-of-computing/) - I promised to show you why the whole industry’s answer to its own problem — buy a bigger brain — is the most expensive mistake in the history of computing. To do that I have to take you back to 1999, because I was there, and if you’re old enough to be reading me, maybe
- [The Thirty Percent Confession](https://www.cringely.com/2026/06/02/the-thirty-percent-confession/) - Last time I told you the AI industry is paying a tax it doesn’t have to pay — that a great deal of what we grandly call “AI” is really just looking things up, and we’ve chosen to do that looking-up on the most expensive silicon ever manufactured. A number of you wrote to
- [The Lying Machine](https://www.cringely.com/2026/06/01/the-lying-machine/) - There is a lawsuit grinding through a federal court in Minnesota that every insurance executive in America should be reading instead of their quarterly AI roadmap. The case is Estate of Lokken v. UnitedHealth Group. It was filed in late 2023 by the families of two deceased Medicare Advantage members, and it alleges that UnitedHealthcare
- [The NVIDIA Tax](https://www.cringely.com/2026/05/29/the-nvidia-tax/) - The Tax You're Paying on a Chip You Never Bought I live in Virginia, which means I have a front-row seat to the strangest tax increase in modern American life. Nobody voted for it. It isn't on any ballot. But it's showing up on the electric bills of people who have never typed a prompt
- [The Permission Slip](https://www.cringely.com/2026/05/28/the-permission-slip/) - A while back I asked in this space what would happen if Dario Amodei was wrong. I want to come back to that, because I think the question matters more now than it did then, and for a reason that has nothing to do with whether I like Dario or his company. I do, for
- [Where the heck have I been all this time?](https://www.cringely.com/2026/05/27/where-the-heck-have-i-been-all-this-time/) - I owe you all an explanation of where I have been. The story starts in 2022 when ChatGPT came out and everyone decided to get rich. I know I did. So, I bullied my dear friend – a legendary lawyer – into building a legal writing tool. Within a week we knew our mission was
- [I'm writing again...](https://www.cringely.com/2026/05/21/im-writing-again/) - I'm Writing Again For those of you who are still here — and given how long it's been, "still here" is a real act of patience — thank you. I haven't written a column since 2022. Just like everyone else, I've been busy all this time on Artificial Intelligence, founding with two partners a company
- [If you want to reduce ChatGPT mediocrity, do it promptly](https://www.cringely.com/2023/02/07/if-you-want-to-reduce-chatgpt-mediocrity-do-it-promptly/) - Google trained us how to write queries but we really need prompts
- [What about the layoffs at Meta and Twitter? Elon is crazy! WTF???](https://www.cringely.com/2022/11/21/what-about-the-layoffs-at-meta-and-twitter-elon-is-crazy-wtf/) - This Too Shall Pass
- [Paul Graham's Legacy](https://www.cringely.com/2022/10/27/paul-grahams-legacy/) - Who knew replicating Silicon Valley would come down to curriculum?
- [What yesterday's Apple satellite announcement really means](https://www.cringely.com/2022/09/08/what-yesterdays-apple-satellite-announcement-really-means/) - The SpaceX/T-Mobile announcement two weeks ago took away from Apple its ability to control the pace of change for cellular in space.
- [Apple's Space Ambitions are Real](https://www.cringely.com/2022/06/03/apples-space-ambitions-are-real/) - Buy with both hands
- [Putin plays his asshole card](https://www.cringely.com/2022/05/18/putin-plays-his-asshole-card/) - Putin needs to be seen as crazy for this last chance to pull-off what he'll call a W. It's one bad man against the world and the world may be losing.
- [How to quickly end the war in Ukraine with $10 laser pointers](https://www.cringely.com/2022/03/29/how-to-quickly-end-the-war-in-ukraine-with-10-laser-pointers/) - Give 100,000 laser pointers to Ukrainian mothers (not kids — too dangerous). Even the puniest laser pointer can temporarily blind a pilot more than a mile away.
- [Here's why Putin won't use nukes in Ukraine -- Pass it on.](https://www.cringely.com/2022/03/21/heres-why-putin-wont-use-nukes-in-ukraine-pass-it-on/) - President Putin of Russia has been talking a lot lately about his forces using nuclear weapons — presumably tactical nuclear weapons — in the war with Ukraine. It’s an easy threat to make but a difficult one to follow-through for reasons I’ll explain here in some detail. I’m not saying Mr Putin won’t order nuclear Putin using nukes will kill more Russians than Ukrainians. It's a bluff.
- [When is a no-fly zone not a no-fly zone? When it's an airlift.](https://www.cringely.com/2022/03/07/when-is-a-no-fly-zone-not-a-no-fly-zone-when-its-an-airlift/) - The effect would be to paralyze Ukrainian airspace 24/7 in order to perform a humanitarian mission. NOT a no-fly zone.
- [Bob's 9/11 post from 20 years ago -- To a Man With a Hammer](https://www.cringely.com/2021/09/10/bobs-9-11-post-from-20-years-ago-to-a-man-with-a-hammer/) - Some things are worth reading again. For the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, here -- unedited -- is my column originally published September 13, 2001. My smarter and handsomer brother was in Northern New Jersey on Tuesday looking across the water at what was for just a moment longer the single remaining tower
- [Einstein’s Fridge: Who knew the history of thermodynamics was so much like high school?](https://www.cringely.com/2021/08/20/einsteins-fridge-who-knew-the-history-of-thermodynamics-was-so-much-like-high-school/) - Almost 50 years ago I had the misfortune to take two statistics classes at the same time. One was a required introduction to statistics and the other was econometrics. Don’t ask why I took them both — I don’t remember. But I do remember one day in the Intro to Statistics class when another student
- [Starlink is a global ISP built at ZERO COST to SpaceX, enabling NASA's Artemis launch](https://www.cringely.com/2021/04/20/starlink-is-a-global-isp-built-at-zero-cost-to-spacex-enabling-nasas-artemis-launch/) - Your phone bill is building Elon's space empire.
- [10 years later Fukushima Daiichi still melts down my heart](https://www.cringely.com/2021/03/26/10-years-later-fukushima-daiichi-still-melts-down-my-heart/) - When I wrote that none of the 11 Fukushima Daiichi reactors would ever operate again, I was the sole voice on the planet saying so. Ten years later I was right.
- [Half a dozen little 2021 predictions about life after COVID-19](https://www.cringely.com/2021/03/10/half-a-dozen-little-2021-predictions-about-life-after-covid-19/) - This pandemic will have greater long-term effects than that of 1918 and the reason comes down mainly to technology.
- [2021 Prediction #6:  COVID-19, Clubhouse, and the Great High School Reset](https://www.cringely.com/2021/02/26/2021-prediction-6-covid-19-clubhouse-and-the-great-high-school-reset/) - Coming out the other side of this mess several aspects of life will be different, but school probably won't be one of those.
- [2021 Prediction #5:  Apple (and maybe Google) saves the world](https://www.cringely.com/2021/02/09/2021-prediction-5-apple-and-maybe-google-saves-the-world/) - Any superior GPS replacement can't rely on just different satellites, it must rely on different technology. For that, Apple is the best — and maybe only — bet.
- [2021 Prediction #4: WiFi 6 is a bust (for now) as Bufferbloat returns thanks to ISP greed](https://www.cringely.com/2021/02/04/2021-prediction-4-wifi-6-is-a-bust-for-now-as-bufferbloat-returns-thanks-to-isp-greed/) - WiFi 6 is a bust (for now) as Bufferbloat returns thanks to ISP greed
- [2021 Prediction #3: Get ready for more GameStops as hedge funds are no longer the only bullies in town](https://www.cringely.com/2021/01/28/2021-prediction-3-get-ready-for-more-gamestops-as-hedge-funds-are-no-longer-the-only-bullies-in-town/) - Maybe greed isn't so good after all...
- [2021 Prediction #2: Peak Facebook as Zuck runs out of role models](https://www.cringely.com/2021/01/26/2021-prediction-2-peak-facebook-as-zuck-runs-out-of-role-models/) - Zuckerberg no longer has anyone to look to for advice on how to run Facebook
- [2021 Prediction #1: Trump will do fine without Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook](https://www.cringely.com/2021/01/16/2021-prediction-1-trump-will-do-fine-without-twitter-instagram-and-facebook/) - Trump will do fine without Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook -- here is why.
- [Bob's 2021 Tech Predictions: What a Difference a Pandemic Makes](https://www.cringely.com/2021/01/15/bobs-2021-tech-predictions-what-a-difference-a-pandemic-makes/) - This is when I typically generate a list of technology predictions for the coming year. The challenge this year isn’t coming up with predictions, it’s finding a moment of calm to share them when people are most likely to read. With a pandemic rolling along and the nation in political and economic crises to boot,
- [The Big Sky is Falling](https://www.cringely.com/2020/11/19/the-big-sky-is-falling/) - Why systems often don't change until it is change or die...
- [2020-21 is the asterisk academic year](https://www.cringely.com/2020/10/22/2020-21-is-the-asterisk-academic-year/) - Distance learning has societal costs and the worst is yet to come.
- [Tesla won the self-driving car war, they just aren't telling us](https://www.cringely.com/2020/09/17/tesla-won-the-self-driving-car-war-they-just-arent-telling-us/) - Tesla won the autonomous driving war because they have real cars facing real exceptions not found in a simulation and their dual processors know it.
- [The Incentive Game](https://www.cringely.com/2020/09/03/the-incentive-game/) - How Walmart could save American small business
- [President Trump thinks he can shut down WeChat: It won’t work](https://www.cringely.com/2020/08/08/president-trump-thinks-he-can-shut-down-wechat-it-wont-work/) - What Presidential Internet authority?
- [Mark Zuckerberg’s Pact with the Devil](https://www.cringely.com/2020/07/22/mark-zuckerbergs-pact-with-the-devil/) - To understand Facebook's heart, look to its head.
- [After switching to ARM, expect Apple to buy TSMC, too](https://www.cringely.com/2020/06/29/after-switching-to-arm-expect-apple-to-buy-tsmc-too/) - Apple needs growth without anti-trust concerns and buying TSMC fills that bill
- [Jeff Bezos Can’t Lose](https://www.cringely.com/2020/05/11/jeff-bezos-cant-lose/) - An anti-trust breakup of Amazon would make founder Bezos even richer
- [Cringely's Rules for Home Schooling in the Age of COVID-19](https://www.cringely.com/2020/04/30/cringelys-rules-for-home-schooling-in-the-age-of-covid-19/) - How to help your kids stay on-track academically during the COVID-19 lock-down without anyone going crazy.
- [COVID-19 Lessons from Three Mile Island #2 -- the NRC](https://www.cringely.com/2020/04/17/covid-19-lessons-from-three-mile-island-2-the-nrc/) - While FEMA was simply unprepared for Three Mile Island, the NRC was unprepared AND LIED ABOUT IT
- [Three Mile Island Lessons for COVID-19: FEMA and Me](https://www.cringely.com/2020/04/15/three-mile-island-lessons-for-covid-19-fema-and-me/) - What do COVID-19 and TMI have in common? Bureaucratic incompetence that should have been predicted.
- [Sometimes We Get Lucky: ProjectN95.org](https://www.cringely.com/2020/04/02/sometimes-we-get-lucky-projectn95-org/) - Late on a Sunday night with the tech world in shut-down, how long would it take for me to find someone looking for up to five million N-95 masks? 
- [Not Just the End of IT, the End of IT Contractors](https://www.cringely.com/2020/03/30/not-just-the-end-of-it-the-end-of-it-contractors/) - Expect an even bigger bloodbath as IT employees at all levels are let go forever.
- [2020 Brings the Death of IT](https://www.cringely.com/2020/03/25/2020-brings-the-death-of-it/) - The IT kid in a white shirt is being replaced by SASE, didn't you know?
- [COVID-19 will Kill a Ton of Startups (or So it Will Seem)](https://www.cringely.com/2020/03/25/prediction-covid-19-will-kill-a-ton-of-startups-or-so-it-will-seem-as-vcs-pull-back/) - Expect an over-sized VC response to COVID-19. Almost no new venture investments will be made -- and a lot will die -- before the medical outcome is clear.
- [What an Epidemic is Really Like](https://www.cringely.com/2020/03/24/what-an-epidemic-is-really-like/) - How bad an epidemic will COVID-19 really be? Nobody knows.
- [I have no boils](https://www.cringely.com/2017/10/13/i-have-no-boils/) - This is probably the last picture ever taken of our house in Santa Rosa, California. The time was 11:30PM Sunday and a neighbor had just pounded on our door. Fifty mph winds had been blowing all day but nobody expected fire. Yet the glow you see is from burning houses behind and beside ours. They,
- [2020 Prediction: COVID-19 will suck like 9/11](https://www.cringely.com/2020/02/27/covid-19-economic-impact-like-9-11/) - This is the first of two 2020 predictions concerning COVID-19, the coronavirus. This is short-term economic impact. Tomorrow is long-term structural changes
- [How to save 400,000 lives per year (four million in the world)](https://www.cringely.com/2020/02/17/how-to-save-400000-lives-per-year-four-million-in-the-world/) - 400,000 Americans die of heart attacks every year, mostly because of a glaring flaw in the business of medicine — a flaw that could be easily fixed.
- [My first two predictions for 2020 -- IBM and Trump](https://www.cringely.com/2020/01/31/predictions-for-2020-ibm-and-trump/) - Rometty has no real choice. IBM is at this point smoke, mirrors, and buybacks. The GTS windfall will land in Ginni's final quarter, juicing her payout, which might be the major point of the deal.
- [Looking back at Y2K from the Trump Era](https://www.cringely.com/2020/01/24/looking-back-at-y2k-from-the-trump-era/) - Y2K was Climate Change for an earlier era -- a very real global problem that was anticlimactic only because we took heroic efforts to handle it.
- [Not dead yet! What Bob Cringely has been up to...](https://www.cringely.com/2020/01/23/not-dead-yet-what-bob-cringely-has-been-up-to/) - Bob Cringely explains what he's been doing while away -- launching rockets!
- [The Future of Television](https://www.cringely.com/2019/06/07/the-future-of-television/) - I’ll be surprised if broadcast television in the U.S. survives another decade.
- [Prediction #5 — Drones become Pizza-to-the-Neighborhood (PTTN)](https://www.cringely.com/2019/04/04/prediction-5-drones-become-pizza-to-the-neighborhood-pttn/) - Drone package delivery will shortly come to mean drones delivering packages not to houses but to the roofs of cars that will, in turn, deliver those packages to our homes. It's like last-mile Internet delivery only for pizzas.
- [InsecureID: No more secrets?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/25/insecureid-no-more-secrets/) - credit: Ludovic Rembert (https://privacycanada.net/) Update -- Though I chose to keep secret the identity of the defense contractor to limit the damage it was subsequently revealed by Reuters to be Lockheed-Martin. There was one additional detail presented at the end of a story in Saturday's New York Times. Back in March I heard from an
- [Prediction #4 -- Self-driving cars won't happen this year no matter what Elon says](https://www.cringely.com/2019/03/19/prediction-4-self-driving-cars-wont-happen-this-year-no-matter-what-elon-says/) - Self-driving cars won’t hit the retail market in any fashion this year. We simply aren’t ready and probably won’t be for years to come.
- [2019 Predictions #2 and #3 — A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) shakeout and legal trouble for AWS](https://www.cringely.com/2019/03/07/2019-predictions-2-and-3-a-virtual-private-cloud-vpc-shakeout-and-legal-trouble-for-aws/) - In 2019 VPC will come to mean AWS, Microsoft, and (maybe) Google, while the DoJ or FTC will try to break-up Amazon's VPC monopoly.
- [2019 Prediction #1 — Apple under Tim Cook emulates GE under Jack Welch](https://www.cringely.com/2019/02/27/2019-prediction-1-apple-under-tim-cook-emulates-ge-under-jack-welch/) - It's the same old Apple with the minor addition of what's effectively the world's largest hedge fund.
- [Bob's Predictions for 2019 -- The Year When Everything Changes... Forever](https://www.cringely.com/2019/02/25/bobs-predictions-for-2019-the-year-when-everything-changes-forever/) - New tech is coming but we as consumers are in major transitions of our own. It has as much to do with demographics as technology. So while I’ll be looking ahead all this week coming up with the usual 10 predictions, I want to make sure we all understand this isn’t business as usual. This time it really IS different.
- [Looking back at 2018 predictions, Bob was somehow 70 percent correct](https://www.cringely.com/2019/02/19/looking-back-at-2018-predictions-bob-was-somehow-70-percent-correct/) - Here are the tech predictions I made a year ago for 2018. Let's see how well (or poorly) I did before moving-on to my 2019 predictions.
- [Two thirds done, yet still writing predictions...](https://www.cringely.com/2019/01/28/two-thirds-done-yet-still-writing-predictions/) - Predictions for 2019 are coming starting tomorrow plus Bob comes clean on Mineserver and asks you to please stop bitching if you ever want product
- [Apple knows 5G is about infrastructure, NOT mobile phones](https://www.cringely.com/2018/11/21/apple-knows-5g-is-about-infrastructure-not-mobile-phones/) - 5G is overkill for phones but that's okay because for carriers it is really about destroying broadcast and cable TV, ISPs, and telephone companies. One network to rule them all.
- [Red Hat takes over IBM](https://www.cringely.com/2018/10/29/red-hat-takes-over-ibm/) - If I made a list of acquisitions and things to do to save IBM, buying Red Hat would have been very close to the top of that list. They should have bought Red Hat 10 years ago when the stock market was in the gutter. 
- [Remembering Paul Allen](https://www.cringely.com/2018/10/16/remembering-paul-allen/) - Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died yesterday at 65. He was a very reserved man, but a true enthusiast who lived a big life with curiosity and joy.
- [Triggering a Trump meltdown: What was the point of that anonymous Op-Ed piece, anyway?](https://www.cringely.com/2018/09/10/triggering-a-trump-meltdown-what-was-the-point-of-that-anonymous-op-ed-piece-anyway/) - The column, itself, is the intended headshot. The writers want to drive President Trump crazy, triggering a self-destructive act.
- [Kai-Fu Lee's new book says Artificial Intelligence will be Google vs China and will kill half the world's jobs](https://www.cringely.com/2018/08/31/kai-fu-lees-new-book-says-artificial-intelligence-will-be-google-vs-china-and-will-kill-half-the-worlds-jobs/) - Kai-Ful Lee's new book predicts a world dominated by Artificial Intelligence coming primarily from Google and China. AI's effect on the workforce will be profound with at least half of all jobs simply disappearing.
- [IT is urbanizing, McDonald's gets it, but Woonsocket doesn't (yet)](https://www.cringely.com/2018/08/08/it-is-urbanizing-mcdonalds-gets-it-but-woonsocket-doesnt-yet/) - IT is urbanizing — moving to city centers where the labor force is younger and more agile -- often taking the entire company HQ with them.
- [How to cut the cable yet stay within your bandwidth cap](https://www.cringely.com/2018/07/16/how-to-cut-the-cable-yet-stay-within-your-bandwidth-cap/) - Cable cutting for families like ours mean almost instantly blowing-through your ISP's bandwidth cap.
- [Cloud Computing May Finally End the Productivity Paradox](https://www.cringely.com/2018/05/21/cloud-computing-may-finally-end-the-productivity-paradox/) - The dirty secret of IT is that spending money on it doesn't actually increase organizational productivity, but that may finally be changing with cloud computing.
- [GDPR Kills the American Internet: Long Live the Internet!](https://www.cringely.com/2018/04/20/15514/) - GDPR, a European Union regulation to protect privacy, is effectively wresting control of the Internet away from ICANN and the United States. This is probably a good thing.
- [The space race is over and SpaceX won](https://www.cringely.com/2018/04/06/the-space-race-is-over-and-spacex-won/) - Elon Musk knows that for SpaceX to dominate, scale is everything
- [The real problem with self-driving cars](https://www.cringely.com/2018/03/26/the-real-problem-with-self-driving-cars/) - Self-driving cars tech has been coming for 25+ years and it used to make more sense for society than it does today. What went wrong?
- [Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and our personal data](https://www.cringely.com/2018/03/20/facebook-cambridge-analytica-and-our-personal-data/) - Our personal Facebook data is far more vulnerable than we ever thought, even without Cambridge Analytica. Uh-oh!
- [Stephen Hawking and me](https://www.cringely.com/2018/03/14/stephen-hawking-and-me/) - Remembering Stephen Hawking, who died this week at 76
- [We win, you lose: How shareholder value screwed the middle class](https://www.cringely.com/2018/02/26/win-lose-wall-street-screwed-middle-class/) - Based on a dubious theory of maximizing shareholder value, Wall Street has undermined the Middle Class for 40 years with horrible results
- [Predictions #8-10: Apple, IBM & Zuckerberg](https://www.cringely.com/2018/02/23/predictions-8-10-apple-ibm-zuckerber/) - Bob's final 2018 predictions for Apple, IBM, and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg
- [Prediction #7 — 2018 will see the first Alexa virus](https://www.cringely.com/2018/02/19/prediction-7-2018-will-see-the-first-alexa-virus/) - The first Alexa virus is coming according to my son Fallon, who was inspired by a new super hero show on Fox
- [Prediction #6 — AI comes of age, this time asking the questions, too](https://www.cringely.com/2018/02/08/prediction-6-artificial-intelligence-comes-of-age-with-questions-more-important-than-answers/) - Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning are starting to suggest important questions, not just answers
- [2018 Prediction #5 — The H-1B visa problem will NOT go away](https://www.cringely.com/2018/01/31/2018-prediction-5-h-1b-visa-problem-will-not-go-away/) - Immigration reform won't end H-1B abuse, just hurt Indian outsourcers, leaving U.S.. companies to do their own H-1B abusing.
- [Prediction #4 — Bitcoin stays crazy until traders learn it is not a currency](https://www.cringely.com/2018/01/24/prediction-4-bitcoin-crashes-booms-crashes-booms-2018-traders-figure-not-currency/) - Bitcoin is NOT a currency, it is a financial instrument -- a tool -- only most traders don't get that.
- [Prediction #3 -- 2018 foreign profit repatriation is a $591.8 BILLION taxpayer ripoff](https://www.cringely.com/2018/01/19/prediction-3-2018-foreign-profit-repatriation-591-8-billion-taxpayer-ripoff/) - Foreign tax repatriation will inevitably hurt more than it helps
- [Why do I do this to myself? Bob's first predictions for 2018](https://www.cringely.com/2018/01/16/bobs-first-predictions-2018/) - Predictions for 2018 but first a look back to see how well Bob did with his 2017 predictions
- [After surgery, a visionary finally sneaks back to work](https://www.cringely.com/2018/01/02/a-visionary-returns/) - Post-surgery, Bob finally shows up for work
- [Net Neutrality will die, so let's take the profit out of killing it.](https://www.cringely.com/2017/11/22/15471/) - Fighting the FCC is futile at this point, but Bob has a way to (in a way) save Net Neutrality
- [Amazon is Becoming the New Microsoft](https://www.cringely.com/2017/11/17/15468/) - Amazon.com is hugely dominant in cloud computing and behaving like Microsoft did in the 1990s
- [We've Reached the Cloud Computing Tipping Point](https://www.cringely.com/2017/10/30/weve-reached-cloud-computing-tipping-point/) - It’s only when their very existence is threatened that legacy vendors get really serious about future technologies like cloud computing
- [The Google Lunar X-Prize wasn't extended, it was ENDED](https://www.cringely.com/2017/08/25/the-google-lunar-x-prize-wasnt-extended-it-was-ended/) - Contest rules were changed either to help teams from India and Japan or they were intended to finally put a fullstop on the Google Lunar X-Prize.
- [A nanotechnology overnight sensation 30 years in the making!](https://www.cringely.com/2017/08/14/15453/) - A nanotechnology effect first observed in Russia 30 years ago means future atomic-scale manufacturing will lead to materials we can’t even imagine today.
- [Will Trump avoid military action against North Korean ICBMs?](https://www.cringely.com/2017/08/01/15446/) - The threat is real and both sides are kinda crazy. What will Trump do about North Korean ICBMs?
- [Cringely, like Milton, is blind. But Milton was a better writer.](https://www.cringely.com/2017/07/05/15443/) - Nothing from Cringely other than the dude is blind. So what else is new?
- [The Robots are Coming!](https://www.cringely.com/2017/06/05/the-robots-are-coming/) - Robots are getting faster than humans ever will be and the implications of this for manufacturing and the economy are profound.
- [Mineserver Update: We're not dead yet!](https://www.cringely.com/2017/05/22/mineserver-update-not-dead-yet/) - Mineserver: We're not dead yet!
- [Trump's 2016 Big Data political arms race](https://www.cringely.com/2017/05/12/2016-big-data-political-arms-race/) - Big Data decided elections and may decide elections from here on out. But that it happened first on one side rather than the other was probably just luck.
- [The Cloud Computing Tidal Wave](https://www.cringely.com/2017/05/04/cloud-computing-tidal-wave/) - Every new computing wave has losers as well as winners and that's the case with cloud computing, too.
- [Can Amazon's Echo Dot Make a Good SIDS Alarm?](https://www.cringely.com/2017/04/26/15429/) - I realized tonight talking about it with my surviving children that we’re now in an era where a cloud SIDS alarm is really possible
- [Remembering Bob Taylor](https://www.cringely.com/2017/04/17/remembering-bob-taylor/) - Far more than Al Gore, Bob Taylor had a good claim to being the Father of the Internet
- [How to Get Rich Trading Bitcoin](https://www.cringely.com/2017/04/04/get-rich-trading-bitcoins/) - I never thought of Bitcoin as something that could be rationally traded. I was wrong.
- [Wikileaks finds a business model](https://www.cringely.com/2017/03/22/wikileaks-finds-new-business-model/) - Has Wikileaks found a new business model? When organized crime offers assistance against a threat they effectively control it’s called a Protection Racket.
- [The CIA, WikiLeaks and Spy Versus Spy](https://www.cringely.com/2017/03/10/wikileaks-and-spy-versus-spy/) - There are no innocents in this CIA counter-espionage story. Everyone is guilty.
- [Remember Pirates of Silicon Valley? I sure do.](https://www.cringely.com/2017/02/20/remember-pirates-silicon-valley/) - How Pirates of Silicon Valley changed my life
- [No fracking way! Fukushima is worse than ever](https://www.cringely.com/2017/02/16/no-fracking-way-fukushima-daiichi-worse-ever/) - Far from being over, the Fukushima nuclear meltdown is continuing, the public health nightmare increasing.
- [Trump's anti-H-1B order won't be what it seems](https://www.cringely.com/2017/02/06/trumps-upcoming-move-h-1b-visas/) - An upcoming Executive Order may lead to fewer H-1B visas but more of the little-known L-1B visas.
- [Four more predictions for 2017](https://www.cringely.com/2017/01/27/four-predictions-2017/) - Last week a reader told me that six predictions for 2017 weren’t enough and that I owed him four more, so here they are.
- [Bob's Big Picture technology predictions for 2017](https://www.cringely.com/2017/01/09/15395/) - If 2016 was the year of the cloud, Bob's predictions say 2017 will be the year of the CLOUD!!!
- [News we aren't supposed to know](https://www.cringely.com/2016/12/15/news-arent-supposed-know/) - My last column was about fake news. This one is about real news you never hear about.
- [What's Real about Fake News](https://www.cringely.com/2016/12/08/whats-real-fake-news/) - The key to keeping fake news OUT is to put real news IN.
- [Welcome to the Post-Decision Age](https://www.cringely.com/2016/11/28/post-decision-age/) - The Post-Decision Age means we can’t implement policies at scale without help from computers. Yet humans no longer understand the underlying algorithms.
- [Saving the Internet of Things (IoT)](https://www.cringely.com/2016/11/17/saving-internet-things/) - The Internet-of-Things (IOT) is hugely vulnerable to hacking as the Dyn DDoS attack shows. Fortunately Bob has a solution.
