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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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [The Final Frontier -- Part 2](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/07/the-final-frontier-part-2/)
- [Is Yahoo Mail Broken?](https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/15/is-yahoo-mail-broken/)
- [The Final Frontier](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/03/the-final-frontier/)
- [TV after YouTube](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/19/tv-after-youtube/)
- [Where's Bob? Changing WordPress hosts.](https://www.cringely.com/2013/06/06/wheres-bob-changing-wordpress-hosts/)
- [Which domain registrar is best?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/07/which-domain-registrar-is-best/)
- [The Steve Jobs Interview](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/21/the-steve-jobs-interview/)
- [iPad, Therefore I Am](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/28/ipad-therefore-i-am/)
- [Masters Tournament](https://www.cringely.com/2010/04/09/masters-tournament/)
- [iCloud's real purpose: kill Windows](https://www.cringely.com/2011/06/07/iclouds-real-purpose-is-to-kill-windows/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [Computer History Day -- Part 2](https://www.cringely.com/2012/03/24/computer-history-day-part-2/)
- [Computer History Day -- Part 1](https://www.cringely.com/2012/03/18/computer-history-day-part-1/)
- [How to protect your home from Leprechauns](https://www.cringely.com/2012/03/17/how-to-protect-your-home-from-leprechauns/)
- [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/)
- [Siri's big brother from Google](https://www.cringely.com/2012/03/06/siris-big-brother-from-google/)
- [Yet another way China and Google are different](https://www.cringely.com/2012/02/28/yet-another-way-china-and-google-are-different/)
- [Up in flames](https://www.cringely.com/2012/02/24/up-in-flames/)
- [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/)
- [No Joy in YouTubeville](https://www.cringely.com/2012/02/15/no-joy-in-youtubeville/)
- [Caution, train wreck in progress](https://www.cringely.com/2012/02/09/caution-train-wreck-in-progress/)
- [What the Dickens? Accidental Empires Rebooted](https://www.cringely.com/2012/02/07/what-the-dickens-accidental-empires-rebooted/)
- [Zuckerberg's Complaint](https://www.cringely.com/2012/02/06/zuckerbergs-complaint/)
- [What would Sharon do?](https://www.cringely.com/2012/02/03/what-would-sharon-do/)
- [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/)
- [Hello, Mr. Chips](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/24/hello-mr-chips/)
- [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/)
- [Siri may infringe old Excite patents](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/14/siri-may-infringe-old-excite-patents/)
- [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/)
- [Prediction 8: No more predictions](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/05/prediction-8-no-more-predictions/)
- [Prediction 7: A new Microsoft CEO](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/05/prediction-7-a-new-microsoft-ceo/)
- [Prediction 6: Thompson's no Yahoo](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/04/prediction-6-thompsons-no-yahoo/)
- [Prediction 5: No IPO for Facebook](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/04/prediction-5-no-ipo-for-facebook/)
- [Prediction #4: Motorola buys TiVO](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/03/prediction-4-motorola-buys-tivo/)
- [Prediction 3: Intel buys Qualcomm](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/02/prediction-3-intel-buys-qualcomm/)
- [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/)
- [Prediction #1: A new CEO for Apple](https://www.cringely.com/2012/01/02/prediction-1-a-new-ceo-for-apple/)
- [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/)
- [There's no time like anytime](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/29/theres-no-time-like-anytime/)
- [Like shooting ducks in a barrel](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/27/like-shooting-ducks-in-a-barrel/)
- [Why big companies can't change](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/20/why-big-companies-cant-change/)
- [For Mobile OS's, Three's a Crowd](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/20/for-mobile-oss-threes-a-crowd/)
- [The once and future WebOS](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/14/the-once-and-future-webos/)
- [Cloudy judgement at BAE Systems](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/09/cloudy-judgement-at-bae-systems/)
- [Apple looks for its checkbook](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/08/apple-looks-for-its-checkbook/)
- [Still wired after all these years](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/04/still-wired-after-all-these-years/)
- [Damage Control](https://www.cringely.com/2011/12/01/damage-control/)
- [Silence is golden](https://www.cringely.com/2011/11/24/silence-is-golden/)
- [Intel is fit to be Thai'd](https://www.cringely.com/2011/11/15/intel-is-fit-to-be-thaid/)
- [Seeking a final resolution](https://www.cringely.com/2011/11/06/seeking-a-final-resolution/)
- [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/)
