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'The way to make money in technology,' a young Bill Gates told me in the summer of 1990, 'is by setting de facto standards.' It worked, too. For years, Microsoft [...]

When Anwar Ghuloum came to work at Intel in 2002, the company was supreme among chip makers, mainly because it was delivering processors that ran at higher and higher speeds. […]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Its Black Hat week, and not only dont I have a black hat, theyre shaving my head. I didnt even make it a quarter of the [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Id like to feel sorry for folks affected by the Ashley Madison hack. Oh hell, thats a lie; I wouldnt like to and I dont. I've [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Its the age-old adage: Science giveth and the rubes taketh away. Because of this universal truth, Im stuck in jail again, this time somewhere in the [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Were deep in the dog days of summer here in New York. Braving the outside means risking permanent fusion with your Jockeys or psychological scarring inflicted [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Here it is, Thursday, and we've had an epically entertaining week. In one corner, another yahoo has declared a 2016 presidential bid, which brings the total [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely You had me going there for a second. Headlines like 'FCC plans to fine AT&T $100M for data throttling' and 'NYC threatens to sue Verizon for [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely This journalism racket is tough, so I had to act fast a couple of days ago when I heard that Elop was on the outs. But [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Some weeks see little or no advancement in the human condition. During these times, scanning the media for headlines promising a brighter tomorrow yields only election [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Back in the mid-2000s I was invited to the campus of a tech giant in the Pacific Northwest that shall, for the sake of the InfoWorld [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely What's the name of today's up-and-coming generation? Whatever it is, we might think about changing it to the Overts or the Ultra-Gregarians or Generation Flasher. While [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Ding dong, the watch is dead, the Apple Watch is dead. As my most detail-conscious readers are aware, I occasionally comment on my rapidly, blindingly, rocket-propelled [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely A common pattern of ambition affects many occupations. For example, most lawyers eventually want to be politicians, and most cops eventually want to become full-time doughnut [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Ive reached an age where medical care of any kind becomes an adventure. In younger years, doctors were primarily engines of routine function: Go in for [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Once again, the seasons are changing on the East Coast, which means I'm due for my annual possession by Beelzebubs Death Flu. Im sick, ill, and [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely I made two wishes today: for Gov. Gregg Abbotts cellphone number and a Windows 10 phone. That way, when he panders to the lunatic fringe about [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Win some, lose some. I like to poke fun at our institutes of higher learning, especially when they spend grant money on real-world research like zombie [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely A long, long, long time ago, a well-meaning wingnut told a collegiate me that Id make a good lawyer. In response, I keyed his car. I [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely I like what I call popcorn columns: topics that explode out of the popper that is the daily Internet of trending tech headlines. These featherweight puffs [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely I turned 21 in a medium-sized Massachusetts town (not that one) that shall remain nameless. Though I may have tasted the sweet nectar of alcohol prior [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Im lying in a figurative abyss, covered in metaphorical smoking ash, gurgling down very real scotch because Pammy dropped a bomb on me. Last week, she [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely April Fools' Day may be over, but the fallout continues. For me, it always comes back to the central mystery: Was it or was it not [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely I hate April Fools' Day, and not because its two weeks before Federally Mandated Pickpocket Day. Its the one day people expect me to be more [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Its definitely getting worse. Im referring, of course, to the ongoing trend of overvalued multi-freak-zillion-dollar tech firms expanding their businesses into markets completely unrelated to their [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Theres a moment in everyones existence, toward the tail end of midlife, where we look around in utter confusion. Many people mistake it for the first [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Im starting to think honesty is overrated. Strike that -- I know its overrated. The right lie at the right time delivered in the right way [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Today, I was set to write about the FCCs recent posting of its Net neutrality laws/guidelines/timid suggestions, but it occurred to me I'd have to download [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely I recently received an email from a fresh-faced Ivy League grad asking me to mentor him in the wild, wooly world of tech startups. I decided [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Ive nearly given up on a Pulitzer and not because I write like an eighth grader. Its because you people arent giving me anything. Ive sent [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Once again, Im in jail and its all InfoWorld's fault. If only my editor had forked for my freight to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress 2015, [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely We are ruined. We are wax puppets spit-roasting over a campfire. We are cats about to be spayed by dogs. Net neutrality has passed, woe to [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Its time to begin my own Kickstarter project. After all, geniuses like Elon Musk and Bill Gates have taken valuable seconds out from building backyard AI [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely What does a person have to do to get a pizza delivered? If you're in the area formerly known as the great American Northeast, now doubling [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely What exactly is a researcher? Who are these people, and how can I become one of them? The job seems easier than my current occupation, and [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely First, a sad doff of the fedora to Bob Simon, a journalists journalist and a true icon of the business with whom I can claim to [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Heart attacks hurt. I know this because I had one after learning our government can have sane ideas about technology. My heart swelled three sizes, began [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Why isnt there a tire-changing robot? The thought stabbed me on a lonely shoulder off I-95 as slush from a two-foot snow bank seeped into my [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Im in turquoise hell, trapped in the back booth of a Kirkland, Wash., watering hole trying to calm a terrified software tester whom Ive rescued from [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Ive been binge-watching 'The West Wing' so hard I fell into a coma. The InfoWorld SWAT team had to kick down my door and Taser me [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Youll forgive the slight tardiness of this post, but its difficult to type when your spine and extremities have turned to oatmeal. To catch up: In [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely Theres a chance I might be getting too old for Vegas. There was a time when I could traipse the show floor all day, consume a [...]

Byline: Robert X. Cringely A tacky patina eventually coats anyone who spends time in the bowels of Las Vegas imagine glitter particles mixed with poker chip dust and cigar smoke, [...]