- [President Trump: The Hangover](https://www.cringely.com/2016/11/09/election-2016-hangover/) - People will believe the worst of Trump or hope for the best and both will be inevitably disappointed.
- [What the heck is happening at Apple?](https://www.cringely.com/2016/10/31/heck-happened-apple/) - Apple's not in trouble (yet) but here's how Cupertino can get its mojo back
- [Social media? Bob needs a social mediaTOR](https://www.cringely.com/2016/10/25/social-media-bob-needs-social-mediator/) - How one nerd decides which social media matters
- [Losing sight of the news](https://www.cringely.com/2016/10/15/losing-sight-news/) - Bob hasn't written lately because cataracts are making him lose his sight.
- [Fifteen years after 9-11 threats have evolved, too](https://www.cringely.com/2016/09/12/15364/) - Fifteen years after 9-11 we're probably a little safer (not much) but new threats are emerging
- [What Carrie Underwood's success teaches us about IBM's Watson failure](https://www.cringely.com/2016/09/07/carrie-underwoods-american-idol-success-teaches-us-ibms-watson-failure/) - American Idol hid Carrie Underwood's huge success just as IBM is hiding Watson's utter failure
- [John Ellenby dies at 75](https://www.cringely.com/2016/08/27/john-ellenby-dies-75/) - John Ellenby pioneered four industry segments just like Steve Jobs. But where Steve was difficult and cranky, John was elegant and funny.
- [The self-driving car is old enough to drink and drive](https://www.cringely.com/2016/08/25/self-driving-car-old-enough-drink-drive/) - Self-driving cars are coming and you probably won't be allowed to keep your old ride
- [Moon Express gets FAA "approval" for Moon mission](https://www.cringely.com/2016/08/11/15349/) - Alas, the FAA has no such authority to approve Moon landings
- [Outsourced IT probably hurt Delta Airlines when their power went out](https://www.cringely.com/2016/08/08/outsourced-probably-hurt-delta-airlines-power-went/) - Delta Airlines last night suffered a data center power outage stranding flights worldwide. Having outsourced and offshored IT didn't help.
- [Famous American blogger strikes back against China](https://www.cringely.com/2016/07/27/15345/) - My recent column about online journalism was translated by a web site in China, violating my copyright and (I fear) twisting my words.
- [Is anyone at Yahoo! paying attention? Probably not.](https://www.cringely.com/2016/07/26/15343/) - Bob's advice for Yahoo! TWO YEARS AGO is still good today. But will they take it?
- [A PayPal Mystery](https://www.cringely.com/2016/07/18/a-paypal-mystery/) - Customers are buying software with PayPal but never unlocking it. Have you seen this before?
- [Why SoftBank is paying $32 billion for ARM Holdings](https://www.cringely.com/2016/07/18/softbank-paying-32-billion-arm-holdings/) - The only way SoftBank can justify paying such a high price for ARM is if Mr. Son is about to change ARM’s business model.
- [Thinking about Big Data -- Part Three (the final and somewhat scary part)](https://www.cringely.com/2016/07/11/thinking-big-data-part-3-final-part/) - Our future is being redefined by Big Data in ways we are only now coming to understand and may no longer be able to control.
- [Thinking about Big Data -- Part Two](https://www.cringely.com/2016/07/07/15306/) - Big Data made Cloud Computing necessary. Today it is hard to differentiate between them.
- [Thinking about Big Data -- Part One](https://www.cringely.com/2016/07/05/thinking-big-data-part-one/) - Big Data is about to transform the world. Big Data will drive our technological development for the next hundred years.
- [What's the deal with online journalism?](https://www.cringely.com/2016/06/28/15290/) - Here, with a little mild editing, is my Quora answer to "What are the flaws in online journalism and media today?" And "How can they be addressed?"
- [Remembering Brentrance (not Brexit) and Steve Jobs returns to Netflix](https://www.cringely.com/2016/06/23/remembering-brentrance-not-brexit-steve-jobs-returns-netflix/) - Before Brexit there was Brentrance and Bob was there.
- [LinkedIn gets lucky](https://www.cringely.com/2016/06/16/linkedin-got-lucky/) - LinkedIn was at a peak and lucky to be acquired by Microsoft.
- [The mainframe is dead. Long live the mainframe!](https://www.cringely.com/2016/06/15/mainframe-dead-long-live-mainframe/) - IBM's mainframe division is for sale with Hitachi the most likely buyer.
- [What does Bill Gates know about raising chickens?](https://www.cringely.com/2016/06/10/bill-gates-knows-about-raising-chickens/) - A real chicken farmer says Bill Gates's ideas about raising chickens will hirt -- not help -- the Third World.
- [My first Seeking Alpha post ran today](https://www.cringely.com/2016/05/31/first-seeking-alpha-post-ran-today/) - I have a post on Seeking Alpha that shows how IBM is using quarterly earnings to mislead investors.
- [The Problem with Analytics](https://www.cringely.com/2016/05/23/the-problem-with-analytics/) - IBM's analytics reorganization may please Wall Street but it may prove CAMSS has already failed
- [Apple and Didi is about foreign cash and the future of motoring](https://www.cringely.com/2016/05/14/apple-and-didi-is-about-foreign-cash-and-the-future-of-motoring/) - The Didi investment is Apple's unique way to solve a financial problem and at the same time buy a leadership position in the second automotive age.
- [Why wind turbines have three blades](https://www.cringely.com/2016/05/06/15262/) - Why wind turbines have three blades
- [Searching for a nanotech self-organizing principle](https://www.cringely.com/2016/04/29/15259/) - A self organizing principle could allow us to make amazing nanotech materials in large quantities at low cost, taking them literally from the air
- [Our $27,500 drone. Do you have one, too?](https://www.cringely.com/2016/04/15/the-27500-drone-that-you-may-have-too/) - Your unregistered drone can lead to fines up to $27,500.
- [Is IBM guilty of age discrimination? -- Part two](https://www.cringely.com/2016/04/06/is-ibm-guilty-of-age-discrimination-part-2/) - IBM may be flaunting government reporting rules to get away with age discrimination
- [Is IBM guilty of age discrimination? -- Part one](https://www.cringely.com/2016/03/28/is-ibm-guilty-of-age-discrimination-part-one/) - Is IBM guilty of age discrimination in its recent huge layoff of U.S. workers? Frankly I don't know. But I know how to find out, and this is part one of tha
- [Equity crowdfunding finally arrives May 15th: curb your enthusiasm](https://www.cringely.com/2016/03/28/equity-crowdfunding-finally-arrives-may-15th-curb-your-enthusiasm/) - Equity crowdfunding is coming but few American investors or entrepreneurs will benefit
- [YouTube's Olympian Recovery](https://www.cringely.com/2012/08/02/youtubes-olympian-recovery/) - YouTube's live video of the 2012 Olympics was bad but now is better.
- [Avram Miller on the death yesterday of Intel's Andy Grove](https://www.cringely.com/2016/03/22/avram-miller-on-the-death-yesterday-of-intels-andy-grove/) - Avram Miller, who is my friend and neighbor here in rural Sonoma County, wrote a very insightful post on the passing of Andy Grove. It's well worth reading. My own experience with Andy Grove was limited. I knew Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore much better. But I do recall a time when Grove and I
- [Ginni the Eagle: IBM’s Corporate “Transformation”](https://www.cringely.com/2016/03/22/ginni-the-eagle-ibms-corporate-transformation/) - IBM's "transformation" is all about products when it should be transforming Big Blue's corporate culture.
- [$99 Mineserver: The Devil is in the Details](https://www.cringely.com/2016/03/17/99-mineserver-the-devil-is-in-the-details/) - An update on my kids' Mineserver project
- [What's happening at IBM (it's dying)](https://www.cringely.com/2016/03/08/whats-happening-at-ibm/) - IBM's corporate transformation isn't working and the company is failing
- [The FBI v. Apple isn’t at all the way you think it is](https://www.cringely.com/2016/02/19/the-fbi-v-apple-isnt-at-all-the-way-you-think-it-is/) - Apple isn't really defying the FBI but helping the Department of Justice play a constitutional game 
- [Why Apple doesn't sell televisions](https://www.cringely.com/2016/02/10/why-apple-doesnt-sell-televisions/) - Apple could buy Dolby Labs and control the future of video
- [Amazon bookstores: It's the drones, stupid](https://www.cringely.com/2016/02/04/amazon-bookstores-its-all-about-the-drones-stupid/) - Amazon retail bookstores will really be delivery bases for drones
- [Personal computers approach retirement age](https://www.cringely.com/2016/01/30/the-personal-computer-approaches-retirement-age/) - Personal computers went from computational devices to communication devices. We morphed our desktops into smart phones.
- [Final Prediction #10: Apple will buy Dish Network](https://www.cringely.com/2016/01/22/final-prediction-10-apple-will-buy-dish-network/) - I think Apple will buy Dish Network, the satellite TV broadcaster, creating overnight an over-the-top Internet cable system.
- [Prediction #9: Intel starts to become irrelevant](https://www.cringely.com/2016/01/21/prediction-8-intel-starts-to-become-irrelevent/) - I just have to say what a perilous position Intel is in. The company truly risks becoming irrelevant
- [Lost Prediction #4 -- My Steve Jobs movie returns to Netflix](https://www.cringely.com/2016/01/19/lost-prediction-4-my-steve-jobs-movie-returns-to-netflix/) - Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview will shortly return to Netflix worldwide!
- [Prediction #8: Apple WILL NOT buy Time Warner](https://www.cringely.com/2016/01/15/prediction-8-apple-will-not-buy-time-warner/) - Apple won't buy Time Warner because doing so would be too disruptive to the acquiring company and Steve Jobs would appear in Tim Cook's dreams to torment him about it.
- [Prediction #7: Internet of Things becomes a security nightmare](https://www.cringely.com/2016/01/13/prediction-7-internet-of-things-is-a-security-nightmare/) - The Internet of Things will become a data security nightmare in 2016. 
- [IBM loses its mind](https://www.cringely.com/2016/01/11/wheres-the-beef-ibm/) - This came in today from an IBM customer. Sure enough, as of this morning he's correct: This morning I needed to check to see if one of IBM's products would run on a particular version of an operating system. I went out the IBM U.S. website to look. I can't find the product. I can't find
- [Predictions 5 & 6: Drones and driverless cars? Not this year](https://www.cringely.com/2016/01/07/predictions-5-6-drones-and-driverless-cars-not-this-year/) - When it comes to predictions it is often easiest just to take some really popular new technology and point out the obvious time it will take to be actually adopted. You could say I'm doing that here with drone deliveries and driverless cars, but I like to think my value-added is explaining why these will
- [Predictions #2 (and 3?): Microsoft and Apple hit walls](https://www.cringely.com/2016/01/06/2016-prediction-2-and-3-microsoft-and-apple-hit-walls/) - It isn't easy being huge as both Apple and Microsoft are starting to realize. Both companies are incredibly successful and I'm not here to say either is in real danger, but both are suffering major structural challenges that will hurt them in 2016. What's key for these predictions is how they respond. I'll deal with
- [2016 Prediction #1 -- Beginning of the end for engineering workstations](https://www.cringely.com/2016/01/05/2016-prediction-1-beginning-of-the-end-for-engineering-workstations/) - Engineering workstations and gaming computers will start to be supplanted by the graphical cloud 
- [Welcome to 2016 Predictions Week!](https://www.cringely.com/2016/01/04/welcome-to-2016-predictions-week/) - Readers love predictions so for 15 years or so I've been making lots of them during the first full week of each new year. The first time I did a predictions column it was because I couldn't think of anything else to write about that day and the reaction from readers was so strong that
- [My fridge is listening to me](https://www.cringely.com/2015/12/04/my-fridge-is-listening-to-me/) - The Department of Homeland Security is listening to us
- [Soylent Green -- Now Made with More Women!](https://www.cringely.com/2015/11/30/soylent-green-now-made-with-more-women/) - Soylent Green is the punchline of a bad joke told by my son, but is perfect for a column about women executives being chewed-up by their corporate machines.
- [Amazon's cloud monopoly](https://www.cringely.com/2015/11/02/amazons-cloud-monopoly/) - Amazon has monopoly power over the public cloud because it clearly sets the price (ever downward) and has the capacity to enforce that price.
- [Why Yahoo is worth less than nothing](https://www.cringely.com/2015/10/21/why-yahoo-is-worth-less-than-nothing/) - Marissa Mayer has a chance to renew her mandate if she proposes changes that are bold enough to shock and awe Yahoo shareholders.
- [Last chance to get a Mineserver™ for Christmas!](https://www.cringely.com/2015/10/19/last-chance-to-get-a-mineserver-for-christmas/) - There is one more day to make your pledge -- the only way to get a Mineserver™ or Mineserver Pro™ in time for Christmas.
- [It's Michael Dell versus the world and Dell will win](https://www.cringely.com/2015/10/14/its-michael-dell-versus-the-world-and-dell-will-win/) - I’m not saying it’s game over but corporate IT is about to radically change and Dell will be the big winner.
- [Dell buys EMC and gets the corporate cloud for free](https://www.cringely.com/2015/10/12/dell-buys-emc-and-gets-the-corporate-cloud-for-free/) - All the people who want to spin-off or sell VMware don’t seem to realize that’s where the value of this EMC deal lies for Dell.
- [The Cringely boys Kickstart Mineserver™, a $99 Minecraft server](https://www.cringely.com/2015/09/29/the-cringely-boys-kickstart-mineserver-a-99-minecraft-server/) - The wonder is not that they started Mineserver or finished it but that our technical culture has reached the point where such a thing is actually doable.
- [Chinese talking cybersecurity means security is already lost](https://www.cringely.com/2015/09/25/chinese-talking-cybersecurity-means-security-is-already-lost/) - With the Chinese President here for cybersecurity talks we’ve probably co-created a Big Data edition of Cold War Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).
- [Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine](https://www.cringely.com/2015/09/16/steve-jobs-the-man-in-the-machine/) - Alex Gibney's film purports to figure out what made Steve Jobs tick. And it does a lot, just not that.
- [Another 9/11 anniversary passes quietly](https://www.cringely.com/2015/09/12/another-911-anniversary-passes-quietly/) - The 9/11 anniversary of 9/11 was most noteworthy because the people who mentioned the attack to me weren’t American, and for them it seemed oddly nostalgic.
- [Evil Google waiting on line one](https://www.cringely.com/2015/09/07/evil-google-waiting-on-line-one/) - Google has been calling me and I don't like it.
- [Google's OnHub router may save WiFi from itself](https://www.cringely.com/2015/08/21/googles-onhub-router-may-save-wifi-from-itself/) - If WiFi is the future of the Internet then Google’s future success is dependent on making WiFi work better, hence the router.
- [How I (and you?) am hurting the PC industry](https://www.cringely.com/2015/08/14/how-i-and-you-am-hurting-the-pc-industry/) - I have no immediate plans to replace the MacBook Pro and I think that goes a long way to explain why the PC industry is having sales problems.
- [Who is your IT outsourcing firm working for?](https://www.cringely.com/2015/07/30/who-is-your-it-outsourcing-firm-working-for/) - The outsourcing and offshoring of IT makes cyber crime a lot easier.
- [IBM is so screwed](https://www.cringely.com/2015/07/21/ibm-is-so-screwed/) - Of all the new businesses that will supposedly drag IBM out of the mess it's in only data security has a chance, and that’s if they don’t blow that, too.
- [Remember when technology was exciting?](https://www.cringely.com/2015/07/13/remember-when-technology-was-exciting/) - As technology has become more vital to our lives we've paradoxically become less interested, or do less reaching out.
- [The U.S. computer industry is dying and I’ll tell you exactly who is killing it and why](https://www.cringely.com/2015/06/24/the-u-s-computer-industry-is-dying-and-ill-tell-you-exactly-who-is-killing-it-and-why/) - We've lost consumer electronics, half of the automotive industry, millions of manufacturing jobs, and we're about to lose our computer industry, too.
- [Fathers Day 2015](https://www.cringely.com/2015/06/21/fathers-day-2015/) - Fathers Day
- [The H-1B visa program is a scam](https://www.cringely.com/2015/06/15/the-h-1b-visa-program-is-a-scam/) - IMHO, the intent of the H-1B program is valid and correct. The implementation and administration are horrible.
- [Disney's IT troubles go beyond H-IBs](https://www.cringely.com/2015/06/12/disneys-it-troubles-go-beyond-h-ibs/) - Disney's H-1B crisis also involves IT mismanagement
- [Autodesk's John Walker explained HP and IBM in 1991](https://www.cringely.com/2015/06/03/autodesks-john-walker-explained-hp-and-ibm-in-1991/) - One reader of this column in particular has been urging me to abandon for a moment my obsession with IBM and look, instead, at his employer -- Hewlett Packard. HP, he tells me, suffers from all the same problems as IBM while lacking IBM’s depth and resources. And he’s correct: HP is a shadow of
- [Apple TV's 4K Future](https://www.cringely.com/2015/05/27/apple-tvs-4k-future/) - Apple wants to own television -- not just broadcast TV or cable TV or even Over-the-Top streaming TV. With the new Apple TV, Apple wants to own it all.
- [Sadie's Apple Watch Arrived Two Weeks Early](https://www.cringely.com/2015/05/19/sadies-apple-watch-arrived-two-weeks-early/) - Sadie's Apple Watch arrived two weeks early.
- [The KickStarter Paradox](https://www.cringely.com/2015/05/13/the-kickstarter-paradox/) - Should Bob Cringely mount a KickStarter or IndieGoGo funding campaign for his Startup America series on PBS?
- [Your PBX has been hacked!](https://www.cringely.com/2015/05/02/your-pbx-has-been-hacked/) - The global phone network allows evil-doers to call us directly and moving your PBX out of the closet and into the cloud doesn't especially help.
- [A tale of three voicemails](https://www.cringely.com/2015/05/01/a-tale-of-three-voicemails/) - I have three sons -- all bright boys, full of energy, and completely different from each other. You can see this even in their approach to voicemail.
- [AWS shows Cloud is NOT a high-margin business](https://www.cringely.com/2015/04/27/aws-shows-cloud-is-not-a-high-margin-business/) - AWS proves Cloud by itself is like the PC business, high volume, low margin.
- [Where the money is... or was](https://www.cringely.com/2015/04/15/where-the-money-is-or-was/) - Cybersecurity failures may shortly bring certain aspects of the U.S. economy -- and our money -- to its knees.
- [Mainframe2 runs super-powerful Windows apps in the cloud](https://www.cringely.com/2013/10/15/mainframe2-runs-super-powerful-windows-apps-cloud/) - Mainframe2 can put almost any Windows application into the cloud, making apps usable from any device that can run a web browser supporting html5.
- [The Net Neutrality Mystery](https://www.cringely.com/2015/03/31/the-net-neutrality-mystery/) - President Obama gets the net neutrality law he wanted all along but couldn’t rely on his party to produce. Can this have been the point all along?
- [The Indiana Pi Bill, Ellen Pao, and IBM](https://www.cringely.com/2015/03/30/the-indiana-pi-bill-ellen-pao-and-ibm/) - I think the Ellen Pao verdict was the right one. The VC industry has problems in this area but Kleiner Perkins was the worst possible target.
- [Net Neutrality, Apple, and the future of TV](https://www.cringely.com/2015/03/18/net-neutrality-apple-and-the-future-of-tv/) - While FCC Net Neutrality actions probably help Apple (and Netflix, and most likely you and me, too), these changes have been coming for a long time.
- [Be a cloud storage tycoon with Google Nearline](https://www.cringely.com/2015/03/16/be-a-cloud-storage-tycoon-with-google-nearline/) - Cloud storage price competition is going away and the price per bit at every cloud storage vendor will shortly be the same — zero.
- [The sky is falling and the FAA isn't ready](https://www.cringely.com/2015/03/09/the-sky-is-falling-and-the-faa-isnt-ready/) - The GAO says the U.S. airspace system is incredibly vulnerable to hacking and the FAA will take years to fix the problems
- [Reporter's Notebook: Yahoo, IBM, IEEE and me](https://www.cringely.com/2015/02/19/reporters-notebook-yahoo-ibm-ieee/) - Stories continue to come across my desk showing both the mean spirit and delusion that seem to be the dominant themes these days at IBM.
- [Entrepreneurism and the politics of hope](https://www.cringely.com/2015/02/24/entrepreneurism-and-the-politics-of-hope/) - our greatest opportunity lies these days in entrepreneurism
- [Remembering Radio Shack](https://www.cringely.com/2015/02/11/remembering-radio-shack/) - While Radio Shack still sells computers (at least for a few weeks longer) the company’s computer heyday peaked around 1980 -- 35 years ago.
- [IBM is right, I am a gadfly](https://www.cringely.com/2015/01/26/ibm-right-gadfly/) - I think IBM is dissembling, fixating on the term 110,000 layoffs, which by the way I never used. IBM is playing word games to obscure the truth.
- [IBM's reorg-from-Hell launches next week](https://www.cringely.com/2015/01/22/ibms-reorg-hell-launches-next-week/) - Project Chrome starts next week when 26 percent of IBM employees will get calls from their managers. By the end of February all 26 percent will be gone.
- [2015 Predictions: It's about the money, stupid!](https://www.cringely.com/2015/01/16/2015-predictions-money-stupid/) - 2015 predictions will be the Year of Monetization -- the year when showing profits will become a key motivator in almost every technology market.
- [2015 Will Be the Year When Nothing Happened](https://www.cringely.com/2015/01/12/2015-will-year-nothing-happened/) - Why 2015 will be the year when nothing happened.
- [But first a look back at Bob's predictions for 2014](https://www.cringely.com/2015/01/09/first-look-back-bobs-predictions-2014/) - Let’s look back at my predictions from a year ago to see how I did.
- [Can it be that time already? Call for 2015 predictions!](https://www.cringely.com/2014/12/30/can-time-already-call-2015-predictions/) - The Cringelys are back from Christmas in Hawaii and so I'm back to work. Alaska Airlines changed our flight to Kona in August but either never told Orbitz or Orbitz wasn't listening so we got to the San Jose Airport 3.5 hours earlier than we needed to, having left Santa Rosa at 2AM. Note the
- [Executive ego and the Sony Pictures network hack](https://www.cringely.com/2014/12/10/executive-ego-sony-pictures-network-hack/) - Security at Sony Pictures wasn’t breached, it was abandoned, and this recent hack is the perfectly logical result.
- [TV 3.0 is already here](https://www.cringely.com/2014/12/01/tv-3-0-already/) - Forces are already in motion that will transform TV. Two years from today TV will be different with a few new leaders and a few icons gone bust.
- [How to fix IBM](https://www.cringely.com/2014/10/27/fix-ibm/) - IBM has no vision, none, nada, zip. CEO Ginni Rometty and her cadre have no clue how to fix what’s wrong with IBM. They have to be replaced.
- [Ginni comes to her senses, but too late for IBM?](https://www.cringely.com/2014/10/21/ginni-comes-senses-late-ibm/) - The market will probably let Ginni invest to save IBM’s core businesses. But it isn’t clear she knows where to invest or even why.
- [IBM's Power8 servers are less than meets the eye](https://www.cringely.com/2014/10/12/ibms-power8-servers-less-meets-eye/) - IBM is marketing a 2016 line of Power8 vaporware against a 2014 Intel spec. No wonder it looks so good!
- [To stop data theft, pull the plug](https://www.cringely.com/2014/10/09/stop-data-theft-pull-plug/) - It makes no sense, none, nada, for a bank to send financial transactions over the public Internet risking data theft.
- [Why I have grown to hate steamgames.com](https://www.cringely.com/2014/10/07/grown-hate-steamgames-com/) - It only makes sense that steamgames.com wants kids like mine to buy stuff using whatever means they have available. Maybe their parents won't notice.
- [One way (maybe the only way) Yahoo can succeed](https://www.cringely.com/2014/09/30/one-way-maybe-way-yahoo-can-succeed/) - Turn Yahoo into a Silicon Valley version of Berkshire Hathaway. That way Yahoo could literally own the future of tech.
- [The Enemy in HR](https://www.cringely.com/2014/09/28/enemy-hr/) - HR filters job candidates. They use heuristics — sorting techniques designed to get good candidates without really knowing good from bad. This is bad.
- [Apple proves that moats are for dummies](https://www.cringely.com/2014/09/15/apple-proves-moats-dummies/) - Warren Buffett loves moats, Apple doesn’t believe in them, and — for the kinds of businesses Apple and IBM are in — Apple is right and Warren is wrong.
- [Mobile Carriers Are Trying To Control Your Texting](https://www.cringely.com/2014/09/11/mobile-carriers-trying-control-texting/) - When it comes to texting, the major wireless carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon) claim they own your number and can charge extra to reach you.
- [Fear and loathing in Rolex-ville](https://www.cringely.com/2014/09/10/fear-loathing-rolex-ville/) - The Apple Watch Edition is aimed squarely at Rolex. It is Apple’s first-ever true luxury product.
- [Oh Vern, where art thou?](https://www.cringely.com/2014/09/08/oh-vern-art-thou/) - LinkedIn suggested people I might contact who are LIKE Vern Raburn. If it actually worked this could be the apex of social networking, but it doesn't work.
- [An economist walks into a bar...](https://www.cringely.com/2014/09/08/economist-walks-bar/) - The other day I watched a very good TED talk by my friend economist Bob Litan in which he defended his entire profession. I know no braver man.
- [Home Depot and the smoking zip-zap machine](https://www.cringely.com/2014/09/02/home-depot-smoking-zip-zap-machine/) - Home Depot was hacked. It’s a testament to employee training they so smoothly launched into a lie, but lying to customers is probably not a good idea.
- [Refresh mobile hits the desktop](https://www.cringely.com/2014/08/29/refresh-mobile-hits-desktop/) - Mobile is important, but we still have 200 million desktops in this country and those were deprived of Refresh-style social intelligence.
- [For future computing, look (as always) to Star Trek](https://www.cringely.com/2014/08/13/future-computing-look-always-star-trek/) - The computer on Star Trek went a long way back in 1966 toward describing mobile computing circa 2016, or certainly 2020.
- [The Age of Supply, not Demand](https://www.cringely.com/2014/08/06/age-supply-demand/) - Demand drove supply in the industrial age. But today it seems that supply is actually driving demand.
- [My sister's a quilter and Google mugged her!](https://www.cringely.com/2013/12/10/sisters-quilter-google-mugged/) - Approximately three months ago Google Search decided that Portrait Quilts does not exist.
- [The Fed suckered IBM into a failing cloud strategy?](https://www.cringely.com/2014/07/25/fed-suckered-ibm-failing-cloud-strategy/) - Cloud computing has become a commodity and IBM has never been successful in a commodity business.
- [IBM and Apple just not that big a deal](https://www.cringely.com/2014/07/16/ibm-apple-just-big-deal/) - Apple will sell a ton of iPads and iPhones and IBM will make some money from that. IBM business apps will be less successful but there may be a few that appear. iOS cloud services from IBM won’t happen.
- [The Coming Microsoft Cultural Revolution](https://www.cringely.com/2014/07/15/coming-microsoft-cultural-revolution/) - Microsoft has a corrosive management culture that tends to work against true innovation. Nadella’s biggest challenge is to change that culture.
- [Bitcoin quietly goes legit](https://www.cringely.com/2014/07/02/bitcoin-quietly-goes-legit/) - This auction effectively legitimizes Bitcoins as part of the world economy.
- [The Secret of Google X](https://www.cringely.com/2014/06/27/secret-google-x/) - The real output of Google X isn’t progress, it’s keeping Google co-founder Sergey Brin out of CEO Larry Page’s hair.
- [IBM back in the USSR?](https://www.cringely.com/2014/06/15/ibm-back-ussr/) - IBM in 2014 is like the USSR in 1988.
