Robert X. Cringely - Author

Stories by Robert X. Cringely

Article | 29/04/2013 In Pictures: Greatest comebacks in tech history

Knocked flat and left for dead -- these 10 technologies and companies turned around their fate with historic flair

Article | 15/03/2013 In Pictures: The 10 greatest betrayals in high tech

Tech-minded backstabbers abound. Don't get caught this Ides of March with your back turned to the wrong vendor, partner, or customer

Article | 15/02/2013 In Pictures: 10 high-tech breakups and hookups to look for in 2013

Buyouts, betrayals, and booty calls - the tech industry is steamy with merger and split-up intrigue

Article | 1/02/2013 In Pictures: Hot or not, 10 tech trends for 2013

Breakouts and busts: Here's the lowdown on this year's sizzlers and fizzlers in tech

Article | 26/11/2012 In Pictures: Golden Gobblers 2012 - Angry birdbrains of tech

Who are the top turkeys in tech? Cringely serves up a few deserving candidates. Please pass the gravy.

Article | 4/07/2012 In Pictures: The 10 worst tech screwups of 2012 (so far)

Among a bounty of flops, flubs, and faceplants, Cringely picks tech's 10 biggest blunders we've seen in the first half of the year

Article | 25/02/2011 Invitation to obsession: Apple's iPad 2

Spitting into tea cups, poking goat entrails, tracing the movements of the stars across the heavens, dialing up the Psychic Friends Network -- these t...

Article | 19/02/2011 IBM's Watson makes it official -- humanity is toast

"I for one welcome our new computer overlords" -- that's a quote from Ken Jennings, the guy who used to be the world's biggest "Jeopardy" egghead unti...

Article | 12/02/2011 2011: The year hacking goes mainstream

I've said it before and I'll say it again.This will be the year of the hacker --- or rather, the year hacking goes mainstream.

Article | 3/02/2011 Microsoft Bing: Powered by Google?

It doesn't get much better than this: two tech giants playing a game of "cheater cheater pumpkin eater" and "I know you are but what am I?" in public ...

Article | 19/01/2011 Can Apple survive without Steve Jobs?

Stop me if you've heard this one: Steve Jobs is taking another medical leave from Apple.

Article | 15/01/2011 The world according to Michael Arrington

Ah, AOL -- just when it looked like you were about to slip into boring mediocrity, you surprise us yet again with your antics.

Article | 12/01/2011 CES 2011: Where tablet PCs and 3D TVs ruled

My pockets are stuffed full of business cards from people I do not remember meeting, my head is thumping like a flamenco dancer, there's margarita sal...

Article | 8/01/2011 Is the Microsoft-Intel marriage finally over?

Cringely here, reporting from CES in Vegas, where rude beasts walk the earth (at least, the ones that don't crawl or slither), impeded in their forwar...

Article | 18/12/2010 RIP, AltaVista and Google Wave; we hardly knew ye

Today a lot of people are mourning the possible loss of Delicious (or, as it used to be known, del.icio.us), following news that Yahoo is planning to ...