- [Apple gets Siri-ous about TV](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/29/apple-gets-siri-ous-about-tv/)
- [Meg's Revenge](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/27/megs-revenge/)
- [Remembering Dennis Ritchie](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/18/remembering-dennis-ritchie/)
- [Unanswered Steve Jobs questions](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/06/unanswered-steve-jobs-questions/)
- [Steve Jobs](https://www.cringely.com/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-is-dead/)
- [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/)
- [Larry Page's Manhattan Project](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/27/larry-pages-manhattan-project/)
- [Why Brian Utley should be HP interim CEO](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/22/why-brian-utley-should-be-hp-interim-ceo/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [Net Flixup](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/21/net-flixup/)
- [Truth About Fukushima Daiichi](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/20/truth-about-fukushima-daiichi/)
- [Ballmer's Last Stand](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/19/ballmers-last-stand/)
- [What's a Yahoo to Do?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/11/whats-a-yahoo-to-do/)
- [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/)
- [How Not to Run Yahoo](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/08/how-not-to-run-yahoo/)
- [Be a Hero, Barry](https://www.cringely.com/2011/09/03/be-a-hero-barry/)
- [Mortgage Reality Distortion Field](https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/31/mortgage-reality-distortion-field/)
- [Our Own Worst Enemies](https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/31/our-own-worst-enemies/)
- [Cupertino Two-Step](https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/24/cupertino-two-step/)
- [Is the Mac Pro dead?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/23/is-the-mac-pro-dead/)
- [Losing the HP Way](https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/19/losing-the-hp-way/)
- [MotoGoogle](https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/16/motogoogle/)
- [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/)
- [The Cringely Internet Civility Plan](https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/08/the-cringely-internet-civility-plan/)
- [Apple's Money](https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/01/apples-money/)
- [Internet Class Warfare](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/30/internet-class-warfare/)
- [Bandwidth caps are rate hikes](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/28/bandwidth-caps-are-rate-hikes/)
- [Bufferbloat 2: The Need for Speed](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/25/bufflerbloat-2-the-need-for-speed/)
- [The Future of Hulu and U.S. TV](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/22/the-future-of-hulu-and-u-s-tv/)
- [The Decline and Fall of Facebook](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/20/the-decline-and-fall-of-facebook/)
- [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/)
- [Entrepreneurial OCD](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/13/entrepreneurial-ocd/)
- [All My Children a killer app?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/08/all-my-children-a-killer-app/)
- [The flip side of cyber bullying](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/07/the-flip-side-of-cyber-bullying/)
- [The enemy of my enemy](https://www.cringely.com/2011/07/01/the-enemy-of-my-enemy/)
- [CBS steals my work](https://www.cringely.com/2011/06/30/cbs-steals-my-work/)
- [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/)
- [Intercontinental Ballistic App Store](https://www.cringely.com/2011/06/22/intercontinental-ballistic-app-store/)
- [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/)
- [When Engineers Lie](https://www.cringely.com/2011/06/09/when-engineers-lie/)
- [Stupid IT Tricks: Medical Records](https://www.cringely.com/2011/06/02/stupid-it-tricks-medical-records/)
- [What Microsoft should do](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/28/what-microsoft-should-do/)
- [Steve Ballmer's Nightmare](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/25/steve-ballmers-nightmare/)
- [Charlie Ergen's War](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/23/charlie-ergens-war/)
- [Netflix too big to fail?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/19/netflix-too-big-to-fail/)
- [Google at Carson's Speed](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/19/google-at-carsons-speed/)
- [Google decides knowledge is power](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/18/google-decides-knowledge-is-power/)
- [Jann Wenner is my hero](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/13/jann-wenner-is-my-hero/)
- [Why Microsoft bought Skype](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/12/why-microsoft-bought-skype/)
- [What the heck is a Clickochet?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/10/what-the-heck-is-a-clickochet/)
- [How urban legends are born](https://www.cringely.com/2011/05/08/how-urban-legends-are-born/)
- [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/)