- [Analyzing IBM Analytics](https://www.cringely.com/2014/06/10/analyzing-ibm-analytics/) - Some of my IBM eBook readers disagree with my assertion that IBM analytics will probably not be a successful business, so here's a deeper look.
- [The Decline and Fall of IBM](https://www.cringely.com/2014/06/04/decline-fall-ibm/) - Bob's new eBook, The Decline and Fall of IBM, is finally available on Amazon.com.
- [Apple's iPad Problem](https://www.cringely.com/2014/05/19/apples-ipad-problem/) - Apple’s iPad sales are dropping you see and the reason nobody seems to talk about is they don’t wear out.
- [Did the NSA help kill UWB?](https://www.cringely.com/2014/05/15/nsa-help-kill-uwb/) - Did the NSA help the FCC to kill UWB? NSA would have opposed the new technology that defeated all their snooping work to date.
- [Level3 is without peer, now what to do?](https://www.cringely.com/2014/05/06/14890/) - Some major ISPs appear to be attempting to extort money in exchange for peering with Level3
- [When are economic sanctions not sanctions at all?](https://www.cringely.com/2014/04/30/economic-sanctions-sanctions/) - The economic sanctions on Russia may have some effect, but not for at least another year. The only people being hurt now are Americans.
- [Avram Miller says Steve Jobs has one more Apple intro](https://www.cringely.com/2014/04/28/avram-miller-says-steve-jobs-one-apple-intro/) - Steve Jobs years ago ordered an anti-Google ad-free search service called Found and will make a recorded appearance at the 2015 launch event.
- [Digital Me: Will the next Cringely be from Gmail?](https://www.cringely.com/2014/04/23/digital-will-next-cringely-gmail/) - My using Gmail gives them the right to produce “derivative works.”
- [Big Data is the new Artificial Intelligence](https://www.cringely.com/2014/04/15/big-data-new-artificial-intelligence/) - In today’s version of Artificial Intelligence we don’t need to teach our computers to perform human tasks: they teach themselves.
- [Some thoughts on the passing of Windows XP](https://www.cringely.com/2014/04/09/thoughts-passing-windows-xp/) - Windows XP is now 12 years old. Today Microsoft officially ended support for XP. Just remember it is the applications that provide the value.
- [Facebook drones won't work for aerial Internet](https://www.cringely.com/2014/03/31/facebook-drones-wont-work-aerial-internet/) - Facebook drones won’t work for an Internet in the sky but satellites will.
- [Google Earth is now on Mainframe2](https://www.cringely.com/2014/03/26/google-earth-microsoft-word-now-mainframe2/) - Addition of Google and Microsoft to the Mainframe2 list gives this little company an huge lead in cross-platform cloud support for desktop applications.
- [So Pat McGovern walks into a bar...](https://www.cringely.com/2014/03/20/pat-mcgovern-comes-bar/) - Pat McGovern died this week at 76 in Palo Alto. He was an exceptional person and I’d like to tell you why.
- [An impending black swan for electric cars](https://www.cringely.com/2014/03/19/impending-black-swan-electric-cars/) - The black swan is better and cheaper battery technology for electric cars to really break out and I am sure that’s coming.
- [Bitcoin is down but not out](https://www.cringely.com/2014/03/12/bitcoin/) - Bitcoin is down but not out
- [pCell is only as good as the Linux it runs on](https://www.cringely.com/2014/03/06/pcell-good-linux-runs/) - pCell is amazing. It is also probably a security nightmare waiting to happen.
- [WhatsApp is the first of several big acquisitions for Facebook](https://www.cringely.com/2014/02/20/whatsapp-first-several-big-acquisitions-facebook/) - Facebook would have paid for WhatsApp, in fact, but they had to leave something for their next big acquisition, coming soon.
- [As Seen on TV: ThreeDrive, from CringeCo](https://www.cringely.com/2014/02/19/seen-tv-threedrive-cringeco/) - In a few minutes I had turned my OneDrive into a virtual ThreeDrive and exceeded my 30 gigabyte storage goal, making it to a total of 31.
- [Apple needs Time-Warner Cable more than does Comcast](https://www.cringely.com/2014/02/13/apple-needs-time-warner-cable-comcast/) - Apple TV should thwart Comcast and buy Time-Warner Cable if Cupertino really wants to change television
- [Nadella's success at Microsoft probably depends on Gates](https://www.cringely.com/2014/02/05/nadellas-success-microsoft-probably-depends-gates/) - Only Gates will be able to stand between Ballmer and Nadella and, frankly, spare Nadella's job.
- [IBM sells Intel server business, company is doomed](https://www.cringely.com/2014/01/23/ibm-sells-intel-server-business-company-doomed/) - IBM selling its Intel server business to Lenovo is Big Blue eating its seed corn, effectively dooming the company for the sake of short-term earnings.
- [Net neutrality is dead, but it probably doesn't matter](https://www.cringely.com/2014/01/21/net-neutrality-dead-probably-doesnt-matter/) - Net neutrality is dead, but it probably doesn't matter
- [The Internet of Crap](https://www.cringely.com/2014/01/13/internet-crap/) - The Internet of Everything puts intelligence in all devices and connects them over the Internet. But everything is also what we'll first have to throw away.
- [Final 2014 prediction: the end of the PC as we knew it](https://www.cringely.com/2014/01/10/final-2014-prediction-end-pc-knew/) - 2014 prediction: the next PC I buy for my kids won’t be a PC at all, but a phone.
- [Bill Gates and the non-prediction prediction](https://www.cringely.com/2014/01/09/bill-gates-non-prediction-prediction/) - At this point in Microsoft’s history the only CEO who could follow Steve Ballmer and be more or less guaranteed to be successful is Bill Gates.
- [Ten technology predictions for 2014](https://www.cringely.com/2014/01/08/ten-technology-business-predictions-2014/) - This column is mainly about business predictions for 2014 while the follow-up column will be more about products and technologies.
- [Where's that Black Swan when we need one?](https://www.cringely.com/2014/01/08/wheres-black-swan-need-one/) - If I really knew what I was doing here I’d be proposing a short list of Black Swans. God I wish I could do that. I wish YOU had done it.
- [A Tree Falls in Reston](https://www.cringely.com/2014/01/06/tree-falls-reston/) - Lois Cringely passed away last week at my sister’s home in Reston, Virginia at age 89, 23 years after my father yet far too soon for anyone who knew her.
- [Call for 2014 predictions!](https://www.cringely.com/2013/12/29/call-2014-predictions/) - I really need your suggestions for my annual predictions column
- [RSA takes one for the team, but which team?](https://www.cringely.com/2013/12/24/rsa-takes-one-team-team/) - RSA is lying. No room for ambiguity on this one. The back-doored RNG was a blatantly obvious scam and they made it the default anyway.
- [Some thoughts on how a Grinch stole Target's Christmas](https://www.cringely.com/2013/12/20/thoughts-grinch-stole-targets-christmas/) - Someone probably made an out of process change to Target's POS system and nobody noticed.
- [Gallows humor for the NSA privacy debate](https://www.cringely.com/2013/12/16/gallows-humor-nsa-privacy-debate/) - Violate the privacy of a U.S. citizen as an NSA employee without proper reason and authorization and if you are caught then you die.
- [You may not want that Windows Bay Trail tablet after all](https://www.cringely.com/2013/12/13/may-want-windows-bay-trail-tablet/) - While the first Bay Trail tablets have the important features of SD card, HDMI, USB, and GPS, most of these are hobbled in one way or another.
- [See you on the golf course, John, Cisco is in trouble](https://www.cringely.com/2013/12/04/see-golf-course-john-cisco-trouble/) - Cisco’s problem is their market is mature and being commoditized with all boats sinking. And this time there isn’t an obvious new idea to buy.
- [Why Intel wants to be everyone's chip maker](https://www.cringely.com/2013/11/25/intel-wants-everyones-chip-maker/) - I believe Intel is entering the foundry business mainly as an industrial intelligence operation.
- [Try editing your images in the cloud via Mainframe2](https://www.cringely.com/2013/11/14/try-photoshop-cloud-via-mainframe2/) - Embedded in this page is a fully functional copy of Adobe PhotoShop in the cloud using the Mainframe2 interface to Amazon Web Services' EC2 graphical cloud
- [Scarface: He's got Boris Yeltsin eyes](https://www.cringely.com/2013/11/11/scarface/) - Scarface Bob may have smashed his head against the house but he's still publishing an IBM eBook for Christmas.
- [Amazon's new graphical cloud helps make desktops obsolete](https://www.cringely.com/2013/11/06/amazons-new-graphical-cloud-helps-make-desktops-obsolete/) - With Amazon's graphical cloud I think the elements are coming together fast to make your present desktop computer your last one.
- [The Google File System makes NSA's hack blatantly illegal and they know it](https://www.cringely.com/2013/11/02/google-file-system-makes-nsas-hack-blatantly-illegal-know/) - When GCHQ taps Google's London data center, they give the NSA ALL Google data, not just Google’s UK data, thanks to the Google File System. This is illegal.
- [How Big Data is destroying the U.S. healthcare system](https://www.cringely.com/2013/10/26/big-data-destroying-u-s-healthcare-system/) - Big Data switched the health insurance business model from covering as many people as possible to covering as few as possible, leaving millions uninsured.
- [Privacy is dead and here's how](https://www.cringely.com/2013/10/21/privacy-dead-heres/) - If you think your Internet communications are private, they aren't. Privacy is dead.
- [Breaking Moore's Law](https://www.cringely.com/2013/10/15/breaking-moores-law/) - For 1990s Internet schemes to succeed the cost of server computing had to be made cheaper even than was made possible at the time by Moore’s Law.
- [Abe fiddles while Fukushima leaks](https://www.cringely.com/2013/10/07/abe-fiddles-fukushima-leaks/) - TEPCO and the Japanese government haven't managed the Fukushima accident, they've extended the Japanese patronage system to benefit from the disaster.
- [I have my doubts about Bitcoin](https://www.cringely.com/2013/09/30/doubts-bitcoin/) - Bitcoin is clever, interesting, brilliant even, but I find it too troubling to support.
- [How I Refresh my memory](https://www.cringely.com/2013/09/27/refresh-memory/) - Refresh scours dozens of data sources to create a dossier about the person you are meeting or the person you’d like to meet sitting at the end of the bar.
- [The Secret of iOS 7](https://www.cringely.com/2013/09/19/the-secret-of-ios-7/) - The iPhone 5S, iOS 7, and whatever follows make logical desktop replacements. They, and phones like them, will be the death of the PC.
- [What if Marissa Mayer went to jail?](https://www.cringely.com/2013/09/12/marissa-mayer-went-jail/) - Companies like Marissa Mayer's Yahoo could stand up to these NSA orders and most likely beat them if they chose to.
- [Apple burnishes while we wait for another breakthrough ](https://www.cringely.com/2013/09/11/apple-burnishes-wait-another-breakthrough/) - Two years since the death of Steve Jobs, Apple is still trying to get its bearings. Plenty is happening in Cupertino, but what will make it to market?
- [Why Microsoft really bought Nokia](https://www.cringely.com/2013/09/03/microsoft-really-bought-nokia/) - Why did Microsoft buy Nokia? The stated reason is to compete with Android and iOS, but that game is lost. This has more to do with finance than phones.
- [The next Japanese nuclear accident (it's inevitable) will be even worse](https://www.cringely.com/2012/05/24/the-next-japanese-nuclear-accident-its-inevitable-will-be-even-worse/) - Next Japanese nuclear accident will be even worse
- [I was, uh, wrong: Chromecast does what Google claims](https://www.cringely.com/2013/08/28/uh-wrong-chromecast-google-claims/) - Chromecast appears to be every bit as good as Google claims. That’s not to say it’s perfect, but pretty darned good.
- [Advice 5 cents: The role of mentoring in Silicon Valley](https://www.cringely.com/2013/08/26/advice-5-cents-role-mentoring-silicon-valley/) - Except in Russia I guess, the effects of mentoring are largely guided by questions of the student and that person's willingness to learn from the answers.
- [Microsoft, Ballmer, and the end of the PC era](https://www.cringely.com/2013/08/23/microsoft-ballmer-and-the-end-of-the-pc-era/) - The timing of Ballmer leaving Microsoft is all about the stock price and nothing else.
- [Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs somehow misses the whole point](https://www.cringely.com/2013/08/19/ashton-kutchers-steve-jobs-somehow-misses-the-whole-point/) - The failing of this film is something happened during Steve’s NeXT years that turned Jobs from a brat into a leader, but they don’t bother to cover that.
- [Eisenhower, Snowden and the military industrial complex](https://www.cringely.com/2013/08/14/eisenhower-snowden-and-the-military-industrial-complex/) - Washington is gearing-up for cyber warfare. And to the delight of the military industrial complex, this is one threat that is unlikely to go away... ever.
- [Fulfilling customer requirements is a weapon at IBM](https://www.cringely.com/2013/08/07/fulfilling-customer-requirements-is-a-weapon-at-ibm/) - Fulfilling customer requirements is a weapon at IBM
- [Is cyber insurance AAA for data or another back door?](https://www.cringely.com/2013/08/04/will-cyber-insurance-be-aaa-for-our-data-or-yet-another-back-door/) - This cyber insurance proposal would take something we think of as a law enforcement or even national security function and make it into a financial service.
- [The origins of DefCon](https://www.cringely.com/2013/07/30/the-origins-of-defcon/) - Computer criminals and vigilantes today topple companies and governments, but 20 years ago at DefCon 1 it was just kids, or seemed to be.
- [The New IBM -- vampires in our midst](https://www.cringely.com/2013/07/25/the-new-ibm-vampires-in-our-midst/) - IBM is sacrificing its hardware business for software and software services but isn’t asking for buy-in from affected employees. This is bad management.
- [Google ChromeCast -- Fabulous product or fabulous demo?](https://www.cringely.com/2013/07/25/google-chromecast-fabulous-product-or-fabulous-demo/) - ChromeCast is amazing for its price point, but looking closer the product simply isn’t as cool as Google presented it to be.
- [So that's how H-1B visa fraud is done!](https://www.cringely.com/2013/07/18/so-thats-how-h-1b-visa-fraud-is-done/) - H-1B fraud means employers posting jobs that don't exist, seeking candidates they don't want, paying for fake ads to show a non-existent IT labor shortage.
- [Georgia Tech's $7000 polyester masters in computer science](https://www.cringely.com/2013/07/10/georgia-techs-7000-polyester-masters-in-computer-science/) - In case you missed it, the Rambling Wrecks of Georgia Tech will next year begin offering an online masters degree in computer science for a total price of just under $7000 -- about 80 percent less than the current in-state tuition for an equivalent campus-based program. The degree program, offered in cooperation with AT&T and
- [Edward Snowden is trying to be Daniel Ellsberg on Twitter](https://www.cringely.com/2013/07/09/edward-snowden-is-trying-to-be-daniel-ellsberg-on-twitter/) - Daniel Ellsberg was classier in his day than Edward Snowden is today. That's the problem with the intelligence fiasco Snowden describes: too many cowboys.
- [Doug Engelbart, visionary](https://www.cringely.com/2013/07/03/doug-engelbart-visionary/) - Doug Engelbart died last night at age 88.
- [The Decline & Fall of IBM](https://www.cringely.com/2013/04/22/the-decline-fall-of-ibm/) - That’s a pretty dramatic headline, don’t you think? It’s also the title of an eBook about IBM I will put on sale here about six weeks from now. IBM is in trouble, you see, serious trouble caused primarily by executive corrosion from within. Not only did Big Blue miss its earnings target last quarter for
- [IBM to customers: Your hand is staining my window](https://www.cringely.com/2013/06/20/ibm-to-customers-your-hand-is-staining-my-window/) - Making its numbers is IBM's only priority. The IBM that used to be the leader in social reform and good corporate citizenship no longer exists.
- [The second coming of Java](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/12/the-second-coming-of-java/) - There’s a continuous revolution taking place in web development as platforms and tools evolved first to handle dynamic pages and now cloud services. But sometimes what goes around comes around so I’m predicting a resurgence of Java and Java-like languages as rotating storage goes into decline. Here’s why. In the beginning of the web we
- [The Final Frontier -- Part 2](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/07/the-final-frontier-part-2/) - With more than 200 reader comments submitted already it is clear that my column from earlier this week about America’s next frontier is a hot topic. I asked readers to tell me what they thought would be (should be) our next area of national expansion and the responses ranged from single words to essays and
- [Is Yahoo Mail Broken?](https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/15/is-yahoo-mail-broken/) - This just in from an old friend who only gets pissed-off when it is justified. He says Yahoo Mail has been going downhill for awhile and has lately become unusable. Is this an isolated incident or does it affect all 200+ million Yahoo Mail customers? What's your experience? Here is his: This is unacceptable. We
- [The Final Frontier](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/03/the-final-frontier/) - When I was in school we had the occasional class discussion in history or social studies about the role of the frontier in U.S. economic development. Back then (this was the 1960s) if the teacher was sharp this would sometimes segue into a discussion about the implications for America of being without an obvious frontier
- [TV after YouTube](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/19/tv-after-youtube/) - YouTube made two fascinating announcements recently: 1) viewers are now downloading an average of two billion videos per day on the service, and; 2) YouTube is almost showing a profit for Google, its owner. Think about the glorious inefficiency embodied in that latter statement: two billion downloads per day just to break even. And this
- [Where's Bob? Changing WordPress hosts.](https://www.cringely.com/2013/06/06/wheres-bob-changing-wordpress-hosts/) - In case you've been wondering what's up with this blog, we're in the midst of moving it from one host to another. Truth be told, Jennie is in the midst of moving it. This will be my last post from Media Temple. My next post (a real one -- it's already written) should come later tonight
- [Which domain registrar is best?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/07/which-domain-registrar-is-best/) - I have domains from Network Solutions, GoDaddy, and Register.com, but there are many other registrars -- some of which must be better than these. Network Solutions is too expensive and difficult to work with, GoDaddy is annoying and greedy, while Register.com may be great but I don’t have a good comparison. I am thinking of
- [The Steve Jobs Interview](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/21/the-steve-jobs-interview/) - If you watch the 60 Minutes segment this Sunday with Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs' biographer, on the eve of his book being published, you are likely to see up to three clips from my show Triumph of the Nerds. My 1995 interview with Steve for that series is famous for his trashing of Microsoft and has
- [iPad, Therefore I Am](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/28/ipad-therefore-i-am/) - It’s the morning after and time for an unjaundiced look at Apple’s just-announced iPad tablet computer thingee. My last post was a series of pre-announcement Tweets from a guy at or near EnGadget and I took some grief from readers for even posting it, but in retrospect I am glad I did because it gives
- [Masters Tournament](https://www.cringely.com/2010/04/09/masters-tournament/) - Look at the photo with this column. It’s of an audio microcassette I found in my desk drawer yesterday while madly looking for something else in my overgrown office. As you may be able to read on the picture, it is an interview with Bill Gates from June, 1998. That’s the interview I did for
- [iCloud's real purpose: kill Windows](https://www.cringely.com/2011/06/07/iclouds-real-purpose-is-to-kill-windows/) - Apple’s announcements yesterday about OS X 10.7 pricing (cheap), upgrading (easy), iOS 5, and iCloud storage, syncing, and media service can all be viewed as increasing ease of use, but from the perspective of Apple CEO Steve Jobs they perform an even more vital function -- killing Microsoft. Here is the money line from Jobs
- [Snowden and the NSA reflect a millennial climate change](https://www.cringely.com/2013/06/18/snowden-and-the-nsa-reflect-a-millennial-climate-change/) - Snowdon (not Snowden) is the name of the tallest mountain in Wales and while by Swiss or Colorado standards it may not seem like much the weather on Snowdon is unpredictable and has taken many lives. I climbed Snowdon as a schoolboy with my class and that day on the mountain another school group was
- [If it's Ethernet versus Godzilla, then Godzilla is DOCSIS](https://www.cringely.com/2013/06/17/if-its-ethernet-versus-godzilla-then-godzilla-is-docsis/) - This claim of all-Ethernet, all the time, is a big deal but it doesn’t mean Ethernet is now the only game in town.
- [Father's Day](https://www.cringely.com/2013/06/17/fathers-day/) - Today was Father's Day in the USA and that gray-haired guy in the picture was my father.
- [Better late than never](https://www.cringely.com/2013/06/17/better-late-than-never-2/) - The process of switching I, Cringely from Media Temple to WP Engine, which was supposed to take a few hours, ended up taking more than a week!
- [What Intel and AMD clean rooms could teach hospitals](https://www.cringely.com/2013/05/27/what-intel-and-amd-clean-rooms-could-teach-hospitals/) - Why don’t we learn from Intel and AMD clean rooms and make our hospitals safer for patients?
- [The nose knows](https://www.cringely.com/2013/05/24/the-nose-knows/) - When buying something on the Internet, how can you make sure it doesn't smell terrible? You can't. We need a digital nose.
- [Where have you gone, Engine Charlie?](https://www.cringely.com/2013/05/20/where-have-you-gone-engine-charlie/) - “The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making lots of progress,” said Charles Wilson. We need you Engine Charlie.
- [Cole Cringely on his ninth birthday](https://www.cringely.com/2013/05/13/cole-cringely-on-his-ninth-birthday/) - Cole Cringely is an ambitious boy who likes to code Java.
- [The Exit Trap](https://www.cringely.com/2013/05/07/the-exit-trap/) - I wish more companies had no exit strategies at all
- [Amazon.com isn't killing Best Buy: blame Best Buy IT](https://www.cringely.com/2013/05/02/amazon-com-isnt-killing-best-buy-blame-best-buy-it/) - It’s not that Amazon and Walmart are stealing the business from Best Buy. They are earning the business. Best Buy is probably doomed.
- [Things are looking up for Google Glass](https://www.cringely.com/2013/04/30/things-are-looking-up-for-google-glass/) - Google Glass will create a whole new class of apps that I'd call sneaky -- quietly providing contextual information just at the moment I most need it.
- [How American Airlines lost its computer](https://www.cringely.com/2013/04/29/how-american-airlines-lost-its-computer/) - American Airlines' reservations system went offline canceling 700 flights. This system is too integrated and the company too dependent on one technology.
- [Two H-1B's walk into a bar: more on the visa scam](https://www.cringely.com/2013/04/25/two-h-1bs-walk-into-a-bar-more-on-the-visa-scam/) - if granting an H-1B visa results in the loss of a job for a U.S. citizen or green card holder, then that H-1B shouldn’t be granted.
- [The terahertz revolution and local security](https://www.cringely.com/2013/04/17/the-terahertz-revolution-and-local-security/) - It is right now possible to build perfectly practical terahertz emitters as I’ve described for less than a dollar.
- [Why elite marathoners don't (yet) wear wristwatch mobile phones](https://www.cringely.com/2013/04/16/why-elite-marathoners-dont-yet-wear-wristwatch-mobile-phones/) - Thirty years and 50 pounds of blubber ago, between various teaching jobs and being fired from computer companies, I wrote for a New York-based magazine called The Runner, which was long ago absorbed by Runners World. I took the gig to force myself to get in shape and it worked, which is why one year
- [Stop sending me pennies -- more bad news for PayPal](https://www.cringely.com/2013/04/13/stop-sending-me-pennies-more-bad-news-for-paypal/) - PayPal hasn't been truthful about accounts that have been hacked.
- [We're PayPal immortals whether we like it or not](https://www.cringely.com/2013/04/08/were-paypal-immortals-whether-we-like-it-or-not/) - Have you ever canceled a PayPal account? I tried to cancel mine today and the company wouldn’t let me.
- [Cringely comes back from the dead... again!](https://www.cringely.com/2013/04/07/cringely-comes-back-from-the-dead-again/) - Cringely isn't retiring after all. Oh, and he's writing a new book.
- [Accidental Empires, Chapter 17 -- Do the Wave](https://www.cringely.com/2013/04/03/accidental-empires-chapter-17-do-the-wave/) - Accidental Empires -- The future of computing as it looked to Cringely, circa 1996.
- [Accidental Empires, Chapter 16 -- But Wait, There's More!](https://www.cringely.com/2013/03/31/accidental-empires-chapter-16-but-wait-theres-more/) - Accidental Empires -- A 1996 update to some stories from the 1991 book.
- [Accidental Empires, Chapter 15 -- Future Computing](https://www.cringely.com/2013/03/28/accidental-empires-chapter-15-future-computing/) - There is so much wrong and yet a lot that's right in this chapter, which was the last one in the original hardcover edition. I don't know whether to be embarrassed by it or proud. How does computing today compare with my predictions from 1992? ACCIDENTAL EMPIRES CHAPTER FIFTEEN FUTURE COMPUTING Remember Pogo? Pogo was
- [Accidental Empires, Chapter 14 -- Counter-Reformation](https://www.cringely.com/2013/03/24/accidental-empires-chapter-14-counter-reformation/) - Accidental Empires -- The rise and fall of IBM's personal computing business.
- [Accidental Empires, Chapter 13 -- Economics of Scale](https://www.cringely.com/2013/03/21/accidental-empires-chapter-13-economics-of-scale/) - Aldus, Ashton-Tate, Lotus, Microsoft and the challenge of turning a successful software startup into a successful startup company.
- [Accidental Empires, Chapter 12 -- On the Beach](https://www.cringely.com/2013/03/18/accidental-empires-chapter-12-on-the-beach/) - Accidental Empires -- technology startup companies, venture capital, and shareware
- [Accidental Empires, Chapter 11 -- Font Wars](https://www.cringely.com/2013/03/14/accidental-empires-chapter-11-font-wars/) - Accidental Empires -- the rise of digital typography, Adobe Systems, PostScript, and the font battle between Apple and Microsoft.
- [Accidental Empires, Chapter 10 -- The Prophet](https://www.cringely.com/2013/03/10/accidental-empires-chapter-10-the-prophet/) - Accidental Empires -- The early business life of Steve Jobs -- the scariest man in Silicon Vlley
- [Accidental Empires, Chapter 9 -- Clones](https://www.cringely.com/2013/03/07/accidental-empires-chapter-9-clones/) - Accidental Empires -- Compaq clones the IBM PC and Big Blue eventually loses control of its own standard
- [Accidental Empires, Chapter 8 -- Software Envy](https://www.cringely.com/2013/03/04/accidental-empires-chapter-8-software-envy/) - Accidental Empires -- Early history of Lotus Development, 1-2-3, and the emergence of the PC ecosystem.
- [The Startup Channel](https://www.cringely.com/2013/02/28/the-startup-channel/) - The Startup Channel is Bob Cringely's new startup company
- [Accidental Empires, Chapter 7 -- All IBM Stories are True](https://www.cringely.com/2013/02/28/accidental-empires-chapter-7-all-ibm-stories-are-true/) - Accidental Empires -- a short history of IBM culture and how the company got in the PC business
- [Accidental Empires, Chapter 6 -- Chairman Bill Leads the Happy Workers in Song](https://www.cringely.com/2013/02/25/accidental-empires-chapter-6-chairman-bill-leads-the-happy-workers-in-song/) - Accidental Empires -- The early days of Microsoft and how Bill Gates found a way to lead tens of thousands of programmers.
- [Accidental Empires, Chapter 5 -- Role Models](https://www.cringely.com/2013/02/20/accidental-empires-chapter-5-role-models/) - Accidental Empires -- The role of Xerox PARC
- [Accidental Empires, Chapter 4 -- Amateur Hour](https://www.cringely.com/2013/02/18/accidental-empires-chapter-4-amateur-hour/) - Accidental Empires -- the origins of MITS, Apple, Digital Research, and VisiCalc
- [Accidental Empires, Chapter 3 -- Why They Don't Call It Computer Valley](https://www.cringely.com/2013/02/14/accidental-empires-chapter-3-why-they-dont-call-it-computer-valley/) - Accidental Empires -- How the personal computer industry kinda-sorta grew out of the semiconductor industry.
