Robert X. Cringely - Author

Stories by Robert X. Cringely

Article | 9/09/2010 Craigslist to state attorneys: Censor this

Probably the last thing Craig Newmark ever imagined was that the little email list he started back in 1995 would one day be at the center of a controv...

Article | 4/09/2010 Consumer Watchdog thinks Google's Schmidt is a data perv

Imagine wandering through Times Square and seeing a 60-foot-tall animation depicting you (yes, you) as a creepy child-baiting ice cream truck driver. ...

Article | 21/08/2010 Can you trust Facebook Places?

Facebook, the company many people don't trust to protect their status updates and personal information, is now in the business of collecting location ...

Article | 19/08/2010 The Class of 2014: What these kids don't know

Beloit College has published its Mindset List for the Class of 2014, an annual tradition designed to capture the "cultural touchstones that shape the ...

Article | 10/08/2010 HP's sex scandal: Obscene and not Hurd

It's usually other industries that get all the sex scandals. Politics, sports, entertainment -- hardly a week goes by without someone getting their da...

Article | 20/07/2010 Here lies the Google Nexus One: 2010-2010

The Nexus One is dead, Jim.

Article | 13/07/2010 Five Android apps we desperately need

You say your secret ambition in life is to build the world's greatest mobile flatulence app? Here's your chance.

Article | 8/07/2010 RIP Microsoft Kin, you won't be missed

It's been a week since <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/microsoft-kills-the-kin-910">Microsoft took its two fledgling Kin smartphones for ...

Article | 22/06/2010 Google's Wi-Fi spygate is its BP moment

While it doesn't quite rank up there with dumping hundreds of millions of gallons of crude oil into the ocean <a href="http://larrykinglive.blogs.cnn....

Article | 19/06/2010 Spies, WikiLeaks, and hackers, oh my!

It's like a Hollywood thriller. A military spy is arrested, betrayed by someone he thought to be a comrade in arms -- a brilliant yet mentally disable...

Article | 9/06/2010 Danger, danger! Tech overload ahead

Today of course is the first day of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference -- another Steve Jobs love fest during which he trots out the latest lif...

Article | 10/06/2010 Lies, damned lies, and technology hype

Hyperbole seems to be an inevitable by product of new technology; you build a new gizmo, you end up getting a certain amount of hype all over your clo...

Article | 5/06/2010 CEOs gone wild

They're like out-of-control teenagers - flouting authority, spewing abuse, wrecking the car, allowing 10 billion gallons of crude oil to slime up the ...

Article | 3/06/2010 Microsoft is dead, long live GoogApple

I recently had an experience that epitomizes everything that's wrong with Microsoft and why it is rapidly being tossed into the Recycling Bin of histo...

Article | 29/05/2010 Letter from a CEO: Steve Jobs responds to your email

A few weeks ago I asked readers what they'd say to Steve Jobs, if they have the opportunity to email him. I promised to forward any emails onto Mr. Jo...