- [Sony may be clueless in PSN hack](https://www.cringely.com/2011/04/28/sony-may-be-clueless-in-psn-hack/)
- [Better late than never...](https://www.cringely.com/2011/04/24/better-late-than-never/)
- [Memo from the bleeding edge](https://www.cringely.com/2011/04/22/memo-from-the-bleeding-edge/)
- [Sorry, wrong number](https://www.cringely.com/2011/04/20/sorry-wrong-number/)
- [Cyberpolice Academy](https://www.cringely.com/2011/04/17/cyberpolice-academy/)
- [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/)
- [Purgatory at 37 degrees](https://www.cringely.com/2011/04/07/purgatory-at-37-degrees/)
- [The Epsilon Syndrome](https://www.cringely.com/2011/04/07/the-epsilon-syndrome/)
- [Geeks like me: What's Engadget really worth?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/04/05/geeks-like-me-whats-engadget-really-worth/)
- [I told you so](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/30/i-told-you-so/)
- [Plutonium is forever           ](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/30/plutonium-is-forever/)
- [Shoe death](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/26/shoe-death/)
- [IPV6 is coming (yeah, right)](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/26/ipv6-is-coming-yeah-right/)
- [Ivan the Terrible?](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/22/ivan-the-terrible/)
- [AT&T needs T-Mobile most for its WiFi](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/21/att-needs-t-mobile-most-for-its-wifi/)
- [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/)
- [Who ya gonna call? Supertanker!](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/16/who-ya-gonna-call-supertanker/)
- [Hollywood's impending Internet revolution](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/15/hollywoods-impending-internet-revolution/)
- [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/)
- [Flea powder may be saving lives in Japan](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/11/flea-powder-may-be-saving-lives-in-japan/)
- [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/)
- [Big Bang Theory](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/07/big-bang-theory/)
- [Fear of flying -- Why the iPad 2 isn't even better](https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/03/fear-of-flying/)
- [Just shoot me](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/28/just-shoot-me/)
- [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/)
- [Attack of the Minis](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/21/attack-of-the-minis/)
- [Major Jalloud](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/20/major-jolloud/)
- [The click of death](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/19/the-click-of-death/)
- [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/)
- [AOL Hell](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/14/aol-hell/)
- [Burning the ships at Nokia](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/14/burning-the-ships-at-nokia/)
- [Rushing the net: Nokia's coming fight to the Finnish](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/11/rushing-the-net/)
- [Ken Olsen and post-industrial computing](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/09/ken-olsen-and-post-industrial-computing/)
- [Arianna Huffington, queen of all media](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/07/arianna-huffington-queen-of-all-media/)
- [Metternich and Mubarak](https://www.cringely.com/2011/02/02/metternich-and-mubarak/)
- [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/)
- [Getting my GroupOn](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/28/getting-my-groupon/)
- [Bring me the head of Eric Schmidt!](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/20/bring-me-the-head-of-eric-schmidt/)
- [No white smoke yet in Cupertino](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/18/no-white-smoke-yet-in-cupertino/)
- [Strangers in our midst](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/16/strangers-in-our-midst/)
- [Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Watson](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/13/dr-jekyll-mr-watson/)
- [Fool me once, shame on you...](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/12/fool-me-once-shame-on-you/)
- [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/)
- [3Dud TV](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/10/3dud-tv/)
- [2011 prediction #10: Apple buys Time Warner Cable](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/06/2011-prediction-10-apple-buys-time-warner-cable/)
- [2011 prediction #9: Apple's Carolina strategy ](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/06/2011-prediction-9-apples-carolina-strategy-part-one/)
- [2011 prediction #8: Cloudburst](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/06/2011-prediction-8-cloudburst/)
- [2011 prediction #7: Microsoft is the new IBM](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/06/2011-prediction-7-microsoft-is-the-new-ibm/)
- [2011 prediction #6: Yahoo barfs](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/05/2011-prediction-6-yahoo-barfs/)