- [Accidental Empires, Part 8 (Chapter 2) -- The Tyranny of the Normal Distribution](https://www.cringely.com/2013/02/10/accidental-empires-part-8-chapter-2-the-tyranny-of-the-normal-distribution/) - Creating accidental empires requires not a lot of smart people but a few VERY smart people. As a nation we should learn to find and cultivate such people.
- [Accidental Empires, Part 7 (Chapter 1d) -- Our Nerds](https://www.cringely.com/2013/02/07/accidental-empires-part-7-chapter-1d-our-nerds/) - The founders of the microcomputer industry were groups of boys who banded together to give themselves power. For the most part, they came from middle-class and upper-middle-class homes in upscale West Coast communities. They weren't rebels; they resented their parents and society very little. Their only alienation was the usual hassle of the adolescent—a feeling
- [Accidental Empires, Part 6 (Chapter 1c) -- The Airport Kid](https://www.cringely.com/2013/02/07/accidental-empires-part-6-chapter-1c-the-airport-kid/) - ACCIDENTAL EMPIRES -- When I came to California in 1977, I met teenagers mad for digital electronics diving through dumpsters, seeking components in the trash.
- [Accidental Empires, Part 5 (Chapter 1b) ](https://www.cringely.com/2013/02/06/accidental-empires-chapter-1b/) - Accidental Empires -- The pioneers of personal computing had little previous work experience -- just smart kids with an angle they exploited to the max.
- [Accidental Empires, Part 4 (Chapter 1a) -- The Demo God](https://www.cringely.com/2013/02/06/accidental-empires-chapter-1a-the-demo-god/) - Accidental Empires chapter 1a -- the Demo God.
- [Accidental Empires, Part 3 -- Preface to the original 1991 edition](https://www.cringely.com/2013/02/05/accidental-empires-part-3-preface-to-the-1991-edition/) - Accidental Empires -- Preface to the 1991 edition
- [Accidental Empires, Part 2 -- Preface to the 1996 edition](https://www.cringely.com/2013/02/05/accidental-empires-part-2-preface-to-the-1996-edition/) - Preface to the revised 1996 edition of Accidental Empires.
- [Accidental Empires, Part 1 -- Looking back at a golden era](https://www.cringely.com/2013/02/04/accidental-empires-part-1/) - Accidental Empires is very important to me and I don’t serialize it here lightly. My point is to update it and I trust that my readers of many years will help me do that.
- [Accidental Empires Reboot](https://www.cringely.com/2013/01/31/accidental-empires-reboot/) - Cringely's Accidental Empires Reboot begins 2/4/13
- [I, Cringely version 3.01](https://www.cringely.com/2013/01/28/i-cringely-version-3-01/) - Cringely 3.01 will have you see more of me and less. I’ll work harder than ever, but why not? There’ s plenty to be done and I don't feel a day over 59.
- [DMCA Smart phone Catch-22: Major de Coverley for Librarian of Congress!](https://www.cringely.com/2013/01/27/smart-phone-catch-22-major-de-coverley-for-librarian-of-congress/) - It is now illegal for U. S. residents to jailbreak their smart phones under the DMCA. Offenders may be fined up to $500,000 and imprisoned for five years.
- [Not all smart people work at the X-Prize Foundation](https://www.cringely.com/2013/01/23/not-all-smart-people-work-x-prize-foundation/) - My response to message from Qualcomm Tricorder X-Prize Foundation director Mark Winters, who said my objections to his contest design were without merit.
- [X-Prize Foundation defends their poorly-conceived Qualcomm Tricorder contest](https://www.cringely.com/2013/01/23/x-prize-foundation-defends-their-poorly-conceived-qualcomm-tricorder-contest/) - The X-Prize Foundation seems to feel the Qualcomm Tricorder X-Prize contest is fine as-is and my objections are without merit.
- [Qualcomm Tricorder X-Prize is another poorly conceived contest ](https://www.cringely.com/2013/01/22/qualcomm-tricorder-x-prize-is-another-poorly-conceived-contest/) - We can claim your Qualcomm Tricorder X-prize in 30 days, max. Why shouldn’t we be allowed to? How many lives won’t be saved because of these silly rules?
- [Apple's challenges require leaving Steve Jobs behind](https://www.cringely.com/2013/01/17/apples-challenges-require-leaving-steve-jobs-behind/) - The best days could well be ahead for Apple. But that can only happen if the company is ready to well and fully leave Steve behind.
- [Yes, Phil, there is an iPhone Mini](https://www.cringely.com/2013/01/14/yes-phil-there-is-an-iphone-mini/) - The purpose of such an iPhone Mini is to hit the Chinese phone market with a big bang and to kill feature phones altogether, growing the iPhone market.
- [Advance to the rear: Is military Win8 computing the future of computing?](https://www.cringely.com/2013/01/11/advance-to-the-rear-is-military-computing-the-future-of-business-computing/) - Traditional Win8 PCs play a minor role in this emerging view of military computing with the most common device being a tablet or a smart phone.
- [Silicon Valley conquers Hollywood, part 3 -- think small, not big](https://www.cringely.com/2013/01/04/silicon-valley-conquers-hollywood-part-3-think-small/) - If Seattle and Silicon Valley make a frontal attack on Hollywood they’ll fail. But if they undermine the system by bribing the peasants, they’ll succeed.
- [Silicon Valley conquers Hollywood, part 2 -- There's no business like show business](https://www.cringely.com/2013/01/03/silicon-valley-conquers-hollywood-part-2-theres-no-business-like-show-business/) - When technology companies try to do business with the entertainment industry they nearly always lose because there's no business like show business.
- [In the land of the blind Krikorian could become king](https://www.cringely.com/2013/01/01/in-the-land-of-the-blind-krikorian-could-become-king/) - Krikorian, his career arc and our fascination with it shows how aimless and confused are some of these big technology companies.
- [Silicon Valley conquers Hollywood 2013 -- Setting the scene ](https://www.cringely.com/2012/12/29/silicon-valley-conquers-hollywood-part-1-setting-the-scene/) - I think an important trend in 2013 will be the battle for Hollywood and home entertainment.
- [Reagan and Newtown](https://www.cringely.com/2012/12/24/reagan-and-newtown/) - After Newtown we’ll have an argument about banning guns or putting police in schools yet little will be done to identify and treat hostiles in our society.
- [Instagram's Exit Plan](https://www.cringely.com/2012/12/18/instagrams-exit-plan/) - Instagram is proposing a change to its terms of service to allow the company to use your pictures and mine in any fashion they choose.
- [Dr. Al explains the so-called "so-called fiscal cliff"](https://www.cringely.com/2012/12/16/dr-al-explains-the-so-called-so-called-fiscal-cliff/) - An awkward political and economic compromise that both sides claim to hate is the best possible outcome for the fiscal cliff
- [Feedburner is undead for a moment, so please resubscribe to I, Cringely](https://www.cringely.com/2012/12/14/feedburner-undead-please-resubscribe/) - FeedBurner came back to life, maybe for just a moment, so everyone who wants to keep reading this column please head over to Feedblitz and resubscribe.
- [Who's your daddy? Intel swoons for Apple](https://www.cringely.com/2012/12/07/whos-your-daddy-intel-swoons-for-apple/) - Apple may let Intel build its A5 and A6 chips, but don't expect the iPad to really go x86.
- [More stupid IBM tricks put customer data at risk](https://www.cringely.com/2012/12/05/more-stupid-ibm-tricks-put-customer-data-at-risk/) - IBM has an audit crisis and management is surprised and upset, yet it’s their own damned fault.
- [Amoeba Music's Vinyl Vaults is no Napster despite what musicians say](https://www.cringely.com/2012/12/04/amoeba-musics-vinyl-vaults-is-no-napster-despite-what-musicians-say/) - Amoeba Music is ripping tracks from old records as they come into the stores then throwing them up on a webpage where they can be downloaded.
- [Hear that? It's HP founders Bill and Dave spinning in their graves](https://www.cringely.com/2012/11/28/hear-that-sound-its-hp-founders-bill-and-dave-spinning-in-their-graves/) - HP overpaid for Autonomy. Meg Whitman could have walked away but didn’t. So Meg had to have been deliberately duped goes the new reality, hence the lawsuit.
- [Apple is greedy says Fallon Cringely](https://www.cringely.com/2012/11/26/apple-is-greedy-says-fallon-cringely/) - Fallon wants more apps for his Apple iPod Touch, but Fallon has been burned by paid apps that weren’t good, probably because the reviewers weren’t six.
- [While the Intel board was firing Paul Otellini they should have fired themselves, too ](https://www.cringely.com/2012/11/20/while-the-intel-board-was-firing-paul-otellini-they-should-have-fired-themselves-too/) - Intel company vision has failed from top to bottom. It’s time for new leadership including a new board.
- [JOBS Act crowdfunding is unlikely to help most startups](https://www.cringely.com/2012/11/17/jobs-act-crowdfunding-is-unlikely-to-help-most-startups/) - The SEC is taking a conservative approach to crowd funding regulation that will effectively disenfranchise most startups looking for capital
- [Geek Idol: A Competition to Promote Competitiveness](https://www.cringely.com/2012/11/12/geek-idol-a-competition-to-promote-competitiveness/) - America’s inherent technical advantage is declining as the rest of the world catches up. We need a competition to more efficiently nurture American genius.
- [Bug or feature? eBay drops wildcard search](https://www.cringely.com/2012/11/09/bug-or-feature-ebay-drops-wildcard-search/) - eBay has dropped wildcard searches for no sensible reason
- [The nanotech replicators are coming!](https://www.cringely.com/2012/11/06/the-nanotech-replicators-are-coming/) - We will have nanotech replicators within 20 years.
- [Ad networks are killing the Internet. My answer is Cringely 3.0](https://www.cringely.com/2012/11/02/ad-networks-are-killing-the-internet-my-answer-is-cringely-3-0/) - At the same time Internet publications are undercutting paper ones, Internet ad networks are killing the web sites they serve, like I, Cringely. Ironic, eh?
- [Think cloud computing saved you from Sandy? Think again.](https://www.cringely.com/2012/11/01/think-cloud-computing-saved-you-from-sandy-think-again/) - Cloud computing is for some providers more of a marketing term than anything else.
- [Steve Ballmer's Dilemma](https://www.cringely.com/2012/10/28/steve-ballmers-dilemma/) - Steve Ballmer and Microsoft need to clean up their act, quietly trim expenses and stash away cash toward the post-Windows, post-Office world of 2018
- [On Win8 launch day a look back at Steve Ballmer, circa 2001](https://www.cringely.com/2012/10/25/on-win8-launch-day-a-look-back-at-steve-ballmer-circa-2001/) - Steve Ballmer today is still willing to bet big and expects to win. The big question for 2013 is whether Ballmer can pull off something similar again?
- [What Americans don't know about H-1B visas could hurt us all](https://www.cringely.com/2012/10/23/what-americans-dont-know-about-h-1b-visas-could-hurt-us-all/) - Our ignorance about the H-1B visa program is being used to unfairly limit wages and steal -- yes, steal -- jobs from U.S. citizens
- [Don't mess with IBM: one downside of suing a tech company that thinks like a law firm ](https://www.cringely.com/2012/10/22/dont-mess-with-ibm-one-downside-of-suing-a-tech-company-that-thinks-like-a-law-firm/) - How companies like IBM intimidate employees and discourage them from speaking up.
- [Want a cheap room in Phoenix? Apple cancels competing event](https://www.cringely.com/2012/10/19/want-a-cheap-room-in-phoenix-apple-cancels-competing-event/) - The iPad Mini is definitely coming, which we all knew, and it is likely to be for sale immediately in Apple stores.
- [So sue us! Why big companies like IBM aren't afraid of H-1B lawsuits](https://www.cringely.com/2012/10/15/so-sue-us-why-big-companies-like-ibm-arent-afraid-of-h-1b-lawsuits/) - We've reached a point where, as this Miano post describes, IBM appears to not even pretend anymore to be in compliance with H-1B immigration law.
- [Off with their heads! Why financial regulation stopped working](https://www.cringely.com/2012/10/09/off-with-their-heads-why-financial-regulation-stopped-working/) - The more powerful an organization the more it will act in its own self interest even if that interest is in violation of financial regulations or laws.
- [Steve Jobs came within a song of going to the Moon](https://www.cringely.com/2012/10/03/steve-jobs-came-within-a-song-of-going-to-the-moon/) - Steve Jobs' questions were: 1) is it doable?, and; 2) is it a significant enough adventure to be worth attaching the Apple name? ROI didn’t matter to Steve.
- [Clothing may be optional but bufferbloat isn't](https://www.cringely.com/2012/10/01/clothing-may-be-optional-but-bufferbloat-isnt/) - Current state of the art in defeating bufferbloat is an Open Source project called the CoDel AQM algorithm originally by Kathie Nichols and Van Jacobson
- [LagBuster makes online games play faster -- even Call of Duty](https://www.cringely.com/2012/09/26/lagbuster-makes-online-games-play-faster-even-call-of-duty/) - If you are a serious gamer you need LagBuster.
- [Is the U.S. Startup Economy Failing?](https://www.cringely.com/2012/09/20/is-the-u-s-startup-economy-failing/) - No the startup economy isn’t losing its oomph but yes, it’s time to worry.
- [Muhammad v. YouTube ](https://www.cringely.com/2012/09/15/muhammad-v-youtube/) - President Obama has asked YouTube to take down the anti-Muslim video but legally YouTube needs him to ORDER them to do so. That's what will happen next.
- [Thunderbolt, on an iPhone 5?](https://www.cringely.com/2012/09/12/thunderbolt-on-an-iphone-5/) - I suspect the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4 pricing will blow a hole in the Android market.
- [LinkedIn SNAFU](https://www.cringely.com/2012/09/12/linkedin-snafu/) - If you received a connection request from me through LinkedIn, I probably didn't send it. LinkedIn sent it all by itself.
- [Kindle Fire HD hurts Microsoft more than Apple](https://www.cringely.com/2012/09/07/kindle-fire-hd-hurts-microsoft-more-than-apple/) - Apple has to innovate itself out of a pricing corner, but the Kindle Fire HD may make it hard for Microsoft tablets to even survive.
- [An IPO minor league in Hong Kong for startups](https://www.cringely.com/2012/09/06/hong-kong/) - As many readers have pointed out, the IPO drought of the last decade has many causes beyond just decimalization of stock trading. Sarbanes-Oxley has made it significantly more expensive to be a public company than it used to be. Consolidation in the banking and brokerage industries have resulted in fewer specialists and hardly any true
- [Ticked off: How stock market decimalization killed IPOs and ruined our economy](https://www.cringely.com/2012/09/05/ticked-off-how-stock-market-decimalization-killed-ipos-and-ruined-our-economy/) - Stock market decimalization pulled liquidity from small cap companies. Market makers consolidated, also bad for small caps and their IPOs.
- [Why hardly anyone in the U.S. economy feels prosperous anymore](https://www.cringely.com/2012/09/02/why-hardly-anyone-in-the-u-s-economy-feels-prosperous-anymore/) - We’ve lost the entrepreneurial zeal of the 1990s. There’s something different about starting a business now compared to then. We just aren’t getting as much wealth-building for our bucks as we used to in the U.S. economy.
- [Windows 8, Users 0?](https://www.cringely.com/2012/08/30/windows-8-users-0/) - The Bob home page. I am not making this up. Windows 8 is just over a month from hitting the market and my sense is that this initial release, at least, will be at best controversial and at worst a failure. Microsoft is simply trying to change too many things at once. What we have
- [What's a WeJIT?](https://www.cringely.com/2012/08/24/whats-a-wejit/) - WeJITS are little web pages inserted in blogs, e-mail messages, e-books, tweets, creating conversations from one-way communications.
- [JavaScript video technology only 17 years in the making](https://www.cringely.com/2012/08/22/javascript-video-17-years-in-the-making/) - JavaScript video works on all recent browsers and requires no streaming servers or players. There is nothing to download or maintain.
- [Electric flight of fancy](https://www.cringely.com/2012/08/17/electric-flight-of-fancy/) - The Cringely family is building an airplane for electric flight
- [Click fraud the old fashioned way](https://www.cringely.com/2012/08/14/click-fraud-the-old-fashion-way/) - A friend in private equity almost bought a prominent web media site for low nine figures but the company was fudging its ad numbers.
- [Cloudy with a chance of data loss](https://www.cringely.com/2012/08/11/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-data-loss/) - Many cloud storage companies do not back up your data. If something happens to their data center, data loss will happen.
- [A belt and suspenders for your cloud storage](https://www.cringely.com/2012/08/08/a-belt-and-suspenders-for-your-cloud-storage/) - At Chez Cringely everything is backed-up locally two ways, backed-up to cloud storage, and backed up again to a drive in another city.
- [Facebook, Cringely and the devolution of the web](https://www.cringely.com/2012/08/07/facebook-cringely-and-the-devolution-of-the-web/) - Every month I, Cringely gets more readers and less income. The writing is on the wall for dinosaurs like me -- evolve or die.
- [Steve Jobs -- The Lost Interview available for preorder on Amazon.com](https://www.cringely.com/2012/08/01/steve-jobs-the-lost-interview-available-for-preorder-on-amazon-com/) - Steve Jobs -- The Lost Interview is available now for preorder on Amazon.com.
- [Apple and Samsung: brands at war](https://www.cringely.com/2012/07/31/apple-and-samsung-brands-at-war/) - Apple's weapons are continuous innovation, brand building, controlling supply chain, distribution and content, and occasionally lawsuits.
- [YouTube might be the best place to watch the Olympics (if it doesn't break)](https://www.cringely.com/2012/07/28/youtube-might-be-the-best-place-to-watch-the-olympics-if-it-doesnt-break/) - YouTube has really thrown itself into the Olympics, raising its live video game in the process.
- [The DARPA Way](https://www.cringely.com/2012/07/26/the-darpa-way/) - DARPA is proud of the Internet but has forgotten it was invented to save money. With ALASA, DARPA wants dilithium crystals, not reality.
- [Are Indian high schoolers manning your IBM help desk?](https://www.cringely.com/2012/07/23/are-indian-high-schoolers-manning-your-ibm-help-desk/) - Fewer than 50 percent of IBM staffers at Global Delivery Centers in India are college graduates.
- [How Marissa Mayer can still save Yahoo](https://www.cringely.com/2012/07/18/how-marissa-mayer-can-still-save-yahoo/) - Mayer will acquire and integrate an app suite for Yahoo Mail's 310 million users adding fresh corporate DNA in the process.
- [New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is no Sorkin hero](https://www.cringely.com/2012/07/16/new-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-is-no-sorkin-hero/) - New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer looks great on paper but her Google reputation says she was mean, ineffective and eventually marginalized.
- [What if Steve Jobs -- The Lost Interview isn't available in my country?](https://www.cringely.com/2012/07/12/what-if-steve-jobs-the-lost-interview-isnt-available-in-my-country/) - How to stream Steve Jobs -- The Lost Interview in countries where the film does not yet have distribution
- [Put LIBOR on Yahoo Groups](https://www.cringely.com/2012/07/10/put-libor-on-yahoo-groups/) - Using a Yahoo Group as the exclusive channel to set LIBOR rates would enforce transparency by preserving a public record of who said what.
- [IT class warfare -- It's not just IBM](https://www.cringely.com/2012/07/06/it-class-warfare-its-just-ibm/) - IBM has chosen a poor path when it comes to IT labor issues while labor longs for a fantasy of their own -- the good old days.
- [Steve Jobs -- The Lost Interview is on iTunes, but don't tell anyone](https://www.cringely.com/2012/07/02/steve-jobs-the-lost-interview-itunes-dont-tell-anyone-okay/) - Steve Jobs -- The Lost Interview is now available on iTunes as a $3.99 rental, but Apple isn't promoting the film fearing controversy
- [Life after the personal computer](https://www.cringely.com/2012/06/30/life-personal-computer/) - The smart phone is rapidly replacing the personal computer in our culture
- [Why YouTube isn't the future of TV](https://www.cringely.com/2012/06/28/why-youtube-isnt-future-tv/) - Once viewed as being replaced by YouTube, TV networks and audiences are concluding the Internet won't substitute for the boob tube.
- [The tablet computer rumble](https://www.cringely.com/2012/06/24/the-tablet-computer-rumble/) - Microsoft and Google see the tablet computer as a Steve Jobs blind spot. They are building tablets because OEM’s won't do tablets correctly.
- [I Hate Network Solutions!](https://www.cringely.com/2012/06/24/i-hate-network-solutions/) - Network Solutions unnecessarily crashed this blog for four hours with a DNS snafu
- [Surface tablet intro no Moses event for Microsoft](https://www.cringely.com/2012/06/20/surface-tablet-intro-no-moses-event-for-microsoft/) - Microsoft Surface tablet is vying for second place and the comparison that really counts is with next week’s Google tablet, not the iPad.
- [An IT labor economics lesson from Memphis for IBM](https://www.cringely.com/2012/06/14/an-it-labor-economics-lesson-from-memphis-for-ibm/) - There is no IT labor shortage in the USA that requires more H1B visas, just a shortage of imagination and integrity.
- [The crowdfunding bubble of 2013 part 3 -- how to make it successful](https://www.cringely.com/2012/06/14/the-crowdfunding-bubble-of-2013-part-3-how-to-make-it-successful/) - Financially uninterested third parties can keep crowdfunding corruption from happening, while lowering costs for all parties.
- [Death of the Mac Pro](https://www.cringely.com/2012/06/12/death-of-the-mac-pro/) - Apple's Mac Pro was yesterday both upgraded and killed at the same time.
- [The crowdfunding bubble of 2013 part 2 -- crooks and con men](https://www.cringely.com/2012/06/07/the-crowdfunding-bubble-of-2013-part-2-crooks-and-con-men/) - Crowdfunding will soon allow small investors to buy shares in startups and other small companies, but there's peril from scammers.
- [IPv6 rollout is a yawner (that's good!)](https://www.cringely.com/2012/06/07/ipv6-rollout-is-a-yawner-thats-good/) - Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Yahoo as well as many top Internet Service Providers turned on their IPv6 support and nothing bad happened.
- [The crowdfunding bubble of 2013](https://www.cringely.com/2012/06/05/the-crowdfunding-bubble-of-2013/) - Come January 1, 2013, we're told, crowdfunding will allow anyone to be a venture capitalist, but these new VCs won't know what they are doing
- [The dumbing down of Windows 8](https://www.cringely.com/2012/05/30/the-dumbing-down-of-windows-8/) - Microsoft will unify its code base for Windows 8 making it run on all client platforms from smart phones to desktops
- [Google+ versus Facebook: It's the apps, stupid!](https://www.cringely.com/2012/05/21/google-versus-facebook-its-the-apps-stupid/) - Google+ versus Facebook: It's the apps, stupid!
- [Why Facebook isn't embarrassed by its IPO](https://www.cringely.com/2012/05/19/why-facebook-isnt-embarrassed-by-its-ipo/) - Why Facebook isn't embarrassed by its IPO
- [Facebook IPO defies Cringely (would you like that in BOLD?)](https://www.cringely.com/2012/05/18/facebook-ipo-defies-cringely-would-you-like-that-in-bold/) - Proving I am an idiot, Facebook went public this morning without a hitch.
- [What's a Movie Cloud? That's up to you](https://www.cringely.com/2012/05/09/whats-a-movie-cloud-thats-up-to-you/) - Movie Cloud is supposed to be the disintermediation of movies, bringing all factions together so that 50,000 feature films per year may bloom... maybe.
- [Beginning of the end for bufferbloat](https://www.cringely.com/2012/05/08/beginning-of-the-end-for-bufferbloat/) - The first public bufferbloat solution appeared in an ACM paper titled Controlling Queue Delay by Kathleen Nichols and Van Jacobson.
- [Thanks for your support of Steve Jobs -- The Lost Interview](https://www.cringely.com/2012/05/03/thanks-for-your-support-of-steve-jobs-the-lost-interview/) - Steve Jobs -- The Lost Interview Trailer
- [Steve Jobs -- The Lost Interview returning to theaters](https://www.cringely.com/2012/04/30/steve-jobs-the-lost-interview-returning-to-theaters/) - Steve Jobs -- The Lost Interview returning to theaters
- [By 2015 IBM will look like Oracle](https://www.cringely.com/2012/04/25/by-2015-ibm-will-look-like-oracle/) - IBM is restructuring to emulate Oracle
- [We're all just lab rats to IBM](https://www.cringely.com/2012/04/24/were-all-just-lab-rats-to-ibm/) - We're just lab rats to IBM
- [Ten years have passed and there is still no cure for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome](https://www.cringely.com/2012/04/22/ten-years-have-past-and-there-is-still-no-cure-for-sudden-infant-death-syndrome/) - Chase Cringely died of SIDS 10 years ago
- [How to fix IBM in a week](https://www.cringely.com/2012/04/20/how-to-fix-ibm-in-a-week/) - IBM is broken. Here's how to fix it fast.
- [Magical thinking at IBM](https://www.cringely.com/2012/04/19/magical-thinking-at-ibm/) - The third piece in a long series of columns about what's wrong with IBM
- [Something's rotten in IBM Dubuque](https://www.cringely.com/2012/04/18/somethings-rotten-in-dubuque/) - IBM's work for customers is becoming increasingly shoddy.
- [Not your father's IBM](https://www.cringely.com/2012/04/18/not-your-fathers-ibm/) - The new plan of IBM is to grow 2015 earnings-per-share to $20 by reducing US employee head count by 78 percent
- [Watch out IBM!](https://www.cringely.com/2012/04/14/watch-out-ibm/) - IBM to outsource US jobs
- [Microsoft AOL Patent Theater](https://www.cringely.com/2012/04/12/microsoft-aol-patent-theater/) - Microsoft AOL Patent Theater - I, Cringely
- [The Jack Tramiel we didn't know](https://www.cringely.com/2012/04/11/the-jack-tramiel-we-didnt-know/) - Jack Tramiel died this week at 83 and that means I missed my chance to know the guy.