- [2011 prediction #5: Facebook forks](https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/04/2011-prediction-5-facebook-forks/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [And Then Along Comes Larry....](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/29/and-then-along-comes-larry/)
- [You Can't Go Home Again](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/29/you-cant-go-home-again/)
- [The Trojan App](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/21/the-trojan-app/)
- [How To Plug a Leak: Don't](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/20/how-to-plug-a-leak-dont/)
- [It's All Downhill from Here](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/19/its-all-downhill-from-here/)
- [Ich Hasse Hausaufgaben (I Hate Homework)](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/14/ich-hasse-hausaufgaben-i-hate-homework/)
- [Predicting the Future](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/14/predicting-the-future/)
- [Gilmore is Gone](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/10/gilmore-is-gone/)
- [Cyber Rumble](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/09/cyber-rumble/)
- [Dog Days](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/07/dog-days/)
- [Edifice Complex](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/06/edifice-complex/)
- [Verizon LTE iPhone4V](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/06/verizon-lte-iphone4v/)
- [Follow the Money](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/03/follow-the-money/)
- [3D and Me](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/02/3d-and-me/)
- [Wikileaked](https://www.cringely.com/2010/12/01/wikileaked/)
- [The Decline and Fall of E-Mail](https://www.cringely.com/2010/11/27/the-decline-and-fall-of-e-mail/)
- [Rhythm and Noise](https://www.cringely.com/2010/11/17/rhythm-and-noise/)
- [No Life Insurance for Bull Riders](https://www.cringely.com/2010/11/11/no-life-insurance-for-bull-riders/)
- [Any Port in a Storm](https://www.cringely.com/2010/11/07/any-port-in-a-storm/)
- [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/)
- [The Chinese Decade](https://www.cringely.com/2010/10/31/the-chinese-decade/)
- [License to Print Money](https://www.cringely.com/2010/10/26/license-to-print-money/)
- [Energy Past, Energy Future](https://www.cringely.com/2010/10/25/energy-past-energy-future/)
- [AOL+Yahoo is a Jealousy Game](https://www.cringely.com/2010/10/15/aolyahoo-is-a-jealousy-game/)
- [Show Me the Money](https://www.cringely.com/2010/10/12/show-me-the-money/)
- [Spies Like Us](https://www.cringely.com/2010/10/07/spies-like-us/)
- [Crunch Time at AOL](https://www.cringely.com/2010/10/02/crunch-time-at-aol/)
- [Google's Pound of Flesh](https://www.cringely.com/2010/09/27/googles-pound-of-flesh/)
- [Motivating Miss Daisy](https://www.cringely.com/2010/09/16/motivating-miss-daisy/)
- [Enemy Mine](https://www.cringely.com/2010/09/16/enemy-mine/)
- [How Much is Enough?](https://www.cringely.com/2010/09/12/how-much-is-enough/)
- [Where's the Beef?](https://www.cringely.com/2010/09/04/wheres-the-beef/)
- [It's a Sony](https://www.cringely.com/2010/08/31/its-a-sony/)
- [Trolling for Dollars](https://www.cringely.com/2010/08/31/trolling-for-dollars/)
- [When IT Fails](https://www.cringely.com/2010/08/30/when-it-fails/)
- [Little Geeks on the Prairie](https://www.cringely.com/2010/08/24/little-geeks-on-the-prairie/)
- [Too Big to Fail](https://www.cringely.com/2010/08/12/too-big-to-fail/)
- [Stupid CEO Tricks](https://www.cringely.com/2010/08/07/stupid-ceo-tricks/)
- [When Men Were Boys and Boys Were Stupid](https://www.cringely.com/2010/08/01/when-men-were-boys-and-boys-were-stupid/)
- [Dragging Our Asses to Boulder](https://www.cringely.com/2010/07/28/dragging-our-asses-to-boulder/)
- [When Cookies Fail...](https://www.cringely.com/2010/07/28/when-cookies-fail/)
- [Meet Us in Kansas City](https://www.cringely.com/2010/07/23/meet-us-in-kansas-city/)
- [Missing in Action](https://www.cringely.com/2010/07/16/missing-in-action/)
- [Slouching Toward Sunnyvale](https://www.cringely.com/2010/07/14/slouching-toward-sunnyvale/)
- [So Steve Jobs walks into a bar.....](https://www.cringely.com/2010/07/06/so-steve-jobs-walks-into-a-bar/)
- [Apple Goes Semi-Pro (Part Two)](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/28/apple-goes-semi-pro-part-two/)
- [Apple Goes Semi-Pro (Part One)](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/23/apple-goes-semi-pro-part-one/)
- [Doing the Right Thing](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/17/doing-the-right-thing/)
- [I'm with stupid](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/16/im-with-stupid/)
- [BP AdWords cashectomy](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/15/bp-adwords-cashectomy/)
- [Imperial Oil](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/11/imperial-oil/)
- [A Different Kind of Love Story](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/10/a-different-kind-of-love-story/)
- [Paper Chase](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/05/paper-chase/)
- [Semi-Smart](https://www.cringely.com/2010/06/04/semi-smart/)
- [Carried Away](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/30/carried-away/)
- [Death by Foxconn](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/27/death-by-foxconn/)
- [Let's Get Small](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/26/lets-get-small/)