- [Best Buy is Doomed](https://www.cringely.com/2012/04/10/best-buy-is-doomed/) - Best Buy is Doomed
- [A True Hollywood Story](https://www.cringely.com/2012/04/03/a-true-hollywood-story/) - Steve Jobs, Ashton Kutcher, Steve Jobs Movie, Sony Pictures, Walter Isaacson, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Triumph of the Nerds, Steve Jobs -- The Lost Interview
- [The $30 billion Social Security hack](https://www.cringely.com/2012/03/30/the-30-billion-hack/) - Sometime last year computers at the U.S. Social Security Administration were hacked and the identities of millions of Americans were compromised. What, you didn't hear about that? Nobody did. The extent of damage is only just now coming to light in the form of millions of false 2011 income tax returns filed in the names
- [Linux 3.3: Finally a little good news for bufferbloat](https://www.cringely.com/2012/03/25/linux-3-3-finally-a-little-good-news-for-bufferbloat/) - While I was out chasing computer history last week, the Linux 3.3 kernel was released. And a very interesting release it is, though not for its vaunted re-inclusion of certain Android kernel hacks. I think that modest move is being overblown in the press. No, Linux 3.3 appears to be the first OS to really
- [Computer History Day -- Part 2](https://www.cringely.com/2012/03/24/computer-history-day-part-2/) - I forget sometimes that my kids are as young as they are. And I'm also in the habit of packing as many interviews into a day as I can. Both of which explain why Computer History Day was both a success and a failure. We made it on time to breakfast with Steve Wozniak, who
- [Computer History Day -- Part 1](https://www.cringely.com/2012/03/18/computer-history-day-part-1/) - This week my kids are off school for Spring Break. Daytona and Cabo are out of the question for three caballeros ages 10, 7, and 5, but day trips around the Bay Area to learn about this or that are easy. Tuesday it's San Francisco to learn all about the cable car system for Channing's
- [How to protect your home from Leprechauns](https://www.cringely.com/2012/03/17/how-to-protect-your-home-from-leprechauns/) - Fallon on Mustache Day My son Fallon, who is five, has been worrying about Leprechauns. They’ve been talking in school about St. Patrick’s Day and a lot of that talk involves Leprechaun mischief. They come in your house, make a mess, causing problems of all sorts Fallon says. So yesterday he came up with a
- [Lessons from Redmond](https://www.cringely.com/2012/03/14/lessons-from-redmond/) - Lessons from Redmon
- [Intel may be dumb but they aren't stupid](https://www.cringely.com/2012/03/09/intel-may-be-dumb-but-they-arent-stupid/) - I was already working on a column about AMD purchasing multicore server maker SeaMicro, pointing out what a coup the deal is for AMD, when the story appeared yesterday about an Intel executive claiming the chip giant had been offered SeaMicro and chose to pass on the deal, followed by a SeaMicro board member claiming
- [Siri's big brother from Google](https://www.cringely.com/2012/03/06/siris-big-brother-from-google/) - With today’s introduction of Apple’s iPad 3 or iPad HD or whatever the hell they end up calling it, I think we’ll be entering a pretty Siri-ous phase when it comes to mobile Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. Apple has a winner in Siri, its iOS digital assistant app, and knows it, so we’ll soon be
- [Yet another way China and Google are different](https://www.cringely.com/2012/02/28/yet-another-way-china-and-google-are-different/) - I spent much of the summer of 1982 in Beijing. China was a very different place 30 years ago. Foreigners were rare, foreigners actually working in China for Chinese organizations were rarer still, and I was there to work. I was an editor at China Daily, the English language newspaper created for foreign visitors as
- [Up in flames](https://www.cringely.com/2012/02/24/up-in-flames/) - This is a column about Weber barbeque grills, but the story came from a friend who is an engineer from Purdue University and I can’t let that pass without comment. There are other engineering schools but there is only one Purdue. It’s a place where student curiosity inevitably results in every piece of machinery being
- [OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is damage control](https://www.cringely.com/2012/02/17/os-x-10-8-mountain-lion-is-damage-control/) - Was I the only one to be surprised by Apple this week announcing the arrival in the summer of yet another new version of OS X? It’s my belief OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion doesn’t represent an Apple triumph but is more damage control and preparing us for iTV. This OS X release was not
- [No Joy in YouTubeville](https://www.cringely.com/2012/02/15/no-joy-in-youtubeville/) - Some of YouTube’s more popular producers of original videos are quietly reporting their viewership numbers have suddenly dropped. The problem isn’t that viewer habits are changing. We’re still in love with cute kittens and people in pain. The problem is click fraud and online video producers are finally getting busted for it. I was told
- [Caution, train wreck in progress](https://www.cringely.com/2012/02/09/caution-train-wreck-in-progress/) - More news later today on my new/old book project, but for a moment let’s look at what’s happening in Greece, because I’ve become quite convinced that markets have gone completely mad and the world economy is about to suffer for that madness. In fact I am sure of it. That’s because stocks are up today
- [What the Dickens? Accidental Empires Rebooted](https://www.cringely.com/2012/02/07/what-the-dickens-accidental-empires-rebooted/) - Today is the 200th birthday of author Charles Dickens, yet also an oddly appropriate moment to announce a new edition of my book Accidental Empires in a very 21st century format. Late last year a reader pointed out to me that 2012 is the 20th anniversary of Accidental Empires which was, in its own way,
- [Zuckerberg's Complaint](https://www.cringely.com/2012/02/06/zuckerbergs-complaint/) - Facebook last week announced its Initial Public Offering -- exactly the event I said wouldn’t happen in one of my controversial predictions for 2012. But I’m sticking with my call on this one since we’re 2-3 months from the actual event and a lot can happen to screw things up between now and then. I’m
- [What would Sharon do?](https://www.cringely.com/2012/02/03/what-would-sharon-do/) - This is my third and (I hope) last column in a series on education. If things work as planned this is where I’ll make some broad generalizations that piss-off a lot of people, incite a small riot in the comments section, after which we’ll all feel better and switch to discussing the Facebook IPO. So
- [Class Dismissed: Even good students don't always want to learn](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/31/class-dismissed-even-good-students-dont-always-want-to-learn/) - Last week we heard from my new hero Steve, an electrical engineer turned high school math teacher, with his reservations about technology as a motivator for student success. Notice this week I can use Steve’s first name, though not his last name or the name of the school where he teaches. This alone says volumes
- [Hello, Mr. Chips](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/24/hello-mr-chips/) - I received an e-mail last week from someone who is sure to become one of my heroes -- an electrical engineer turned high school math teacher. He was concerned about the proper use of technology, especially iPads, in the classroom, and had quite specific suggestions for what to do. We’ll probably get to that in
- [Absence makes the heart grow fonder and other weird thoughts](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/19/absence-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder-and-other-weird-thoughts/) - How many times yesterday did you do a web search that led you to a Wikipedia page that then didn’t load because of that site’s SOPA protest? I didn’t notice the effect immediately but once I did I was later able to go back through my browser history and see that I tried and failed
- [Siri may infringe old Excite patents](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/14/siri-may-infringe-old-excite-patents/) - multidimensional, get it? I was watching this Bloomberg video the other day featuring Shawn Carolan, the venture capitalist who backed the Siri electronic personal assistant startup then sold it to Apple. His was the closest I’d heard to a technical explanation of how Siri works and it surprised me because it sounded a lot like
- [Mamas don't let your babies grow up to see trade shows](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/10/mamas-dont-let-your-babies-grow-up-to-see-trade-shows/) - Richard Alley, a geoscience professor at Penn State, drilled into the Antarctic a few years ago removing a half-mile ice core documenting the last Ice Age, which Alley determined had lasted 10,000 years then came to an abrupt end in only three years. That may seem an odd analogy for this week’s Consumer Electronics Show
- [Prediction 8: No more predictions](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/05/prediction-8-no-more-predictions/) - When I started this gig in September, 1987 Ronald Reagan was President, there was no commercial Internet, Oprah had been on the air for less than a year, and a fairly powerful PC was an IBM PC AT running at 8 MHz. In September that will have been 25 years and I think 25 years
- [Prediction 7: A new Microsoft CEO](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/05/prediction-7-a-new-microsoft-ceo/) - Steve Ballmer has always been nice to me. I can’t say we have much of a relationship, but the half dozen times I have interviewed him have always gone well and he tries to please, which I appreciate. But (there’s always a but, isn’t there?) Ballmer has failed at Microsoft and I believe 2012 will
- [Prediction 6: Thompson's no Yahoo](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/04/prediction-6-thompsons-no-yahoo/) - Let me be clear about this just in case my clever headline makes no sense: I think the Yahoo board punted by hiring Scott Thompson, who is either a stooge for Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang or a convenient placeholder until the company can be sold. I have nothing against Thompson, who did an able, if
- [Prediction 5: No IPO for Facebook](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/04/prediction-5-no-ipo-for-facebook/) - Companies go public for many reasons but the two that are most common are: 1) to raise capital for further expansion, and; 2) to secure the wealth of the founders. Some companies go public for different reasons, like Microsoft’s IPO back in 1986 that was literally forced by excessive secondary trading of company shares. Gates
- [Prediction #4: Motorola buys TiVO](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/03/prediction-4-motorola-buys-tivo/) - What’s going to happen with TiVO? The pioneering Digital Video Recorder company is still in business with around a million subscribers and it has lately been settling patent infringement cases with big companies like Echostar and -- just this week -- with AT&T, but the longer term prospects for the company are dim. Yes, they’ll
- [Prediction 3: Intel buys Qualcomm](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/02/prediction-3-intel-buys-qualcomm/) - The new -- and younger -- face of Intel The dominant theme in this set of predictions for 2012 is the mobile conversion as we abandon our desktops for mobile devices and the Cloud. Intel, while the dominant maker of microprocessors, doesn’t have a strong product position in mobile. Worse still, the company has a
- [Prediction #2: Amazon and Bezos supplant Apple and Jobs](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/02/prediction-2-amazon-and-bezos-supplant-apple-and-jobs/) - If Apple gives up its position of industry leadership in 2012 the only company capable of assuming that role is Amazon.com. What other company is there? In the PC space giants like HP and Dell are good followers, not leaders. Intel doesn’t even see itself in such a leadership role. Microsoft is having trouble just
- [Prediction #1: A new CEO for Apple](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/02/prediction-1-a-new-ceo-for-apple/) - 2012 will be a year of great transition in the technology industry with the big changes coming more on the corporate level than in products. Sure, Windows 8 is on its way as are any number of new products, services, and whole companies, but the major story playing-out is who will lead the mobile transition?
- [What hath Bob wrought? Looking back at Cringely's 2011 predictions](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/02/what-hath-bob-wrought-looking-back-at-cringelys-2011-predictions/) - Uh-oh, it's almost time for my annual technology predictions but, as usual, I will begin by taking a look at my predictions from a year ago, which I fear were pretty dismal. Why I’m the only pundit to voluntarily go through this agony I don’t know, but a cursory look shows that I missed with
- [There's no time like anytime](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/29/theres-no-time-like-anytime/) - This Christmas I added a Windows server to our home network because my kids were finding some favorite programs were unplayable over their RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) thin clients. So I bought a very inexpensive Windows 7 desktop and for $89 at Walmart added Microsoft’s Anytime Upgrade to Windows 7 Professional, which is needed to
- [Like shooting ducks in a barrel](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/27/like-shooting-ducks-in-a-barrel/) - Fourteen years ago I gave a speech to the National Association of State and Provincial Lotteries at their annual meeting, held that year in Minneapolis. They gave me a hand-carved wooden duck decoy that’s on my bookshelf today. My topic was this thing called the Internet and what it would mean to state lotteries and
- [Why big companies can't change](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/20/why-big-companies-cant-change/) - There’s a very good TED Talk by Simon Sinek about how great leaders inspire companies by asking why? I think it also goes a long way toward explaining why big companies don’t handle change well. It’s not that they can’t ask why?, it’s that the answer doesn’t make sense at their scale, though it should.
- [For Mobile OS's, Three's a Crowd](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/20/for-mobile-oss-threes-a-crowd/) - I was speaking recently at a software company very interested in mobile apps. One of their concerns had to do with which operating systems to support. Should they do them all? Just a couple? My advice was that three's a crowd. Technical markets tend to divide like bettors at the racetrack where five percent win,
- [The once and future WebOS](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/14/the-once-and-future-webos/) - WebOS, first from Palm and then from Hewlett Packard, came and went so fast most mobile software developers never even got a chance to play with it. Now HP has declared WebOS to be Open Source, placing the project (it’s really not a product anymore) under CEO Meg Whitman to show they haven’t totally given
- [Cloudy judgement at BAE Systems](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/09/cloudy-judgement-at-bae-systems/) - Microsoft last week lost a potential European customer for its cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 product over concerns about the Patriot Act allowing U.S. government access to to private data. UK defense contractor BAE Systems said they’d changed plans on advice of their lawyers. Smart lawyers. If we have to rely on lawyers for data security advice,
- [Apple looks for its checkbook](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/08/apple-looks-for-its-checkbook/) - Just a short thought. Apple has lost control of the iPad trademark in China but retains it in the rest of the world. Readers warn that China will be soon awash in iPad clones. ProView Technologies, the Taiwanese company that presently controls the iPad trademark, was near bankruptcy until yesterday. Apple has $80 billion in
- [Still wired after all these years](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/04/still-wired-after-all-these-years/) - Verizon Wireless announced Friday that it was paying $3.6 billion to three cable TV companies -- Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks -- in exchange for wireless licenses the companies bought in an FCC auction in 2005. Pundits are describing the deal, and especially its cross-marketing provisions, as revolutionary with the potential to
- [Damage Control](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/01/damage-control/) - Note -- Reader consensus below seems to be that I'm the one drinking the Flav-r-ade in this post, so proceed at your own risk. That's not how I see it, of course. CNN asked me about this issue yesterday and I think it is pretty clear, but that may be in part a reflection of
- [Silence is golden](https://www.cringely.com/2011/11/24/silence-is-golden/) - Sitting here in Santa Rosa drinking too much coffee while the turkey cooks I’ve been reading the Black Friday sale fliers and you know what’s missing? Desktop computers. Radio Shack doesn’t even have a desktop on sale tomorrow and even Walmart has only one. This season marks the triumph of notebook and tablet computers I’d
- [Intel is fit to be Thai'd](https://www.cringely.com/2011/11/15/intel-is-fit-to-be-thaid/) - -- I’ve been so busy getting my little movie ready for theaters I’ve hardly had a chance to write. So for a change here’s something not about Steve Jobs. Thailand is flooded, as we’ve all read, and the Thai hard disk industry has been adversely affected. But for all the doom-and-gloom stories I’ve read so
- [Seeking a final resolution](https://www.cringely.com/2011/11/06/seeking-a-final-resolution/) - Of all the reader suggestions for what I should do with my little film Steve Jobs -- The Lost Interview, not one involved showing the movie in theaters. Yet that was the first thing that came to my mind. How old media-like of me and how new media-like of you. So we’re opening November 16th for
- [How to get a job after the Singularity comes](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/30/how-to-get-a-job-after-the-singularity-comes/) - That young man with the waxed mustache and gallic countenance is my son Cole, age seven. We’ve been studying division, going on long walks with Sadie the dog, and thinking about walking together all the way across the USA, which would require by our calculation 138 days of walking with no days off. This has
- [Apple gets Siri-ous about TV](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/29/apple-gets-siri-ous-about-tv/) - Walter Isaacson, in his new biography of Steve Jobs, reveals that Apple is planning to introduce its own televisions, attempting to revolutionize that space in the same way it did mobile phones with the iPhone. He quotes Jobs as having said that he had finally cracked the technical issues of controlling such a TV, though
- [Meg's Revenge](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/27/megs-revenge/) - There is no joy in Round Rock. Early this morning the database servers at Dell Computer went down hard. The company is unable to accept orders on its web site and almost 5000 Dell sales reps trying to meet their quotas in the last week of the quarter are unable to book sales. Today's loss
- [Remembering Dennis Ritchie](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/18/remembering-dennis-ritchie/) - I’ve been catching some flak from readers for having not written a column on the recent passing of Dennis Ritchie, father of the C programming language and co-author (with Ken Thompson) of UNIX. Ritchie also wrote with Brian Kernighan The C programming Language, which we all have on our bookshelves and some of us have
- [Unanswered Steve Jobs questions](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/06/unanswered-steve-jobs-questions/) - A lot has been said about Steve Jobs in the 24 hours since his death and some of that has come from me. It has been 24 hours of round-the-world media interviews, most of them live but you can see an edited version of me this Friday on ABC’s 20/20, which is doing a Jobs
- [Steve Jobs](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-is-dead/) - And now the frenzy begins. Running this story in reverse it's suddenly clear why Apple didn't introduce the iPhone 5 this week. It would have been lost in the news of Jobs's death, killing the marketing value he would have loved. I'm sure the phone will appear in a week or two with that appearance
- [Kindle Fire: Take three tablets and call me in the morning](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/28/kindle-fire-take-three-tablets-and-call-me-in-the-morning/) - I love the Kindle Fire tablet launched today, even though I have yet to touch one. I love the $199 price, the clever browser (more about that below, it may surprise you), the tight integration, the application, book and video marketplace, the small size, I even like the limited features compared with an iPad. The
- [Larry Page's Manhattan Project](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/27/larry-pages-manhattan-project/) - This week I’m at NASA’s Green Flight Challenge in our new home town of Santa Rosa, California. It’s a contest for efficient flight using alternative energy that I’ll be writing more about later in the week. Much of the $1.65 million in prize money comes from Google, the subject of this column. I’ve been giving
- [Why Brian Utley should be HP interim CEO](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/22/why-brian-utley-should-be-hp-interim-ceo/) - I’ve already explained why I think Meg Whitman is a poor choice to lead Hewlett Packard. Here’s why Brian Utley would be so much better. What HP needs most at this point is breathing room and hiring Brian as interim CEO would do that, allowing the company to make a proper CEO search (including a
- [Brian Utley (not Meg Whitman) for HP Interim CEO](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/22/brian-utley-not-meg-whitman-for-hp-interim-ceo/) - Retired IBM executive Brian Utley Since the consensus view seems to be that Hewlett Packard will today replace CEO Leo Apotheker with board member Meg Whitman, let’s just assume that’s what will happen. Now I’ll explain why it is a bad idea. Oh getting rid of Leo (or not hiring him in the first
- [Cringely's second column on the firing of Leo Apotheker](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/21/cringelys-second-column-on-the-firing-of-leo-apotheker/) - What me worry? Given the news from Hewlett Packard today about the HP board reportedly firing CEO Leo Apotheker and replacing him with board member (and former eBay CEO) Meg Whitman, I could write a new column or take the easy way out and simply reprint my column from February 23rd predicting in some detail
- [Net Flixup](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/21/net-flixup/) - I first met Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings in 2001 at a Maxtor event where I was the dinner speaker. He explained then that the company had always intended to deliver movies over the Internet (hence the name Netflix) but was starting with DVDs because the network infrastructure simply wasn’t ready for digital delivery. They’d eventually
- [Truth About Fukushima Daiichi](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/20/truth-about-fukushima-daiichi/) - Note -- I have written previously about other aspects of this subject here, here, here, and here. I am not by nature an alarmist about nuclear power or even particularly anti-nuclear. But sometimes truth just has to be told. Nobody died following the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in 1979. I should know because
- [Ballmer's Last Stand](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/19/ballmers-last-stand/) - Moving sucks. Our furniture arrived late last week so I’ve been off the clock for awhile and there is a lot of catching-up to do. We’ll start with Microsoft and Windows 8, which I’ll argue are going to be formidable competitors in the tablet space, primarily because it’s that or start spending all that cash
- [What's a Yahoo to Do?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/11/whats-a-yahoo-to-do/) - This is my promised follow-up to How Not to Run Yahoo, so I suppose this should have been titled How to Run Yahoo, but I’m too much of a smart-ass for that. I spoke to a bunch of smart people (past and present Yahoos) some of whom even allowed me to print their names, and
- [To a Man With a Hammer: Some Thoughts on the Pentagon and World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/11/to-a-man-with-a-hammer-some-thoughts-on-the-pentagon-and-world-trade-center-terrorist-attacks/) - To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, here is my column originally published September 13, 2001. My smarter and handsomer brother was in Northern New Jersey on Tuesday looking across the water at what was for just a moment longer the single remaining tower of the World Trade Center. A cold front
- [How Not to Run Yahoo](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/08/how-not-to-run-yahoo/) - I seem to be writing a lot of these What the heck was that? columns explaining recent news events. This time it is the firing of Carol Bartz as CEO of Yahoo. I’m not here to defend Bartz, whom I would have fired long ago (or more probably not hired in the first place), but
- [Be a Hero, Barry](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/03/be-a-hero-barry/) - This is the third of three columns on human behavior and systemic problems. The first column covered in general how our complacency allows us to be taken advantage of, especially when information technology is involved. The second column, based in part on my friend Ralph’s mortgage problems, showed one example of how a class of
- [Mortgage Reality Distortion Field](https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/31/mortgage-reality-distortion-field/) - This is the second of what now appear to be three columns about how we as a people allow ourselves to be victimized, whether by unscrupulous computer hackers or unscrupulous computer bankers. This part is about the bankers -- the guys whose bonuses were too big to be discontinued. Part three will present a possible
- [Our Own Worst Enemies](https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/31/our-own-worst-enemies/) - Note -- This is the first of two three very different columns about what turns out to be the same topic. I was driving back to college in my red 1966 Oldsmobile Cutlass convertible when a pickup truck appeared before me on the two-lane road going perhaps 20 mph under the speed limit, which was
- [Cupertino Two-Step](https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/24/cupertino-two-step/) - I was about to board an airplane Wednesday when Apple announced the resignation of Steve Jobs as CEO and his replacement by Tim Cook. With a couple hours to think on my flight to Charleston it became clear to me that this story is far from over and the long-term leadership of Apple has not
- [Is the Mac Pro dead?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/23/is-the-mac-pro-dead/) - Semi Pro A rumor surfaced yesterday in Japan that Apple would by the end of the year introduce a radical new kind of Macintosh computer. That was it -- new Mac, radical -- yet dozens of sites ran with this non-information simply because Apple is a hot company and, who knows, it might be correct.
- [Losing the HP Way](https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/19/losing-the-hp-way/) - Hewlett Packard was different from other Silicon Valley companies and always a leader. By the time I met Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in the late 1970s they were nearing retirement but still active and I knew them, working occasionally for both men and for their respective foundations. Hewlett was the good cop and Packard
- [MotoGoogle](https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/16/motogoogle/) - Driving Miss Sadie Last week I announced that I’m planning my own Android phone and the next thing you know Google does the same thing! Coincidence? I think not. Our motivations are somewhat different, however, and their budget, at $12.5 billion, is marginally higher. I’ve had plenty of time to think about this as I
- [Been there, done that: Private label newspaper tablets make no sense](https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/09/been-there-done-that-private-label-newspaper-tablets-make-no-sense/) - Metropolitan newspapers in Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other places, seeking to survive, are embracing tablet editions to the point of marketing their own e-readers, most of which seem to be Android tablets. It’s a noble effort to avoid extinction but I’m here to tell you it won’t work. Private label tablet computers are a bad
- [The Cringely Internet Civility Plan](https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/08/the-cringely-internet-civility-plan/) - A reader came to me this week with a problem. He was being sued in federal court by a company claiming he had defamed them online. That will be $75,000, please. I’m not getting into who the reader is, which company is suing, even what jurisdiction, because none of that matters here. But the case
- [Apple's Money](https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/01/apples-money/) - In Steve we trust. All of us were reminded over and over and over during the last few days that Apple has more cash on hand than does the U.S. government. This coincidence means precisely nothing to either outfit. We won’t see President Obama asking Steve Jobs for a loan, nor will we see Steve
- [Internet Class Warfare](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/30/internet-class-warfare/) - My last column on broadband data caps rubbed the wrong way my old friend Brett Glass, an Internet Service Provider in Laramie, Wyoming. “Your most recent article regarding ISPs and bandwidth caps is misleading and inaccurate,” wrote Brett. “I hope you haven't joined Bob Frankston's ‘kill all service providers’ camp, because it sure seems like
- [Bandwidth caps are rate hikes](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/28/bandwidth-caps-are-rate-hikes/) - Internet Service Providers in the USA are trying to apply bandwidth caps to their users, with those caps being 2, 4, or 5 gigabytes-per-month for wireless users at various price levels and generally 250 gigabytes-per-month for home users. Most of the press coverage of this issue comes down on the side of consumers but lately
- [Bufferbloat 2: The Need for Speed](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/25/bufflerbloat-2-the-need-for-speed/) - Almost eight months ago in my annual predictions column I made a big deal about Bufferbloat, which was the name Bell Labs researcher Jim Gettys had given to the insidious corruption of Internet service by too many intelligent network devices. Well I’ve been testing one of the first products designed to treat bufferbloat and am
- [The Future of Hulu and U.S. TV](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/22/the-future-of-hulu-and-u-s-tv/) - Who will buy Hulu, the IPTV streaming service and why should we care? I’m not sure I do care, now that Lie to Me has been canceled, but in case you are an American who feels the future of series television is important, here’s what I think is going on. The Wall $treet Journal says
- [The Decline and Fall of Facebook](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/20/the-decline-and-fall-of-facebook/) - Roger with his axe Roger McNamee is a smart guy and a very successful investor as a co-founder of Elevation Partners. He made a breakfast presentation last month at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles that is well worth watching. I could probably get half a dozen columns out of this one speech,
- [700 MHz opportunity down the toilet (no, make that stolen)](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/19/700-mhz-opportunity-down-the-toilet-no-make-that-stolen/) - Today, if you have a few million bucks to spare, the Federal Communications Commission will be auctioning wireless licenses in the 700 MHz band -- primo space in many respects because it is lower on the RF spectrum and offers longer range. But Auction 92, as it is called, is anything but primo, since it
- [Entrepreneurial OCD](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/13/entrepreneurial-ocd/) - I don’t often respond to other bloggers but today I was asked to do so by my friend Dr. Steven Berglas who blogs for Forbes and is quite an expert on executive and entrepreneur psychology. Steve wrote recently about President Obama’s call for shared sacrifice in the current budget fistfight with Congress, claiming this was
- [All My Children a killer app?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/08/all-my-children-a-killer-app/) - Not so sick after all? This may seem an odd topic, but stick with me. Yesterday Disney's ABC television network said it was licensing two canceled daytime TV soap operas to a production company that would be moving the shows to the Internet. I seem to be the only one who thinks this is a
- [The flip side of cyber bullying](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/07/the-flip-side-of-cyber-bullying/) - There is no good aspect to cyber bullying, but maybe there’s a little light to be found in the underlying idea that people interact differently online than they do in person. That’s not all bad if it gives a voice -- an academic voice -- to students who might otherwise remain silent in class. This
- [The enemy of my enemy](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/01/the-enemy-of-my-enemy/) - Nortel Networks, the bankrupt Canadian telecom company, came that much closer to disappearing completely yesterday with the cash sale of its portfolio of 6000 patents for $4.5 billion to a consortium of companies including Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, Research In Motion (RIM), and Sony. The bidding, which began with a $900 million offer from Google,
- [CBS steals my work](https://www.cringely.com/2011/06/30/cbs-steals-my-work/) - General Counsel CBS Interactive, Inc. 235 Second Street San Francisco, CA 94105 415/344.2000 I called you about this but you didn’t return my call. Your CNet TV site has been stealing my work. Try a search on “CNet” and “NerdTV” and you’ll find many of my NerdTV my shows, complete with their Creative Commons attributions
- [Have you heard the one about Apple's data center?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/06/28/have-you-heard-the-one-about-apples-data-center/) - Security gate from Startown Rd. In a few days we’ll be leaving Carolina, possibly forever. Following the recent death of my father-in-law -- our reason for coming here in the first place -- Silicon Valley calls once more. But before leaving town I was determined to scope out that $1 billion Apple data center in
- [Intercontinental Ballistic App Store](https://www.cringely.com/2011/06/22/intercontinental-ballistic-app-store/) - Death Star I’ve been thinking about Apple’s App Store and the industry paradigm shift it represents. Apple loves to change the game like this, simultaneously unseating previously entrenched adversaries while building for itself a defensible system for the future. The trick to making it work is to not appear to be too greedy and I
- [IBM didn't invent the personal computer but they don't know that.](https://www.cringely.com/2011/06/16/ibm-didnt-invent-the-personal-computer-but-they-dont-know-that/) - We’ve been away for a few days celebrating Fallon’s fifth birthday in Orlando where the preferred destination has shifted from Disney to Universal Studios, source of all things Harry Potter. While we were away, IBM celebrated its 100th birthday by claiming, among other things, to have invented the personal computer, soiling the legacy of Ed
- [When Engineers Lie](https://www.cringely.com/2011/06/09/when-engineers-lie/) - Twenty years ago, when I was writing Accidental Empires, my book about the PC industry, I included near the beginning a little rant about how good engineers were incapable of lying, because their work relied on Terminal A being positive and not negative and if they lied about such things then nothing would ever work.
- [Stupid IT Tricks: Medical Records](https://www.cringely.com/2011/06/02/stupid-it-tricks-medical-records/) - A reader asked me to write tonight about the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, which is about as far from something I would like to write about as I can imagine, but this is a full service blog so what the heck. The idea behind the law is laudable -- standardized
- [What Microsoft should do](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/28/what-microsoft-should-do/) - Before this week’s Lockheed Martin network breach story intervened, I wrote a column about the strategic dilemma faced by Microsoft from downward trends in both product pricing and new installations for its flagship Windows and Office products. That's on top of an overall market transition to mobile where Microsoft does not seem to be playing
- [Steve Ballmer's Nightmare](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/25/steve-ballmers-nightmare/) - The upcoming 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows, which Microsoftologists have taken to calling Windows 8 because Redmond has yet to announce an official name, has been appearing here and there and getting some press in the process. Microsoft has made a few statements, demonstrated early version of the OS, and some alpha code has even
- [Charlie Ergen's War](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/23/charlie-ergens-war/) - A third of the readers of this column are not in the USA and I can’t claim anymore that America is on the cutting-edge of all things Internet so I’ll just fall back on the argument that this is happening here and could just as easily be happening in your country, too. Which brings us
- [Netflix too big to fail?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/19/netflix-too-big-to-fail/) - The Intertubes are alight this week with old news -- that Netflix is the largest user of U.S. Internet bandwidth. Most stories cite a Sandvine report I won't link to because you'd have to subscribe and I like you too much for that. Better still, look at the very interesting graphic above, courtesy of Arbor
- [Google at Carson's Speed](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/19/google-at-carsons-speed/) - Search is a fundamental component of intelligence or even thought. Maybe that's why Google is now calling it knowledge. Our brains are already good at search. Look around a room and every object your eye passes is identified in your brain. Something out of place? It catches your eye. That is where we are headed
- [Google decides knowledge is power](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/18/google-decides-knowledge-is-power/) - Back in 2008 I declared that the information economy was giving way to what I called the search economy. The Internet was making it more important to know how to find information than to actually possess that information, because data -- and therefore the fully-explored truth of any matter -- might be constantly in flux.
- [Jann Wenner is my hero](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/13/jann-wenner-is-my-hero/) - This is one of those columns that will piss-off some of my geekier readers. They’ll complain that I am covering this subject at all, they will declare me dead or at least too stupid to be worth reading, and they will claim to be departing Cringelyville never to return. Frankly, I don’t give a damn.
- [Why Microsoft bought Skype](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/12/why-microsoft-bought-skype/) - There is so much to write about but I’ll begin with Microsoft buying Skype for $8.5 billion. The pundits are debating whether this move by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer makes good business sense, but that’s the wrong way to look at it. The better approach is to wonder what would have happened had Microsoft not
- [What the heck is a Clickochet?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/10/what-the-heck-is-a-clickochet/) - Whether at the casino or the race track, the house always wins. That’s the way it has always been, too, with Internet advertising. Nearly all Internet ad dollars are spent in two ways: 1) buying ads from advertising networks whether that network is Google or Yahoo or even IDGTechNet, which sells space on this rag,
- [How urban legends are born](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/08/how-urban-legends-are-born/) - Those who are impatient for more technology coverage and are bothered that I actually have a life can look forward to a big column coming this evening. For the rest of you here's something wonderful and funny that happened last night. That's my wife, the young and lovely Mary Alyce, in one of her less
- [Til death do us part: Sony and the credit card companies](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/02/til-death-do-us-part-sony-and-the-credit-card-companies/) - Remember, after the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, those stories about wallets filled with money being found and turned-in to the authorities, still stuffed with cash? That’s one positive aspect of Japanese culture, but does it also make them too trusting? Sony’s loss of first 77 million customer records and now another 24.6 million
- [Sony may be clueless in PSN hack](https://www.cringely.com/2011/04/28/sony-may-be-clueless-in-psn-hack/) - Sony’s huge PlayStation Network (PSN) has been down for a week now following the theft of ID and credit card data on some or all of the gaming and video entertainment network’s 77 million customer accounts. Readers have been asking for comment but I stay out of these things unless I have something new to
- [Better late than never...](https://www.cringely.com/2011/04/24/better-late-than-never/) - BBC Radio 4 called this weekend hoping I would be willing to be interviewed in the middle of the night for their celebration of what they were calling "the 50th anniversary of the microchip," which I came to understand meant the planar process that made possible the first integrated circuit. But this is the 52nd
- [Memo from the bleeding edge](https://www.cringely.com/2011/04/22/memo-from-the-bleeding-edge/) - Successful technology startups are usually those that hit the market in a sweet spot -- where market conditions create significant demand just as the startup is introducing its product. From the look of the rapidly-consolidating hard drive business, it might appear that I’ve missed the sweet spot with the metal foil disk technology some readers
- [Sorry, wrong number](https://www.cringely.com/2011/04/20/sorry-wrong-number/) - I was in Los Angeles last Friday for TV meetings and lost my iPhone 4. It was on my belt and suddenly it wasn’t. Then in one of those deja vu experiences I noticed that I was only steps from an Apple Store, so I went inside to trace my iPhone using the Where is
- [Cyberpolice Academy](https://www.cringely.com/2011/04/17/cyberpolice-academy/) - While we’ve gone close to a decade since 9/11 without airliners smashing into skyscrapers, it is hard to see the Department of Homeland Security as an unvarnished success. Under a variety of directors the department has consistently taken a heavy-handed approach to security that upsets travelers on the left and right alike, relies too much
- [Larry Page's running start: but is he running in the right direction?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/04/10/larry-pages-running-start-but-is-he-running-in-the-right-direction/) - A few months ago I wrote a column giving advice to Larry Page when it was announced that he would be taking-over once again as CEO of Google. Not that Google is especially in trouble, but it is a big job getting 50,000 feet marching in the same direction. In order to make that happen
- [Purgatory at 37 degrees](https://www.cringely.com/2011/04/07/purgatory-at-37-degrees/) - At the heart of the current U. S. mortgage crisis are a variety of players that include circa 2006 home buyers with houses they couldn’t really afford, mortgage brokers who sold mortgages to people they knew couldn’t afford them, banks who turned those mortgages into securities that were bound to (in some cases designed to)
- [The Epsilon Syndrome](https://www.cringely.com/2011/04/07/the-epsilon-syndrome/) - Like a lot of you, this week I received several messages telling me my e-mail address had been stolen from a company called Epsilon that provides mass e-mail services to many giant corporations. At the end of this post you’ll find what I believe is the latest list of companies affected. I have heard from
- [Geeks like me: What's Engadget really worth?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/04/05/geeks-like-me-whats-engadget-really-worth/) - Eat more herring! Thorstein Veblen was a cranky Norwegian-American economist best known for his 1899 book The Theory of the Leisure Class where he coined the term conspicuous consumption, which meant that if former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski bought a $9000 shower curtain with company money he should probably go to prison... and did. Veblen
- [I told you so](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/30/i-told-you-so/) - Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is out with his autobiography and Vanity Fair has an excerpt available online. As the Nth richest man in the world, Allen isn't doing this for the money. Maybe it's for posterity. Maybe to settle old grudges, and he certainly does that in Vanity Fair. The part of that excerpt everyone
- [Plutonium is forever           ](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/30/plutonium-is-forever/) - I have been doing business in Japan for 20 years, consulting for big and small companies, speaking at conferences, writing for Japanese publications, and helping both American and Japanese companies do business with each other. For years I flew to Tokyo once a month, generally in my role as giver of bad news, which I
- [Shoe death](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/26/shoe-death/) - This is my son Fallon's shoe, a Skecher's Hot Lights Chopper, U.S. size 12. The toe, filled with LED lights, is glowing in the picture. It has been blinking at me from across the room all evening now. It reminds me of the heart of a shark I once saw beating on a dock in
- [IPV6 is coming (yeah, right)](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/26/ipv6-is-coming-yeah-right/) - Microsoft last week bought just over 600,000 IP addresses (a /10 block and a /11 block if you are counting) for $7.5 million from bankrupt Nortel. For a moment there it was everywhere on the web, a mild reminder of what happens during famine when gluttons hoard food. But what is really going-on here, and
- [Ivan the Terrible?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/22/ivan-the-terrible/) - If you were Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, faced with suddenly becoming the number two mobile phone company in America following an AT&T/T-Mobile merger, what would you do? You could try to buy Sprint, and for all I know Seidenberg will do just that. You could make a counter-offer for T-Mobile, but that would just be
- [AT&T needs T-Mobile most for its WiFi](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/21/att-needs-t-mobile-most-for-its-wifi/) - In the 36 hours or so since AT&T and Deutsche Telekom announced that the American carrier would be buying the U. S. subsidiary of the German phone company, there has been plenty of speculation (some of it right here) about what this will mean for customers and the wireless industry, but not very much, frankly,
- [Will AT&T buying T-Mobile make jailbroken and unlocked iPhones finally legal?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/20/will-att-buying-t-mobile-make-jailbroken-iphones-legal/) - So AT&T is buying T-Mobile USA for $39 billion in a deal that makes perfect sense if you are an RF engineer or a fat-cat telco tycoon, but my question is what happens to all the jailbroken and unlocked iPhones? T-Mobile and AT&T are the USA's only GSM wireless network operators, so if you had
- [Who ya gonna call? Supertanker!](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/16/who-ya-gonna-call-supertanker/) - At this point in the Japanese nuclear emergency it is coming down to the simple proposition of how do you drop enough water on the stricken reactors, and especially the spent fuel ponds, to keep further damage from happening? The Japanese Self-Defense Force is experimenting with helicopter water drops which are, frankly, stupid. The choppers
- [Hollywood's impending Internet revolution](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/15/hollywoods-impending-internet-revolution/) - These boys need bikes! New York Magazine wrote recently that YouTube was planning to throw large sums of money at celebrities who would then make short form (three minute) videos for the site. The numbers mentioned were staggering (up to $5 million per celebrity channel) but the business model is crazy. It’s the three minute
- [Is anything nuclear ever really super safe small and simple?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/13/is-anything-nuclear-ever-really-super-safe-small-and-simple/) - The gaping maw of Chernobyl. Absent some terrible news from Japan this will be my second and last column about the nuclear accidents unfolding there. It turned out I was right last time about the sodium polyboride or boric acid or whatever neutron absorber the Japanese authorities dumped in first one and now two reactors
- [Flea powder may be saving lives in Japan](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/11/flea-powder-may-be-saving-lives-in-japan/) - There’s a 40 year-old nuclear reactor cooling-down right now in Japan following the big earthquake in that country. Actually there are 11 such reactors cooling-down, automatically brought offline by the 8.9 temblor, but one of those reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi generating plant is not going gracefully and 3000 people have been moved from their
- [Towers of babble: Sprint probably ISN'T buying T-Mobile](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/08/towers-of-babble-sprint-probably-isnt-buying-t-mobile/) - Bloomberg reported today that Sprint is in talks to buy T-Mobile, the U.S. wireless division of Deutsche Telekom, according to the usual unnamed sources. As a result, shares of both companies are moving, tongues are wagging, as are the fingers of technical analysts saying such a tie-up might not be a very good idea given
- [Big Bang Theory](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/07/big-bang-theory/) - The world is in turmoil with the Middle East experiencing something like a social revolution, so what’s the last remaining superpower to do? I’m serious. Colonel Qaddafi is bringing heavy armor and air power to bear against the rebels opposing him in Eastern Libya and inflicting some serious casualties. The rebels are calling for U.
- [Fear of flying -- Why the iPad 2 isn't even better](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/03/fear-of-flying/) - A good friend of mine pointed out the money phrase from Steve Jobs at this week’s iPad 2 introduction: "This is worth repeating. It's in Apple's DNA that technology is not enough. It's tech married with the liberal arts and the humanities. Nowhere is that more true than in the post-PC products. Our competitors are
- [Just shoot me](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/28/just-shoot-me/) - Last night I was surfing the web and came across a news story titled Ten Things Americans Waste the Most Money On from a web site called 24/7 Wall Street. I’ll save you the trouble of reading the story: we Americans waste our money (in monetary order from most to least) on restaurants, gifts, audio/video
- [Why Leo Apotheker will be fired from Hewlett Packard](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/23/why-leo-apotheker-will-be-fired-from-hewlett-packard/) - I don’t think Leo Apotheker is going to survive long as CEO of Hewlett Packard. This is not based on any inside information, just my own pondering. And when Apotheker does go down, I’m pretty sure I know who will take his place. The players in this drama are Apotheker, various HP executives, and the
- [Attack of the Minis](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/21/attack-of-the-minis/) - Next week Apple will have a product event, presumably to announce the next generation of MacBook Pro notebooks. Every year we see these upgrades. The notebooks get faster with more storage and every couple years they look a little different. This time, however, there will be another change -- the addition of a new type
- [Major Jalloud](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/20/major-jolloud/) - Long before I became involved with technology I worked as a reporter in the Middle East. My work there introduced me to many important characters of that era. Some of them, like Yassar Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization and King Hussein of Jordan, are long gone from the scene. I effectively predated Mubarak, and
- [The click of death](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/19/the-click-of-death/) - A longtime reader checked-in today with one more story of Internet generational change. We used to call it just disintermediation, but in its later stages this syndrome requires new consumers who may have never even visited a bookstore... or had to. "The family went to Borders today to look for a book or two. The
- [Let them eat veggies: Obama has dinner with Steve](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/17/let-them-eat-veggies-obama-has-dinner-with-steve/) - President Obama last night had dinner at John Doerr’s house in Silicon Valley and for some reason I wasn’t invited. I wish I had been. Can you imagine Obama making small talk with Steve Jobs? This is an instance where Steve’s lack of an internal censor probably served the event well, or at least I
- [AOL Hell](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/14/aol-hell/) - Maybe it was that column I wrote recently about AOL buying the Huffington Post, but I swear AOL has turned on me. Share my pain. Back in the early 1990s I got an AOL dial-up account to use while traveling. It was one of the few Internet services that had global dial-up, so I could
- [Burning the ships at Nokia](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/14/burning-the-ships-at-nokia/) - When John Sculley forced Steve Jobs out of Apple back in 1985, the former PepsiCo marketing executive very quickly produced dramatic improvements in Apple’s profitability. Apple wasn’t losing money before, but Sculley improved the bottom line by about $200 million (a lot in those days) simply by cutting all of Steve Jobs’s pet projects that
- [Rushing the net: Nokia's coming fight to the Finnish](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/11/rushing-the-net/) - Nokia today announced that the Finnish cellphone company is choosing Windows 7 Phone as the operating system for its future smart phones. It’s not a surprising move given that Nokia CEO Stephen Elop came from Microsoft and it’s not even that risky a move given that the alternative was a slow but certain death for
- [Ken Olsen and post-industrial computing](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/09/ken-olsen-and-post-industrial-computing/) - Digital Equipment Corporation founder and longtime CEO Ken Olsen died this week at 84. I never met Ken Olsen, but I have a sense of him through his products. The first computer I ever programmed was a PDP-1 accessed over an old TTY terminal from my junior high school. At one point in the 1980s
- [Arianna Huffington, queen of all media](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/07/arianna-huffington-queen-of-all-media/) - I have only met Arianna Huffington once. I remember it vividly but my guess is she doesn’t remember it much at all, which says volumes about both of us. The scene was surreal. Huffington and I were in Larry Flynt’s office in Los Angeles, participating in an experimental online talk show Larry was trying to
- [Metternich and Mubarak](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/02/metternich-and-mubarak/) - There is supposed to be something of an Internet revolution going on right now in Egypt, but have you noticed that the Internet isn’t directly involved? Oh there’s plenty of Twittering going-on, but it is all about the demonstrations and civil unrest in Cairo -- not from those crowds. The Internet was turned off, you
- [Only an idiot would use Network Solutions e-mail. I am an idiot.](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/30/only-an-idiot-would-use-network-solutions-e-mail-i-am-an-idiot/) - I ran my own mail server for many years until the end of 1999 when we moved out to the Wine Country boonies where the only broadband service back then was by satellite. I couldn’t run my own server but still wanted a cringely.com address so I fell back on what seemed to be the
- [Getting my GroupOn](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/28/getting-my-groupon/) - My last column was about Eric Schmidt losing his CEO job at Google and how that company’s failed bid for GroupOn may have been a factor in Schmidt’s demise. Weep not for Eric, who lasted in the CEO position for 10 years and earned $5.6 billion, which puts every other U.S. CEO to shame, even
- [Bring me the head of Eric Schmidt!](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/20/bring-me-the-head-of-eric-schmidt/) - No, Eric Schmidt didn’t step down from being CEO of Google to take Steve Jobs’s position at Apple. I’m fairly certain Schmidt was demoted. Or if he wasn’t, then he should have been. From a strict business perspective I suppose it’s ridiculous to criticize Schmidt’s performance at Google, but that won’t stop me. The guy
- [No white smoke yet in Cupertino](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/18/no-white-smoke-yet-in-cupertino/) - At the Vatican, white smoke coming from a chimney at the Sistine Chapel indicates that a new Pope has been selected by the College of Cardinals. Well despite yesterday’s news of Steve Jobs's departure again from Apple for medical reasons there is as yet no sign of white smoke in Cupertino where Jobs remains firmly
- [Strangers in our midst](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/16/strangers-in-our-midst/) - Last week’s murder of six and wounding of 14 in a Safeway parking lot in Tucson has led to a lot of discussion in both the blogoshere and the traditional press. Did heated political rhetoric in the media fuel the confrontation? Why didn’t the clearly erratic behavior of the alleged gunman tip-off authorities? I can
- [Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Watson](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/13/dr-jekyll-mr-watson/) - Next month an IBM computer called Watson will go head-to-head against the top two human Jeopardy champs for a prize worth $1 million. Whether Watson wins or not, what I wonder about this contest that was four years and untold millions of dollars in the making is how it squares with the image I’ve presented
- [Fool me once, shame on you...](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/12/fool-me-once-shame-on-you/) - Apple has a long history of milking early adopters. Even the crappy products (remember the Newton? the Mac Cube?) would sell a few hundred thousand units to the faithful before those faithful learned the sad truth. But just as they were learning that truth, along would come Steve Jobs (okay, not in the case of
- [Verizon's iPhone story isn't so black and white](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/11/verizons-iphone-story-isnt-so-black-and-white/) - Verizon announced its iPhone 4 today, as expected, but it was CDMA, not LTE, and it wasn’t white, which would seem to defy one of my 2011 predictions made only last week -- that Verizon would get an exclusive on white iPhones. Rather than capitulate, though, I’ll tell a story about the invention of the
- [3Dud TV](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/10/3dud-tv/) - All the top movies are appearing in 3D versions and the Consumer Electronics Show last week was full of new 3D TV’s. Why isn’t anybody buying them? We already bought our big-screen TV’s, thanks. Suddenly 3D content is everywhere. Movie studios are using it more than ever and consumer electronics companies are even subsidizing 3D
- [2011 prediction #10: Apple buys Time Warner Cable](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/06/2011-prediction-10-apple-buys-time-warner-cable/) - My last prediction laid out a pretty aggressive 2011 computing strategy for Apple. But it is just that -- a computing strategy -- not a media strategy, and Steve Jobs is clearly the most important media mogul on the planet right now, and maybe the most fragile. This latter point is important, because Steve sees
- [2011 prediction #9: Apple's Carolina strategy ](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/06/2011-prediction-9-apples-carolina-strategy-part-one/) - If you put together my 2011 predictions so far they create a world view of tech culture and business as I see it for the coming year. Each prediction builds on the others until we get to these last two, which present a couple boffo conclusions, the big question being "What does Apple need with
- [2011 prediction #8: Cloudburst](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/06/2011-prediction-8-cloudburst/) - If 2010 was the year of cloud computing that means 2011 is the year we'll actually start using it in earnest. That further means 2011 will be the year that cloud computing lets us down. Everything in IT fails eventually, though the big myth is that won't happen with cloud computing. Hogwash. We haven't seen
- [2011 prediction #7: Microsoft is the new IBM](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/06/2011-prediction-7-microsoft-is-the-new-ibm/) - Microsoft isn’t going away, but they aren’t going to do a lot of things right in 2011, either. The company’s leadership is stuck, complacent, and just a bit thick. We’ve seen a lot of flux in the executive ranks reporting to CEO Steve Ballmer and I think that’s mainly because Ballmer won’t get out of
- [2011 prediction #6: Yahoo barfs](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/05/2011-prediction-6-yahoo-barfs/) - This is a sad one. Venerable Yahoo, the original web portal, is in such trouble that it doesn't know what to do. So Yahoo will this year begin tearing itself apart. This will be presented as a semblance of a strategy but I doubt that's true. More likely it will be the company attempting to
- [2011 prediction #5: Facebook forks](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/04/2011-prediction-5-facebook-forks/) - Separated at birth? Facebook now claims more than 500 million members. Facebook is too big. Already we’re seeing Facebook defections by, well, me. And others, there are other people than me who are put-off by the simple fact that this social network is becoming as ubiquitous as bad breath in dogs. LinkedIn, at only 80
- [2011 prediction #4: Bufferbloat may be terrible, but your cable ISP won't fix it](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/04/2011-prediction-4-bufferbloat-may-be-terrible-but-your-cable-isp-wont-fix-it/) - He won't help you As explained ad nauseam in prediction #1, bufferbloat is going to be a growing problem this year as Windows XP machines are replaced and more people are downloading Internet video. But terrible latency, jitter, and dropouts may not be all bad if you are a cable ISP. That’s because cable ISPs
- [2011 prediction #3: 1.8-inch and 3.5-inch disk drives will die](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/04/2011-prediction-3-1-8-inch-and-3-5-inch-disk-drives-will-die/) - This year will see the end of the iPod Classic and with it the 1.8-inch disk drive, 90 percent of which are sold by Toshiba. This is a testament to the rise of flash memory and Solid State Disk (SSD) drives, but that’s not the only cause or the only result, because I predict that
- [2011 Prediction #2: The white iPhone IS the Verizon iPhone](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/04/2011-prediction-2-the-white-iphone-is-the-verizon-iphone/) - No other explanation makes any sense. Certainly there is no supply problem that could keep Apple from introducing a white iPhone. But what if white is a Verizon exclusive in the USA? That would to a certain extent pull the branding rug out from under AT&T and even put a bit more oomph behind those
- [2011 predictions: One word -- bufferbloat. Or is that two words?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/04/2011-predictions-one-word-bufferbloat-or-is-that-two-words/) - As promised, here are my technology predictions for 2011. These columns usually begin with a review of my predictions from the previous year because it annoys me that writers make predictions without consequences. If we are going to claim expertise then our feet should be held to the fire. But last January I didn’t write
- [And Then Along Comes Larry....](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/29/and-then-along-comes-larry/) - There’s a premise in big business that no single person is essential to the success of an organization. If I die on the job, microscopic cringely.com dies with me, sure, but if Steve Ballmer kicks-off during a sales meeting tirade, Microsoft will move smoothly onward, or so the idea goes -- as far as it
- [You Can't Go Home Again](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/29/you-cant-go-home-again/) - I have worked from home since the first time InfoWorld fired me in 1994. When you work at home you live at work, which is precisely why telecommuting has been so embraced by non-smokestack industries that love the low office rents and longer working hours. But the tide may be turning against working at home
- [The Trojan App](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/21/the-trojan-app/) - FCC chairman weighs-in on width versus length debate It wasn’t so many years ago, remember, when AT&T (the old AT&T, the U. S. national telephone monopoly) owned the phone wire in your walls. You put the wire there, or your builder did, and you certainly paid for it, but once dial tone filled the lines
- [How To Plug a Leak: Don't](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/20/how-to-plug-a-leak-dont/) - If the United States is so upset with Julian Assange and Wikileaks for continuing to expose its stash of 200,000+ purloined U. S. diplomatic cables, why aren’t they trying to extradite the guy to face trial in the U. S.? I can think of at least four reasons. First there’s the problem of actually convicting
- [It's All Downhill from Here](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/19/its-all-downhill-from-here/) - Google Labs has this new lexical research tool you may have read about called a Book Ngram Viewer, which allows you to peek inside five million books published between the 15th century and 2008 to see how many discussed antigravity and when: Semiconductors: Michael Jackson: And good old-fashioned fornicating: But most important of all, since
- [Ich Hasse Hausaufgaben (I Hate Homework)](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/14/ich-hasse-hausaufgaben-i-hate-homework/) - My son Channing, the grinning eight year-old to the left, has too much homework. He attends one of the best schools in the state and they send him home every night with what the teachers say is one hour of homework but it looks like two hours to me. And since Channing would really rather
- [Predicting the Future](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/14/predicting-the-future/) - Readers have been writing to me lately about my annual predictions column, a vestige of my days at PBS. While I'm reluctant to do it, that annual exercise is apparently very popular. And the quality of reader comments lately suggests we could get quite a good discussion going. So I'm going to do it. But,
- [Gilmore is Gone](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/10/gilmore-is-gone/)
- [Cyber Rumble](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/09/cyber-rumble/) - There’s a global electronic battle going on, we’re told, between those who support Wikileaks and those who oppose it. Mastercard, PayPal, and Visa are under attack for refusing to process contributions to Wikileaks, their web sites periodically unavailable because of a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack by thousands of zombie PCs all over
- [Dog Days](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/07/dog-days/) - My good friend Ralph called this morning. “You are writing more than usual and responding more to comments, what’s wrong?” he asked. Ralph knows me too well. Gilmore the dog is sick. Nine year-old Gilmore, whom some of you may recall from a column years ago about taking him (telepathically, no less) to the pet
- [Edifice Complex](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/06/edifice-complex/) - Apple bought a huge piece of Bay Area property for a new corporate campus, promising to develop the land into an enormous project that would allow thousands of company employees to live, work, shop and play without ever having to leave company property. It would be the perfect community for staffers who are allowed to
- [Verizon LTE iPhone4V](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/06/verizon-lte-iphone4v/) - No insider info here, no leaked secrets, just an aging but wily geek putting himself in the place of Verizon Wireless and guessing how that mobile carrier will handle next year’s rumored iPhone introduction on its U. S. network. I’d go for a knockout punch and I think Verizon will, too. Apple’s iPhone is coming
- [Follow the Money](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/03/follow-the-money/) - There’s a dispute going on right now between Comcast and Level3 Communications concerning the peering agreement between those two companies. Comcast says the dispute has nothing to do with the fact that Level3 just got the Netflix video streaming contract while most observers think that's all it has to do with. I think so, too.