- [LifeBlocked](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/24/lifeblocked/)
- [The Gate is Closed](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/14/the-gate-is-closed/)
- [Question Time](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/11/question-time/)
- [Book 'em, Steve-O](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/06/book-em-steve-o/)
- [Dry Powder](https://www.cringely.com/2010/05/03/dry-powder/)
- [Stevie Hawking and Me](https://www.cringely.com/2010/04/29/stevie-hawking-and-me/)
- [So a Guy Walks into a Bar.....](https://www.cringely.com/2010/04/21/so-a-guy-walks-into-a-bar/)
- [Get a Life](https://www.cringely.com/2010/04/14/get-a-life/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [The Last Ed Roberts Story](https://www.cringely.com/2010/04/06/the-last-ed-roberts-story/)
- [Terminal Man](https://www.cringely.com/2010/04/03/terminal-man/)
- [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/)
- [Collaborize, Rinse, Repeat](https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/23/collaborize-rinse-repeat/)
- [Is There a Google News Blacklist?](https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/16/is-there-a-google-news-blacklist/)
- [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/)
- [The 94 Percent Solution](https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/11/the-94-percent-solution/)
- [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/)
- [100 Startups and Growing Fast!](https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/05/100-startups-and-growing-fast/)
- [Fire in the Hole! Another New Gig for Bob](https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/03/another-new-gig-for-bob/)
- [The Smell of Entrepreneurism in the Morning](https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/02/the-smell-of-entrepreneurism-in-the-morning/)
- [No Flash in the Pad](https://www.cringely.com/2010/02/22/no-flash-in-the-pad/)
- [Google's Walk in the PARC](https://www.cringely.com/2010/02/15/googles-walk-in-the-parc/)
- [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/)
- [Authentication is Secondary](https://www.cringely.com/2010/02/04/authentication-is-secondary/)
- [Moonset](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/31/moonset/)
- [Apple Tablet Twit!](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/26/apple-tablet-twit/)
- [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/)
- [Mobile 2010 Predictions: Apple, Google & RIM, Oh My!](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/22/mobile-2010-predictions-apple-google-rim-oh-my/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [When Is Your Bank Not Your Bank?](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/10/when-is-your-bank-not-your-bank/)
- [Predict Me, I'm from the Government](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/08/predict-me-im-from-the-government/)
- [Microsoft 2010 SP1](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/07/microsoft-2010-sp1/)
- [Nexus None](https://www.cringely.com/2010/01/05/nexus-none/)
- [Remembering Y2K](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/31/remembering-y2k/)
- [Fallon's Getting a Dell!](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/30/fallons-getting-a-dell/)
- [New Cringely Posts on AOL](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/30/new-cringely-posts-on-aol/)
- [The Next White Whale](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/29/the-next-white-whale/)
- [New Improved MS Word 2007!](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/22/new-improved-microsoft-word-2007/)
- [DVD Is Dead](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/22/dvd-is-dead/)
- [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/)
- [FedEx Kinkos Won't Print Our Christmas Card](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/15/fedex-kinkos-wont-print-our-christmas-card/)
- [AOL Real Estate](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/10/aol-real-estate/)
- [Intel Will Buy nVIDIA](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/08/intel-will-buy-nvidia/)
- [Ask and Ye Shall Receive](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/06/ask-and-ye-shall-receive/)
- [Three Simple Rules for Stealing My Money](https://www.cringely.com/2009/12/01/three-simple-rules-for-stealing-my-money/)
- [Chrome and Chrome, What is Chrome?](https://www.cringely.com/2009/11/24/chrome-and-chrome-what-is-chrome/)
- [Pictures in Our Heads](https://www.cringely.com/2009/11/17/pictures-in-our-heads/)
- [Tossed in Space](https://www.cringely.com/2009/11/13/tossed-in-space/)
- [News Corp to Offer Plaid Stamps!](https://www.cringely.com/2009/11/09/news-corp-to-offer-plaid-stamps/)
- [Brett Versus Bob: Taking Net Neutrality Personally](https://www.cringely.com/2009/11/03/brett-versus-bob-taking-net-neutrality-personally/)
- [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/)
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- [And a Network Engineer Shall Lead Them](https://www.cringely.com/2009/03/02/and-a-network-engineer-shall-lead-them/)
- [Where's Steve?](https://www.cringely.com/2009/02/21/wheres-steve/)
- [The Bentonville Mafia](https://www.cringely.com/2009/02/18/the-bentonville-mafia/)
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