- [3D and Me](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/02/3d-and-me/) - Is watching 3D movies good for your eyes or bad? I think it might be good, at least it seems to be for me. Last weekend we took the kids to see Megamind 3D, which was great fun except four year-old Fallon and I both sacked-out for about 15 minutes during the second act, completely
- [Wikileaked](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/01/wikileaked/) - I spent eight years at InfoWorld working as a gossip columnist and know a thing or two about news leaks. So here is the gossip columnist’s view of this week’s huge Wikileaks story about U. S. diplomatic cables. It comes down, frankly, to a squandered opportunity. Wikileaks is a garbage dump for embarrassing information. When
- [The Decline and Fall of E-Mail](https://www.cringely.com/2010/11/27/the-decline-and-fall-of-e-mail/) - I have in my computer every e-mail message I have sent or received since 1992. Minus the obvious spam, this database comes to about half a million messages from people as varied (or similar, if you think about it) as Larry Ellison and Larry Flynt. But lately my e-mail seems to be dying. Yours is,
- [Rhythm and Noise](https://www.cringely.com/2010/11/17/rhythm-and-noise/) - So Exchange Traded Index funds and the $1.2 trillion invested in them have increased volatility for small cap stocks making the whole IPO process less attractive for many founders of U. S. tech companies -- our kind of companies. It’s not the end of the world but has been a downer of sorts for both
- [No Life Insurance for Bull Riders](https://www.cringely.com/2010/11/11/no-life-insurance-for-bull-riders/) - I write a lot about technologies, companies and industries, some about economics, but hardly ever about stocks or trading, so this column is an unusual one. But because of the hard work of a couple economist friends of mine I’m finally coming to understand a stock market phenomenon that has been hurting tech startups for
- [Any Port in a Storm](https://www.cringely.com/2010/11/07/any-port-in-a-storm/) - Nearly every day I hear from at least one person who thinks I am an idiot. Typically they are complaining about something I wrote months or even years before, so I often confirm my idiocy by not even remembering what has them so upset. This week, however, I was contacted by an upset reader who
- [Act Two: The Cringely Startup Tour Gets Back on the Road](https://www.cringely.com/2010/11/02/act-two-the-cringely-startup-tour-gets-back-on-the-road/) - Rested, rejuvenated, and -- most important of all -- replenished with good ideas, the Startup Tour is getting back on the road, revisiting the companies we saw last summer. That first visit set a baseline, introducing the startup companies, but this trip is our chance to help. Just like they did on the old Newlywed
- [The Chinese Decade](https://www.cringely.com/2010/10/31/the-chinese-decade/) - Something has been bothering me lately and it is our assumption that China is the world’s next superpower and that we’d darned well better get used to it. Hogwash. We’re into the Chinese decade, not the Chinese Century. The century belongs to India. Last century was all-American. We came into the 20th century a huge
- [License to Print Money](https://www.cringely.com/2010/10/26/license-to-print-money/) - Photovoltaic solar cells have been part of renewable energy planning for as long as such planning has existed, with most of those solar cells made from crystalline silicon with energy conversion efficiencies above 20 percent. But crystalline cells are expensive and take a lot of energy to create, reducing their net energy contribution. Fortunately there
- [Energy Past, Energy Future](https://www.cringely.com/2010/10/25/energy-past-energy-future/) - Historic Price of Oil in 2008 Dollars I used to write about the oil business. It was a diversion from high tech I took for a couple years in the early 1980s. I worked in Saudi Arabia, attended OPEC meetings in Geneva and Vienna, and hung with a variety of characters from the era of
- [AOL+Yahoo is a Jealousy Game](https://www.cringely.com/2010/10/15/aolyahoo-is-a-jealousy-game/) - If you think AOL actually intends to buy Yahoo, you are wrong. That story hit the press this week but it’s a ruse to motivate Google exactly as I explained a few days ago. AOL has neither the money nor the motivation to buy Yahoo, which is analogous to a bus company buying a poorly-managed
- [Show Me the Money](https://www.cringely.com/2010/10/12/show-me-the-money/) - I want to make a small point here about this week’s Windows Phone 7 launch from Microsoft. Now you can take this with a grain of salt given that I was an iPhone user until I switched this summer to Blackberry for my Startup Tour. So I am not exactly unbiased. But is it just
- [Spies Like Us](https://www.cringely.com/2010/10/07/spies-like-us/) - Last week the Obama Administration announced that it would be shortly submitting legislation intended to force providers of all kinds of digital communication services (mail, voice, chat, Twitter, etc.) to install back doors in their services to allow government monitoring of all encrypted digital communication. No explicit details were given of how this is going
- [Crunch Time at AOL](https://www.cringely.com/2010/10/02/crunch-time-at-aol/) - TechCrunch, a company made up of tech blogs somewhat like this one as well as classified advertising and some events, announced its sale last week to the new-old AOL for a price widely, broadly, and deeply rumored to be $30 million. Nobody will officially confirm this price but I have no reason to believe $30
- [Google's Pound of Flesh](https://www.cringely.com/2010/09/27/googles-pound-of-flesh/) - We all know Google’s corporate philosophy is “don’t be evil, ” but what does that really mean? Is it okay, for example, to be just a little evil, rather than bad to the bone? Or is it okay to enable evil in others? The latter case certainly represents the minimum coefficient of evil I see
- [Motivating Miss Daisy](https://www.cringely.com/2010/09/16/motivating-miss-daisy/) - Driving around America for nine weeks and more than 10,000 miles, I’ve had a chance to see how our economy does and doesn’t work. The startups I visited were all good companies -- reader favorites, after all -- so they tended to shine. And their glow was generally green and even a bit altruistic, yet
- [Enemy Mine](https://www.cringely.com/2010/09/16/enemy-mine/) - Shortly after our Startup Tour began this summer, Heath Ledger died. No, not Heath Ledger the actor, who died a couple years ago of an accidental drug overdose -- Heath Ledger, my four year-old Garmin NUVI GPS who spoke with an Australian accent. My Heath had been going quietly insane for some time. This is
- [How Much is Enough?](https://www.cringely.com/2010/09/12/how-much-is-enough/) - So the phone rings at a big publishing company in New York. “How long is a book? ” asks the caller. “Well it varies from book to book and genre to genre,” explained the publishing company receptionist. “This is a novel. How long is a novel?” the caller asked. “That varies, too, but many of
- [Where's the Beef?](https://www.cringely.com/2010/09/04/wheres-the-beef/) - The Cringely (Not in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour is less than two weeks from being over yet where is all the video? It’s coming, I promise. We have so far visited companies in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, and are now in
- [It's a Sony](https://www.cringely.com/2010/08/31/its-a-sony/) - The machine pictured here is a Sony XDCAM EX, a 1080p tapeless HD camcorder. It is a so-called “prosumer” model that lists for $7800. I bought a pair of these cameras (new in the box) at the beginning of July to use for shooting this summer’s Startup Tour. Many video professionals think these are the
- [Trolling for Dollars](https://www.cringely.com/2010/08/31/trolling-for-dollars/) - Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen filed suit this week against a litany of Internet companies claiming they had violated patents awarded years ago to Allen’s now-defunct Interval Research. Many writers, including one passing himself off as me, claimed this made Allen a so-called “patent troll. ” I don’t think that is the case. Patent trolls are
- [When IT Fails](https://www.cringely.com/2010/08/30/when-it-fails/) - A friend of mine has been in an epic struggle with his mortgage processor and his experience tells us a lot about the state of IT. It started in October of last year when my friend met with his loan processor (Bank of America) to inquire about a loan modification. The loan is actually owned
- [Little Geeks on the Prairie](https://www.cringely.com/2010/08/24/little-geeks-on-the-prairie/) - A maverick is an un-branded range cow or steer. It is also the name used for sports teams at Minnesota State University -- Mankato. That’s where the Cringely Startup Tour stopped recently to visit Maverick Software Consulting and find out where’s the beef. This Maverick (the consulting company) has come up with an amazing business
- [Too Big to Fail](https://www.cringely.com/2010/08/12/too-big-to-fail/) - I wrote a few days ago about the Intel anti-trust settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. Those words stand unchanged but some readers have asked for more so I have given the deal further thought and have what might be a better context in which to place it -- Too Big to Fail. This isn’t
- [Stupid CEO Tricks](https://www.cringely.com/2010/08/07/stupid-ceo-tricks/) - Vacancy at Hewlett-Packard I’m sorry to have been so out of touch lately. The Startup Tour continues, of course, but this week I also have an Op-Ed article appearing in Sunday’s New York Times that I had to write. It is about Google and Verizon and may give a new perspective on recent events between
- [When Men Were Boys and Boys Were Stupid](https://www.cringely.com/2010/08/01/when-men-were-boys-and-boys-were-stupid/) - An occasional reader of this column, whose son works at Intel and is also a reader, got an e-mail from his kid while on vacation the other morning saying, “Cringely is in Boulder so keep an eye out for him.” At that moment we were both in a campground and I was sleeping 30 feet
- [Dragging Our Asses to Boulder](https://www.cringely.com/2010/07/28/dragging-our-asses-to-boulder/) - Update -- Those who want to meet the Cringelys can come to Graphic.ly, an electronic Comic Book startup, at 1601 Pearl Street, Suite 200, Boulder, CO. This is at 4PM on Saturday. If you can. please bring a small unwrapped toy for my kids to distribute at local hospitals and shelters. And yes, I DID
- [When Cookies Fail...](https://www.cringely.com/2010/07/28/when-cookies-fail/) - Anarchist Leader, Age 4 As we cross America on our Startup Tour there are any number of assumptions I’ve made about both new companies and child behavior that are being challenged. My kids are clearly anarchists and determined to topple me from power for one. As for the companies, I’m amazed over and over again
- [Meet Us in Kansas City](https://www.cringely.com/2010/07/23/meet-us-in-kansas-city/) - We’re well into our Startup Tour, visiting young companies so far in New York, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, and Missouri. Today we head to Kansas City and the Kauffman Foundation, one of our sponsors. That I’ve been slow to post the promised tour videos or write about these companies comes down to air conditioning failure,
- [Missing in Action](https://www.cringely.com/2010/07/16/missing-in-action/) - Readers are reporting they can no longer buy an iPhone 4. Supplies are sold-out, but even more telling the Apple stores can't even predict when they'll have product to sell. This strongly suggests Apple has halted production and is going for a hardware fix. Not surprisingly, this unavailability hasn't been noted yet in the press
- [Slouching Toward Sunnyvale](https://www.cringely.com/2010/07/14/slouching-toward-sunnyvale/) - It's been a while since I've written about Cringely's (NOT in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour, but that's not because we weren't working hard on the project. In fact the effort of cutting 400+ companies down to 24, then setting-up a tour to visit them all, has been far harder than lazy-old-me ever expected it to
- [So Steve Jobs walks into a bar.....](https://www.cringely.com/2010/07/06/so-steve-jobs-walks-into-a-bar/) - Dave Miller, a very smart electrical engineer from New Zealand who is lucky enough to spend his days doing private research on gravity, has a theory about how Apple is handling the antenna problems on its iPhone 4 that have been getting so much attention in the blogosphere and even in the general press. You
- [Apple Goes Semi-Pro (Part Two)](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/28/apple-goes-semi-pro-part-two/) - Last time we looked at Apple’s conversion from a computer company to a phone company that also makes computers. We considered why Apple doesn’t give a damn about enterprise sales, which explains their embrace of third-party enterprise components like Microsoft’s Exchange Server. Now we’ll look closer still at what plans -- if any -- Apple
- [Apple Goes Semi-Pro (Part One)](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/23/apple-goes-semi-pro-part-one/) - In January, 2007, just days before announcing the iPhone, Apple Computer dropped the word “computer” from its name. Pundits noted the passage though it didn’t seem like much at the time. But we were wrong. Apple had consciously and very deliberately entered a whole new era without our even noticing. It was a change toward
- [Doing the Right Thing](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/17/doing-the-right-thing/) - Accidents happen to the best of companies. It is how those companies respond to big industrial accidents -- how they learn and change as a result of those lessons -- that shows the quality of an organization. One of the many readers to comment to me this week on BP’s situation in the Gulf of
- [I'm with stupid](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/16/im-with-stupid/) - Readers reacted strongly to yesterday’s column about how to use Google AdWords/AdSense to punish BP through its web advertising effort aimed at influencing public opinion. Rather than respond through the comments I think this subject warrants a column of its own because I’d rather address the AdWords/AdSense click fraud aspect of the subject and leave
- [BP AdWords cashectomy](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/15/bp-adwords-cashectomy/) - Financier George Soros became famous for breaking the Bank of England. You can do the same thing right now to BP and help clean oil-covered birds in the process. Soros’s gambit took place on September 16, 1992. At that time there was a huge spread between British and German interest rates which ought to have
- [Imperial Oil](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/11/imperial-oil/) - BP -- the company accepting responsiblity for the current environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico began as Imperial Oil, became Anglo-Persian Oil with its discovery of vast reserves in present-day Iran, then Anglo-Iranian, then British Petroleum, and now just BP -- a huge multinational company that includes two of John D. Rockefeller’s original Standard
- [A Different Kind of Love Story](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/10/a-different-kind-of-love-story/) - One of these men is Cole Cringely Tomorrow’s column will be all about BP, the Gulf oil spill, and doom-and-gloom, but today we’re getting ready for the Startup Tour, which begins a week from Monday. In addition to choosing the 24 companies to visit, these days see me still seeking a single corporate sponsor for
- [Paper Chase](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/05/paper-chase/) - These are the first 100 questionnaires from the Cringely (NOT in silicon Valley) Startup Tour. Yes, I printed them out and stapled them together. Sometimes a man just has to do such things, even in the Internet Age. It helps me to get a visceral sense of an editing job that lies ahead. Throwing piles
- [Semi-Smart](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/04/semi-smart/) - Next week Apple is expected to announce a nifty new iPhone with true videophone support, so AT&T -- for now Apple’s sole iPhone network provider in the USA -- has preemptively imposed new smartphone data plans with a lower base price but also what appear to be restrictive caps on the total amount of data
- [Carried Away](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/30/carried-away/) - The last decade hasn’t been a very good one for venture capitalists, showing poor returns for their investors. There are many reasons for this including over-expansion, poor management, and a dearth of companies going public. Now to make matters worse Congress is trying to take away the VC’s traditional greatest single source of income, called
- [Death by Foxconn](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/27/death-by-foxconn/) - I want to make a point here, but I need to make it carefully, gently, so as not to rile people up. I’m not here to start a fight, folks, but it seems to me not nearly as many workers are throwing themselves off the roof of that Foxconn factory in China as I would
- [Let's Get Small](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/26/lets-get-small/) - “The step after ubiquity is invisibility,” my old friend from Apple Al Mandel explained to me years ago. And it's true. Telephone service was once rare but is now universal and anything truly universal eventually become a commodity. No wonder phone companies no longer make money from long-distance calling nor -- as Verizon’s sale of
- [LifeBlocked](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/24/lifeblocked/) - Internet-y as the next blogger, I’d like to point out how wired.com noticed that the Phoenix New Times figured out that LifeLock CEO Todd Davis (you know, Mr. 457-55-5462) who dares criminals to steal his identity has, in fact had his identity stolen at least 13 times. But in a repudiation of the Internet tendency
- [The Gate is Closed](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/14/the-gate-is-closed/) - Update -- Startup questionnaires go out this evening (Monday, May 17th). If you don't receive one and think that you should have, please contact ma@cringely.com or courtney@cringely.com to that effect. The list of MIA nominees below is current as of Monday afternoon. -- Bob Nominations for the Cringely (NOT in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour are
- [Question Time](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/11/question-time/) - Miss Courtney and her assistant, Cole We have less than a week to go for nominations to the Cringely (Not in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour. Mrs. Cringely (Mary Alyce) and Miss Courtney are contacting all 400 companies so we can distribute our festive company questionnaire to the right person. This is a harder task than
- [Book 'em, Steve-O](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/06/book-em-steve-o/) - It’s time for me to weigh-in again on the beef between Apple and Adobe over Flash versus HTML5. Why is this such a big deal that it seems to be verging on a blood feud? What turned these two companies so ruthlessly against each other that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is writing anti-Flash essays on
- [Dry Powder](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/03/dry-powder/) - There are approximately two weeks to go for nominations to the Cringely (NOT in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour. With just under 400 companies nominated so far, both in the open and in stealth mode, my goal for the next two weeks is to break 400, making it that much harder to decide on a final
- [Stevie Hawking and Me](https://www.cringely.com/2010/04/29/stevie-hawking-and-me/) - Everything I know about Stephen Hawking I learned one evening a couple years ago at the old Claremont Hotel on the border between Oakland and Berkeley, California. I was there to give a speech and was late for the gig, so instead of waiting for an elevator I took the stairs down a couple floors
- [So a Guy Walks into a Bar.....](https://www.cringely.com/2010/04/21/so-a-guy-walks-into-a-bar/) - What are the odds that this week’s story about the next-gen iPhone “found” in a Bay Area bar came about by accident? A quick survey of former and current Apple employees (okay, it was only four of them) came out 100 percent on the side of this being no accident but a deliberate plant on
- [Get a Life](https://www.cringely.com/2010/04/14/get-a-life/) - Update -- Apparently I wasn't clear enough below for some readers. Her is the deal: I have so far about 340 candidate companies for 24 positions in my upcoming reality TV series. That means I have to reject 93 percent of all nominated companies. Chances are that your startup will not be selected. So I
- [Why Twitter is Worth More Than Facebook (At Least to Me)](https://www.cringely.com/2010/04/12/why-twitter-is-worth-more-than-facebook-at-least-to-me/) - This column was finished before I realized that this week is Twitter’s Chirp developer conference in San Francisco where Twitter will supposedly (and finally) explain how it intends to make money. As you can see below I have my own ideas on this. Let’s compare my ideas with Twitter's later in the week and see
- [Turn Your Head and Cough: The Startup Tour Questionnaire is Coming!](https://www.cringely.com/2010/04/08/turn-your-head-and-cough-the-startup-tour-questionnaire-is-coming/) - We’re halfway through the selection process for the Cringely (NOT in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour with more than 300 companies nominated including half a dozen still in stealth mode. I love to sign NDAs and welcome more stealth mode nominations because they tend to be interesting companies that are fresher. With a major PR push
- [The Last Ed Roberts Story](https://www.cringely.com/2010/04/06/the-last-ed-roberts-story/) - Thinking about Ed Roberts, who died last week, reminded me of the best story he ever told me about Bill Gates and Paul Allen, explaining why Gates was always richer than Allen and why that differential may not have been fair. Here’s the short version: There was a time when Paul Allen, not Bill Gates,
- [Terminal Man](https://www.cringely.com/2010/04/03/terminal-man/) - Ed Roberts died yesterday in Georgia. He was the founder of MiTS, the designer of the Altair 8800 and as close to being the father of the American personal computer as anyone can get. I say the American personal computer because French readers constantly correct me on this. Where, again, are all those French computer
- [Why Your Favorite App Isn't Yet Available on the iPad](https://www.cringely.com/2010/04/02/why-your-favorite-app-isnt-yet-available-on-the-ipad/) - It's iPad Day and the fanboys and girls are out with their credit cards buying the non-3G, non-GPS early model iPads that go on sale Saturday
- [A Tale of Two H1-Bs](https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/31/a-tale-of-two-h1-bs/) - A friend for many years who happens to be chief financial officer for a Silicon Valley startup has this story to tell about his immigration problems at work: This is the immigration battle that I fight day-in and day-out. How do we attract the best and brightest to our shores (H1-B visas) so the jobs
- [Collaborize, Rinse, Repeat](https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/23/collaborize-rinse-repeat/) - I’d been putting-off going to startups.cringely.com to finally read all 286 entries so far in this summer’s Cringely (NOT in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour. But when I finally went to the site, I couldn’t get in. The page timed-out. This was not good. Or maybe it was very good in that the site was so
- [Is There a Google News Blacklist?](https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/16/is-there-a-google-news-blacklist/) - My relationship with Google News has always run hot and cold. No make that cold and tepid. From the very beginning of Google News as an experiment back in 2001, they refused to index my work, which they said was my fault, not theirs (“they” being an algorithm attached to an e-mail box, of course).
- [What He Said: Cisco Steps Up Its Router Game](https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/15/what-he-said-cisco-steps-up-its-router-game/) - Last week Cisco Systems made a big product announcement that the networking giant said would change the Internet forever. What could it be? Well it was a big router, a really big router that would allow more bits than ever to flow over the world’s fiber backbones. And the market yawned, because bits are a
- [The 94 Percent Solution](https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/11/the-94-percent-solution/) - Newspapers are folding, magazines are fading, ad pages are down and angst is up in the serial publishing business as it struggles through a global technological transition and may not survive. But what will be our next New York Times, our new Field & Stream, our improved Playboy? That’s what the big guns of publishing
- [Some Rules of the Road: 200 Nominations in the First Week!](https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/09/some-rules-of-the-road-200-nominations-in-the-first-week/) - Just a week into nominations for the Cringely (NOT in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour we have 200 companies signed up to vie for the 24 positions. My hope to reach 600 in eight weeks, then, is very possible if I keep up the pressure and perhaps define the rules a little better. That’s what this
- [100 Startups and Growing Fast!](https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/05/100-startups-and-growing-fast/) - It has been just over a day since we opened nominations for the Cringely (NOT in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour and already there are more than 100 companies in the system, all six categories are covered, and the level of competition is very high. At this point I am confident we’ll get 500-600 companies in
- [Fire in the Hole! Another New Gig for Bob](https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/03/another-new-gig-for-bob/) - Until leaving PBS at the end of 2008 I could claim I had been fired from every job I ever held, which isn’t nearly as bad as it sounds. Leaving PBS after 11 years broke that pattern, but not for long. Now I have been fired from Home-Account, my mortgage startup. How does one found
- [The Smell of Entrepreneurism in the Morning](https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/02/the-smell-of-entrepreneurism-in-the-morning/) - Today is a great day for I, Cringely and for me. It is the day we launch the special web site for Cringely’s (NOT in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour. I wrote a column last month announcing the Tour, which you can read here, but today marks the actual start of this summer’s adventure, because it
- [No Flash in the Pad](https://www.cringely.com/2010/02/22/no-flash-in-the-pad/) - Apple has been criticizing Adobe Systems lately for what Cupertino perceives as poor performance and design deficiencies in Adobe’s Flash web media technology, which it darned well wants to keep off the iPhone and iPad. Adobe, in turn, has been defending Flash, however gently, citing it as a great enabling technology that has got the
- [Google's Walk in the PARC](https://www.cringely.com/2010/02/15/googles-walk-in-the-parc/) - No, Google doesn’t intend to become a national Internet Service Provider, despite its new plan to build a number of optical networks to serve homes and businesses at up to one gigabit-per-second. The real plan is half Xerox PARC and half Tom Sawyer. When the Computer Science Lab at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center was
- [The Cringely 2010 (Not in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour](https://www.cringely.com/2010/02/08/the-cringely-2010-not-in-silicon-valley-startup-tour/) - Small companies create jobs in America. According to a recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, companies less than five years old generated nearly two-thirds of the new jobs created in the U. S. in 2007. But what’s even more important is that without these startups more jobs would be lost than created, the
- [Authentication is Secondary](https://www.cringely.com/2010/02/04/authentication-is-secondary/) - As we’ve all read, Google recently experienced a massive attack on its network, probably from China, and has threatened to leave the Chinese market as a result. I’ve written about that aspect before (Google taking its ball and going home) but this column is about the attack itself and Google’s internal plans for how to
- [Moonset](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/31/moonset/) - Later today the Obama Administration will reportedly announce major changes in the U. S. space program that may amount to the effective end of manned space flight after this decade. As a guy who has been trying to mount his own mission to the Moon I’m not yet sure how I feel about this. Maybe
- [Apple Tablet Twit!](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/26/apple-tablet-twit/) - From a beta tester: Apple tablet is OLED + back has solar pad for recharging, but (the charger) really doesn't work quickly. More a gimmick. Verizon+att, wifi yes! Apple Tablet has thumbpads on each side for mouse gestures, reads fingerprint for security. Up to 5 profiles by fingerprint for family. Yes, there are 2cameras: one
- [The Problem With Big Media: Why One Tablet is Not Enough](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/26/the-problem-with-big-media-why-one-tablet-is-not-enough/) - Tomorrow we’ll finally see Apple’s tablet computer, whatever it is finally called. I’ll write another column then attempting to explain where I think this thing is likely to succeed or fail for Apple. But right now I don’t see much point in speculating about something we’ll know for sure within 24 hours. It’s much more
- [Mobile 2010 Predictions: Apple, Google & RIM, Oh My!](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/22/mobile-2010-predictions-apple-google-rim-oh-my/) - Near the eve of Apple’s tablet announcement, I’d like to turn my 2010 predictive eye again to the mobile space where, as my title suggests, there are only three software players that matter -- Apple, Google, and RIM (Blackberry). But wait a minute, isn’t Nokia the big Kahuna in this space and aren’t they right
- [IBM 2010: Customers in Revolt](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/14/ibm-2010-customers-in-revolt/) - For the past 2-3 years I have been a pain to IBM, correctly pointing-out a number of policies and actions by the computer giant that have shown a pattern of disrespect to employees and customers alike. I
- [Google 2010: What Makes the Muskrat Guard His Musk?](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/13/google-2010-what-makes-the-muskrat-guard-his-musk/) - More 2010 predictions, this time for Google, which is reeling right now from cyber attacks in China and customer attacks in the U. S. where the Nexus One is getting an underwhelming response from early adopters. Here’s word from a friend of mine -- a smart phone whore -- who had a Nexus One for
- [Apple 2010: More of the Same and Blu-Ray, too](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/12/apple-2010-more-of-the-same-and-blu-ray-too/) - Back to my 2010 predictions, this time mainly about Apple, the PC company that fared best in 2009 and is likely to fare best in 2010, too. Though I also wonder at what point we take Apple’s hint and stop thinking of them so much as a computer company? Over the past years Apple has
- [When Is Your Bank Not Your Bank?](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/10/when-is-your-bank-not-your-bank/) - We interrupt this 2010 predictions column to predict trouble ahead, first for mobile banking apps, second for ISPs who stupidly piss-off my readers, and finally for buyers like me of Dell Vostro A90 netbooks. I further predict we’ll return with more prediction columns within hours. First the mobile app problem. My friend Stephen Schaubach just
- [Predict Me, I'm from the Government](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/08/predict-me-im-from-the-government/) - This is my second predictions column for 2010 with more to come. This column is about homeland security, which is something our government isn’t very good at and I predict won’t get any better at this year because of a systemic inability to do correctly even the most basic things to protect our society, our
- [Microsoft 2010 SP1](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/07/microsoft-2010-sp1/) - This should be my 2010 predictions column and it is, sort of, but if you’ve noticed I’m writing shorter columns these days but posting more frequently. There’s no way I can do a comprehensive predictions column in less than 3000 words. So what I propose to do instead is to write several prediction columns today,
- [Nexus None](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/05/nexus-none/) - Dag nabbit I had hoped to get away without having to write a predictions column this year, but no such luck. Look for that one tomorrow. Tonight, of course, there’s Google’s Nexus One smart phone to write about. Is it an iPhone killer? Hardly. And that’s not even the point. Google’s Nexus One is a
- [Remembering Y2K](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/31/remembering-y2k/) - Tonight marks the 10th anniversary of Y2K, so I’m using it as an excuse to look back at lessons learned and not learned from that experience. The greatest lessons had to do with psychology, not technology. Y2K was no surprise to me. I wrote a chapter on it in my book Accidental Empires back in
- [Fallon's Getting a Dell!](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/30/fallons-getting-a-dell/) - There were already two computers in our kitchen but that wasn’t enough for Fallon, age three, who needs his daily fix of YouTube Scooby-Doo clips. So for Christmas Fallon (who refers to himself as "the small boy”) got a Dell Vostro A90 netbook running Ubuntu Linux. That’s the business version of a Dell Mini9 with
- [New Cringely Posts on AOL](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/30/new-cringely-posts-on-aol/) - If you care about real estate, politics, or economics, you might find interesting this pair of posts I made this week on AOL's Housingwatch blog: https://www.housingwatch.com/2009/12/28/fannie-and-freddie-more-than-politics-as-usual/ https://www.housingwatch.com/2009/12/30/fannie-freddie-ii-the-wrath-of-obama/
- [The Next White Whale](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/29/the-next-white-whale/) - A week from now I’ll announce in this space an important project involving technology startup companies, which I feel are key to continued economic prosperity for the United States. This will be my major project for 2010 with the Moon shot following in 2011. But first I want to conduct a little experiment involving venture
- [New Improved MS Word 2007!](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/22/new-improved-microsoft-word-2007/) - Now that Microsoft has lost its appeal (ain't that the truth) and has to pay $290 million to Canadian company i4i and take the docx file format out of Word 2007, is it just me or doesn't that sound like an improvement to the product? The whole point of docx didn't seem to be to
- [DVD Is Dead](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/22/dvd-is-dead/) - The DVD may have died this week. Walmart is now selling Blu-Ray high-definition optical disk players for $68 in the U. S. Sure, plain old DVD players are cheaper still, but why would you buy one? Blu-Ray players can be used with your old DVD collection just fine and will line-double and up-shift your old
- [The Day AT&T Learned Moore's Law (it's not when you think it was)](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/16/the-day-att-learned-moores-law-its-not-when-you-think-it-was/) - Last weekend a story in the New York Times blamed the bad reputation of AT&T’s wireless network on iPhone technical problems, not the AT&T network at all. Going further, Global Wireless Solutions, a network testing company, said the AT&T network is actually faster than Verizon’s, backing to a certain extent AT&T’s now-aborted legal effort to
- [FedEx Kinkos Won't Print Our Christmas Card](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/15/fedex-kinkos-wont-print-our-christmas-card/) - Update -- Good news! Reader Scott Hall, who owns a card printing web site called Babyshere.com, offered to print our Christmas cards for less than FedEx-Kinkos would have charged. Only a few hours later my cards are now literally in the mail. Thanks, Scott! Tonight I walked into the Fedex Kinkos store on Calhoun Street
- [AOL Real Estate](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/10/aol-real-estate/) - Today I started moonlighting for AOL Real Estate where I'll be posting twice a week.
- [Intel Will Buy nVIDIA](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/08/intel-will-buy-nvidia/) - There is a funky dance going on right now between chip giants Intel and nVIDIA and I just want to cut through the crap and tell you that no matter what the companies are saying it is likely to end with nVIDIA being purchased by Intel. Both parties know it and the only thing that
- [Ask and Ye Shall Receive](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/06/ask-and-ye-shall-receive/) - Christmas is approaching and with it the end of the first fiscal quarter for many computer companies including Apple. This is the time when these companies make their biggest sales of the year. It's also the time when J.D. Power & Associates is finishing-up its PC quality surveys which cover initial quality and overall service
- [Three Simple Rules for Stealing My Money](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/01/three-simple-rules-for-stealing-my-money/) - The Mel Brooks movie, then Broadway musical, then a movie of a Broadway musical The Producers are the only such dramatic works I know of that were based primarily on a business model. The plot is a simple scam in three acts: 1) most Broadway musicals fail; 2) greedy investors in Broadway shows want a lot
- [Chrome and Chrome, What is Chrome?](https://www.cringely.com/2009/11/24/chrome-and-chrome-what-is-chrome/) - Last week Google made a preemptive strike against Microsoft, revealing details of its Chrome OS months before that product reaches its near-infinite beta release. The idea is simple: who needs a big OS if you are doing everything in a browser? It’s a huge threat to Microsoft and Apple. But then it struck me I’ve
- [Pictures in Our Heads](https://www.cringely.com/2009/11/17/pictures-in-our-heads/) - We’re in the middle of a huge platform shift in computing and most of us don’t even know it. The transition is from desktop to mobile and is as real as earlier transitions from mainframes to minicomputers to personal computers to networked computers with graphical interfaces. And like those previous transitions, this one doesn’t mean
- [Tossed in Space](https://www.cringely.com/2009/11/13/tossed-in-space/) - Just in case you are an astronaut and need something to worry about, according to NASA there are 18,000 pieces of space junk the size of a basketball or larger right now orbiting the earth. That’s 18,000 chances to slam into the International Space Station (ISS), bump into a U.S. Space Shuttle, or plow into
- [News Corp to Offer Plaid Stamps!](https://www.cringely.com/2009/11/09/news-corp-to-offer-plaid-stamps/) - Rupert Murdoch said recently that he's planning to stop Google News from indexing his publications including the Times of London and the Wall Street Journal. Murdoch's idea is that Google News and the like make it too easy for Internet users to sample news for free rather than paying for it as God and Rupert
- [Brett Versus Bob: Taking Net Neutrality Personally](https://www.cringely.com/2009/11/03/brett-versus-bob-taking-net-neutrality-personally/) - Brett Glass (on the left) runs Lariat, a small wired and wireless Internet Service Provider (ISP) on the prairie in Laramie, Wyoming. Bob Frankston (right) programmed VisiCalc, the first personal computer spreadsheet and for several years worked on home networking issues for Microsoft, somehow without having to move from his beloved Newton, Massachusetts. Two nerds,
- [What Goes Around: Teledesic 2.0](https://www.cringely.com/2009/10/29/what-goes-around-teledesic-2-0/) - For those who don’t remember it or have forgotten, Teledesic was one of a number of 1990s plans to use low-earth orbiting satellites to provide wireless Internet service almost everywhere on Earth.
- [Why Windows 7 Costs so Much](https://www.cringely.com/2009/10/26/why-windows-7-costs-so-much/) - I’ve had a couple days now with Windows 7 and it is certainly an improvement over both Vista and XP, but why does it cost so much?
- [Silence isn't Golden](https://www.cringely.com/2009/10/22/silence-isnt-golden/) - Judging from the 70+ reader comments, many from present or former IBM employees, my last column about the arrest of IBM Sr. VP Bob Moffat on insider trading charges hit a nerve.
- [No Joy in Mudville](https://www.cringely.com/2009/10/17/no-joy-in-mudville/) - I have no idea whether IBM senior vice-president Bob Moffat is guilty of insider trading or not, though that’s what he was arrested for yesterday.
- [Apple and the Future of Publishing -- Part Two](https://www.cringely.com/2009/10/12/apple-and-the-future-of-publishing-part-two/) - Last time I wrote about the business and technical context into which Apple would be bringing its long-rumored tablet computer, which many of us now believe will also be some form of e-reader. That column stimulated a lot of lively comments, thanks, but now I have to put up or shut up, giving my thoughts
- [Apple and the Future of Publishing – Part One](https://www.cringely.com/2009/10/07/apple-and-the-future-of-publishing-part-one/) - In the coming months Apple and other companies will take most of the paper out of their publishing
- [Love for Sale](https://www.cringely.com/2009/10/06/love-for-sale/) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission this week announced rules for bloggers who take money and various other forms of booty in exchange for reviewing products. Somehow I missed this business of selling one's soul. But I think it is a good idea to take a moment and be straight with my readers about the limits
- [The Cybersecurity Myth](https://www.cringely.com/2009/10/02/the-cybersecurity-myth/) - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said this week it will hire up to 1,000 cybersecurity experts over the next three years to help protect U.S. computer networks. This was part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and the announcement was made by DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, who also said they probably won't need to hire
- [All Circuits Aren't Busy](https://www.cringely.com/2009/09/25/all-circuits-arent-busy/) - Network neutrality came from the telephone business. With electronic phone switching (analog, not digital) it was possible to give phone company customers who were willing to pay more priority access to trunk lines, avoiding the dreaded “all circuits are busy, please try your call again later.” Alas, some folks almost never got a circuit, so
- [Neutrality Begins at Home](https://www.cringely.com/2009/09/21/neutrality-begins-at-home/) - This week the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) releases its proposed new rules for Internet Service Provider (ISP) network neutrality. I have written many times about Network Neutrality and once I have a look at the FCC proposal I am sure I’ll have comments to make here. In general I’m in favor of rules that
- [Logan's Run](https://www.cringely.com/2009/09/15/logans-run/) - The heyday of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was in the 1970s and 1980s. Here was the logical evolution of office and industrial automation that would put an expert into every computer and by doing so both replace and augment employees, changing forever the world of work. Only it turned out not to function that way because
- [The People's Republic of Google](https://www.cringely.com/2009/09/10/the-peoples-republic-of-google/) - I was hanging the other day with some ex-Google folks. There are more and more of these as the search company matures and the fact that I’m running across a few is, in itself, meaningless. But without giving away any trade secrets (which the ex-Googlers absolutely refused to do) these chance encounters have opened my
- [Women and Children First](https://www.cringely.com/2009/09/07/women-and-children-first/) - Today is the Labor Day holiday in the USA, so to honor the more vulnerable parts of our society and economy I'm engaging in this fantasy rethinking of our current economic crisis. If only...... When the “unsinkable” ship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in 1911, as any teenage girl will
- [Burn Baby Burn](https://www.cringely.com/2009/09/05/burn-baby-burn/) - Note there is additional new material at the end of this column -- Bob I am old -- so old that when I was a college freshman there were dormitories filled with men and others filled with women but no dormitories at all filled with both men and women, at least not where I went
- [Change of Life](https://www.cringely.com/2009/09/04/change-of-life/) - What happened to Second Life? The 3-D virtual world from Linden Lab is still very much around but I don’t spend much time there, do you? Second Life has peaked. And there is something to be learned from this transition. Facebook is hot right now and Second Life is not, and some of that comes
- [Game Boys](https://www.cringely.com/2009/09/02/game-boys/) - Sales of video game consoles and video game software are down this year as are sales of DVDs, none of which are supposed to happen in a recession. Hollywood thrived during the Great Depression, remember? And now the U.S. Centers for Disease Control drops a bomb on us that the average U.S. video game player
- [Economic Bloggers](https://www.cringely.com/2009/08/31/economic-bloggers/) - Here's a video just released by the Kauffman Foundation covering their economic bloggers conference from earlier this year. While I am one of the people in this video, I think it takes a very good look at the emerging role of economic bloggers in both the media and our culture. It's also a delight to
- [Neutron Bomb](https://www.cringely.com/2009/08/25/neutron-bomb/) - Readers have lately been asking me to write about IBM. It seems the BBC has been on the case somewhat over imposed changes to Big Blue’s UK pension scheme. These mirror similar -- though more draconian -- changes imposed on IBM’s U.S. workers a couple years ago. Alas, this just seems to be a trend
- [Is Technology Evil?](https://www.cringely.com/2009/08/17/is-technology-evil/) - This column started out being titled “Is Goldman Sachs Evil?” until I realized the issue is far more broad. It began with a blog post by my old boss Jim Casella, who now runs Asset International, a financial publisher. Jim concludes after a review of some recent and very negative press that Goldman isn’t evil,
- [Back in Orbitz](https://www.cringely.com/2009/08/07/back-in-orbitz/) - A couple weeks ago you may recall a column I wrote about how Orbitz, the Internet travel service, lost all my personal data including my on-file credit cards. Well most of this lost information is now back and I want to update the story. I’m a long-time Orbitz user with enough frequent flier miles that
- [(Mal)practice Makes Perfect](https://www.cringely.com/2009/08/05/malpractice-makes-perfect/) - I live in Charleston, South Carolina, which is a regional health care center with a local medical school and a lot of doctors, some of them my neighbors. So I hear a lot of doctors bitching about their professional lives. And that bitching generally comes down to a single argument: “I’m bringing home less money
- [Google Taketh Away](https://www.cringely.com/2009/08/05/google-taketh-away/) - This morning Google announced it was spending $106 million in stock to buy On2, a maker of audio and video compression software. The very logical question I don’t hear being asked, though, is why would Google spend money for something it is already getting pretty much for free? It’s to turn yet another partner into
- [Smith/Krugman Part 2 (of 3)](https://www.cringely.com/2009/08/01/smithkrugman-part-2-of-3/) - I'll try to finish all the clips today. Here is the second batch and I went back to Krugman/Smith05 and unlocked it, sorry. That clip is also included here in case you don't want to go back to the previous post to view it.
- [The Adam Smith & Paul Krugman Show](https://www.cringely.com/2009/07/29/the-adam-smith-paul-krugman-show/) - We'll get back to health care tomorrow, but first I have several video clips to share. Adam Smith is a best-selling author and for 14 years had a weekly show on PBS called Adam Smith's Money World that won four Emmys and a Peabody Award. He's a very smart guy. Smith was Tom Wolfe's editor
- [Medical Records R Us](https://www.cringely.com/2009/07/23/medical-records-r-us/) - This is the first of probably three columns on health care. The Obama Administration right now has in Congress legislation for reforming the U.S. health system so that sets my agenda. But the point of these columns isn’t to comment, per se, on the current proposals, but instead to look at what I believe to
- [Falling Out of Orbitz](https://www.cringely.com/2009/07/21/falling-out-of-orbitz/) - A lot of online behavior is habitual. My e-mail client is Eudora, for example -- an orphaned program that hasn’t been updated since 2006. People keep telling me to switch to this or that but I like Eudora and have 17 years of mail stored in it, though I sense an end coming there. I
- [The Waitress Who Ignored Cronkite](https://www.cringely.com/2009/07/18/the-waitress-who-ignored-cronkite/) - Thirty years ago I wrote a book about the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. One of the central characters in that book was Jon Ward, a producer for CBS News who ran the network’s coverage of the accident. Ward had actually anticipated such an event, gathering information on all U.S. nuclear plants in case
- [Who Ya Gonna Call? App Busters!](https://www.cringely.com/2009/07/17/who-ya-gonna-call-app-busters/) - After this week’s Google/Microsoft column appeared in the New York Times, I got a message from an old friend, Rohit Khare, that sparked some thinking about our vulnerability as individuals when our data is held in the cloud -- somebody else’s cloud. How do we save it, get it back, destroy it? Given the recent
- [Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me](https://www.cringely.com/2009/07/12/chrome-vs-bing-vs-you-and-me/) - A couple times per year the New York Times calls me up asking for an Op-Ed column on some technology topic. I don't know how they found me but I've been writing these pieces since 1995. I think they call because I'm good at meeting tight deadlines. Lord knows that if there was a piece
- [Google/Adobe?  No.](https://www.cringely.com/2009/07/10/googleadobe-no/) - I had intended to write a post about Google’s Chrome Operating System, but then the New York Times called looking for an Op-Ed piece on exactly that so I gave it to them. Look for the column to appear Monday and I’ll put a link to it here. The Times column is here. Beyond the
- [Freshjerky.com](https://www.cringely.com/2009/07/05/freshjerkycom/) - Headed this week to the Grand Canyon in our old Winnebago RV (now minus mice, we think) Mary Alyce, the boys and I stopped outside Kingman, Arizona at this place, freshjerky.com, managed by Gus, whom you’ll find pictured below, handsome devil that he is. And that’s Mary Alyce taking pictures of the boys in the
- [The Mouse that Roared](https://www.cringely.com/2009/06/29/the-mouse-that-roared/) - I have a mouse in my RV. Or as many correspondents have told me I have MICE in my RV, because the concept of a solitary mouse is beyond their considerable experience. This month my wife, three young sons and I (and of course the mice) are in California, mainly touring in our 1996 Winnebago.
- [Is Blu-Ray a Failure?](https://www.cringely.com/2009/06/22/is-blu-ray-a-failure/) - There was a minor flap in tech news last week when the CEO of Activision, a huge video game company, called on Sony to drop the price of its PlayStation 3 game console, suggesting that if Sony didn’t follow this advice Activision would consider withdrawing support for the game platform altogether. I hardly expect Activision
- [Teens Don't Twitter](https://www.cringely.com/2009/06/19/teens-dont-twitter/) - Rodney, an artist/poet/landscaper who also happens to be my wife’s old boyfriend, got his mobile phone bill the other day and was shocked to see that Echo, his 16 year-old daughter, had the month before sent or received more than 14,000 SMS text messages from her mobile phone. Yes, Echo has unlimited texting, but among
- [Atomic Warfare](https://www.cringely.com/2009/06/10/atomic-warfare/) - Intel last week bought for $884 million Wind River Systems, a venerable embedded operating system company -- yet another of the chip giant’s recent forays into software. The reason for this purchase is both simple and grand -- to help Intel vertically integrate and to further its Linux ambitions. Intel’s ultimate target with this purchase
- [Collateral Damage](https://www.cringely.com/2009/06/06/collateral-damage/) - There was lots of good discussion last time about cyber warfare, cyber security, and U.S. policy, but what most respondents seemed to miss was the international nature of the IT business -- all the outsourcing and offshoring that we were told was so great -- and its implications for U.S. security. The upshot is that
- [Remember Billy Mitchell](https://www.cringely.com/2009/06/01/remember-billy-mitchell/) - Billy Mitchell was an iconoclastic American military airman from the early 20th century. He was a firm believer in military air power and was ordered court-martialed in 1925 by President Calvin Coolidge for criticizing his military superiors over the issue. My kind of guy. Gary Cooper played Mitchell in a 1955 movie, by which time
- [WAAS Up?](https://www.cringely.com/2009/05/21/waas-up/) - The Government Accountability Office, a Federal watchdog agency, reported on May 7th that the Global Positioning System of satellites used for navigation and many other business and scientific purposes as well as for proving that your teenage son was actually driving down the Interstate at 100 miles-per-hour last Thursday night when he claimed to be
- [The Future of Television (part II)](https://www.cringely.com/2009/05/13/the-future-of-television-part-ii/) - My last column generated a lively debate on the prospects for various business and technical options for the delivery of Internet TV so it makes sense to continue this topic and build it into a more full-featured model. I used to write quite a bit about this back when I was trying to get NerdTV
- [The Future of Internet TV (in America)](https://www.cringely.com/2009/05/04/the-future-of-internet-tv-in-america/) - This column has a global audience so sometimes I have to defend my tendency to see things from an American perspective. But I’m not sure there even IS a defense for this particular item so I’ll just jump into it, because I think even readers from Kazahkstan and Kuwait (my two big K’s) may ultimately
- [The Sequel Dilemma](https://www.cringely.com/2009/05/01/the-sequel-dilemma/) - Not long ago I had a chance to visit the big data center at 365 Main Street in San Francisco. I was invited by friends to help them install the first servers for their startup, which is still in stealth mode. The data center was enormous, though my friends occupied only a small part of
- [Sunset](https://www.cringely.com/2009/04/24/sunset/) - So Oracle ends up owning Sun Microsystems. I couldn't believe it at first, thinking somehow that it was all just a ploy to get IBM to pull out the Big Checkbook. And while the deal may have begun with that thought glowing in the mind of Jonathan Schwartz, it ends with the heart of Sun
- [The Global Village](https://www.cringely.com/2009/04/16/the-global-village/) - This week more than 20 million people watched on YouTube and other video sharing sites a single performance from the ITV show Britain’s Got Talent in which a frumpy spinster from Scotland sang like an angel.You can see her astonishing performance here. It’s not the singing that makes me write this, though the singing was
- [Wall Street and Main Street Don’t Cross](https://www.cringely.com/2009/04/14/wall-street-and-main-street-dont-cross/) - When Barack Obama was running for President one of his favorite sound bites was that any financial bailout should not just involve Wall Street, but Main Street, too – that the government’s responsibility was to help both bankers and homeowners. But now that the election is won and Obama is in office, the two streets
- [Bob on Video!](https://www.cringely.com/2009/04/13/bob-on-video/) - I recently participated in a conference for financial bloggers at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, MO. Kauffman, if you haven't heard of it, is dedicated to the promotion of entrepreneurism and supports more economic research than any other foundation. It is a fabulous place and I really enjoyed the conference. For some reason they
- [The Sun Also Sets](https://www.cringely.com/2009/04/10/the-sun-also-sets/) - I'm not the biggest fan of Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz. Okay, I am not a fan at all. But I have to give the guy credit for keeping up company morale, because when I polled my Sun contacts recently on why they thought IBM might be interested in buying the company, each thought it
- [Geek Chic: Google’s Culture of Efficiency](https://www.cringely.com/2009/04/06/geek-chic-googles-culture-of-efficiency/) - Last week Google revealed to the world its shipping container modular data centers that I was the first to write about almost four years ago. I was invited to the event and expected to be there until the parking brake on my 34-foot Winnebago motor home let loose on a slight slope during my trip
- [Three Mile Island Memories](https://www.cringely.com/2009/03/31/three-mile-island-memories/) - This past weekend marked the 30th anniversary of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. If you are old enough you may remember where you were at that time and what it was like. I remember VERY well because I was on my way to the crippled plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Our President at the
- [Rise of the Machines](https://www.cringely.com/2009/03/25/344/) - “Where are the tumbrils?” asks my friend Adam Smith.If, like me, you have no idea what is a tumbril, it is a type of horse cart used during the French Revolution to transport condemned prisoners to the guillotine for beheading.What Adam wonders is how we can get so deep into such a hellacious financial
- [Bowling for Dollars](https://www.cringely.com/2009/03/18/bowling-for-dollars/) - I obviously hit a nerve (probably several) with my column on Parrot Secrets. Some of this was expected. The idea of making so much money from an inexpensive web site would appeal to a lot of people, I knew. And I felt good about sharing the story after sitting on it for five years for
- [Parrot Secrets](https://www.cringely.com/2009/03/14/parrot-secrets/) - Let’s face it, the economy is in trouble and so are the rest of us. Based on the dregs I find in my spam filter that makes this a hot season for folks selling plans for how to make big money on the Internet – plans that mostly aren’t worth what people pay for them.
- [The Not So Bad Bank](https://www.cringely.com/2009/03/10/the-not-so-bad-bank/) - We’re seven weeks into the Obama Administration and still looking for a way out of both the banking and housing crises. TARP didn’t seem to work, at least not as its designers intended. The new housing plan hasn’t been well received and now that more details are out you’d think there would be an
- [32 Years Down the Toilet: Neokast 2.0](https://www.cringely.com/2009/03/09/32-years-down-the-toilet-neokast-20/) - I received a large response from my most recent column on the Neokast mystery. The most interesting post was this one: Insider Joe says: March 8, 2009 at 8:23 pm (Edit) Um, the real answer to from someone who knows is much simpler and less intriguing: a) NK’s management team had no business experience in either the
- [The Neokast Mystery](https://www.cringely.com/2009/03/08/the-neokast-mystery/) - What happened to Neokast? It's a mystery to me. But I suspect the answer will surprise us all soon enough. Neokast, as readers of my old PBS column will recall, was a peer-to-peer live video streaming application developed by graduate students from Northwestern University near Chicago. That's me talking about it there on the
- [So THAT’S Why He’s So Interested in Mortgages!](https://www.cringely.com/2009/03/03/so-thats-why-hes-so-interested-in-mortgages/) - Yesterday morning in Palm Desert, CA a number of technology startup companies were shown to the public for the first time at the DEMO Conference. One of these new companies was an Internet mortgage startup called home-account.com (don’t forget the dash). Home-Account was born in my kitchen in Charleston just over a year ago –
- [And a Network Engineer Shall Lead Them](https://www.cringely.com/2009/03/02/and-a-network-engineer-shall-lead-them/) - Friday I was in Kansas City for a meeting of economics bloggers held at the Kauffman Foundation. My claim to being an economics blogger is slim, I know, but it was a chance to hang with some interesting people and learn something so I went for it. And in honor of that event, then, I’m
- [Where's Steve?](https://www.cringely.com/2009/02/21/wheres-steve/) - “The only thing worse than being talked about,” said Oscar Wilde, “is not being talked about.” That has until recently applied in spades to Steve Jobs of Apple, a guy who, when I’ve interviewed him, has always asked what other people have said about him, “especially the bad stuff.” Steve is a guy who likes
- [The Bentonville Mafia](https://www.cringely.com/2009/02/18/the-bentonville-mafia/) - As promised, here’s part three of my series on fixing Microsoft for the 21st century. This assumes we’ve already spun-off the Internet properties to Yahoo as I suggested a few days ago and a Bank of America/Merrill-Lynch analyst quickly copied. Does that copying qualify me for a Federal bailout? The big Microsoft news this week,
- [Power to the People](https://www.cringely.com/2009/02/12/power-to-the-people/) - My promised restructuring of Microsoft will conclude tomorrow but today I want to cover a news announcement from Google that I think is very important, yet that importance seems to have been missed by the mainstream and technical press alike. My subject is the Google PowerMeter, which is far more strategic than Google is letting-on.
- [Wall Street Can't Count](https://www.cringely.com/2009/02/12/wall-street-cant-count/) - This post first ran on January 29th on my mortgage blog. It got some traction there and a few mentions in the press so, lazy bastard that I am, I'm reproducing it here in a slightly improved form that corrects my own math error. Take a look at this chart that someone sent to me
- [Yahoo Should Buy Microsoft](https://www.cringely.com/2009/02/08/yahoo-should-buy-microsoft/) - My last column was all about the culture of Microsoft and how it makes real change difficult for the company. It’s not just at Microsoft that these things happen, by the way: nearly all mature organizations get into similar ruts. And if, like Microsoft, they are spectacularly profitable ruts, well then it isn’t surprising that
- [Microsoft Has PMS](https://www.cringely.com/2009/02/04/microsoft-has-pms/) - Program Manager Syndrome, that is. A few days ago I called for Microsoft to slash not 5,000 jobs but 50,000 to make the company lean and focused once more. Readers responded by asking which 50,000 Microsoft heads I’d like to see cut off? Wow, what a great question! So great, in fact, that it inspired
- [Access Denied: How to Defend Your Systems from an Inside Job](https://www.cringely.com/2009/02/02/access-denied-how-to-defend-your-systems-from-an-inside-job/) - Last week a story broke about a former Fannie Mae IT contractor accused of planting malicious code that would have taken down systems and destroyed data right at the epicenter of today’s global financial crisis. The accused former employee has since surfaced claiming innocence so I prefer not to go into that specific case but
- [Bob the Impaler](https://www.cringely.com/2009/01/22/bob-the-impaler/) - Microsoft announced this week its first-ever layoffs, which brought out the naysayers and predictors of doom, but not me. I see cutting these 5000 jobs as good, with my only caution being that it really should be 20,000 at least. Fifty thousand would be better. I am not, nor have I ever been, a big
- [Don’t Worry about Apple](https://www.cringely.com/2009/01/16/dont-worry-about-apple/) - I knew things were bad when Steve Jobs didn’t make even a token video appearance at Macworld. He would have done it, I’m sure, had he been well enough. Maybe someone at Apple, weeks before, thought of suggesting such a video, but of course to do so then would have been committing career suicide even
- [How to End the Recession](https://www.cringely.com/2009/01/10/how-to-end-the-recession/) - This is normally a column about technology and technology business but I can’t help noticing that the global economy is in the toilet and not much rational thought is going into fixing the problem. I don’t mean to insult the bozos currently pretending to run our economy or the new group of bozos about to
- [The Coming DTV Nightmare](https://www.cringely.com/2009/01/08/the-coming-dtv-nightmare/) - The future of American broadcast television is coming February 17th when U.S. stations are supposed to shut down forever their analog transmitters. After then, all broadcast TV in the United States will be digital. Too bad we aren’t ready. We’ve had more than a decade to prepare for this moment. I did the first-ever PBS
- [Cringely suffers from gray cell imbalance](https://www.cringely.com/2009/01/05/cringely-suffers-from-gray-cell-imbalance/) - What an irony if the “relatively simple and straightforward” treatment for Steve Jobs’ hormone imbalance revealed this week is for the lifelong vegetarian to eat meat. I have no way of knowing that’s his treatment, of course – the idea just sprang into my head. But given the press and stock market reaction to details
- [Don't be a Facebook whore](https://www.cringely.com/2008/12/28/dont-be-a-facebook-whore/) - Just in case you ever sue me, you should know that I have every e-mail I have ever sent or received since 1992. That’s crazy from a legal standpoint, I know, but I can’t help myself. I’m obsessive-compulsive that way. But having a clear view of 16+ years of mail amounting to more than four
- [The Missing Link](https://www.cringely.com/2008/12/26/the-missing-link/) - It’s the day after Christmas so of course sales have started and whatever you thought you bought for a good price is suddenly available for a lot less, especially electronics. But this isn’t your normal after-Christmas sale, it’s after-Christmas during one of the worst economic recessions in decades, so prices are lower still. Add to
- [                  Have a Buoyant Holiday!](https://www.cringely.com/2008/12/25/have-a-buoyant-holiday/) - Mary Alyce, Bob, Channing, Cole & Fallon Cringely
- [My Other Life](https://www.cringely.com/2008/12/19/my-other-life/) - Some people have hobbies, I have blogs. This is the mortgage blog I started quietly a few weeks before leaving PBS. It reflects my discoveries and thinking about an area that directly affects about 51 million U.S. families. What has YOUR mortgage done for you lately? Not much, eh? Take a look at the site,
- [Apple, MacWorld and Steve Jobs – the Wal-Mart Connection](https://www.cringely.com/2008/12/18/apple-macworld-and-steve-jobs-the-wal-mart-connection/) - Bentonville stands in the northwest corner of Arkansas only a few miles from Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. It is a little city in the Ozarks with a fine town square where once there stood a Ben Franklin variety store owned by Sam Walton. Today, that store on the square is a museum, and Bentonville is
- [Surviving 2009](https://www.cringely.com/2008/12/16/surviving-2009/) - Microsoft Microsoft may or may not make a deal for Yahoo's search service. What neither firm realizes yet is there is a better way to do searches with value advertising. It will be easier than what Google is doing and can produce more tangible results. Right now both firms are in the mind set of

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