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Is Apple seeking a union with Adobe?

Robert Cringely makes a case for Apple buying Adobe. What I DO see happening is Apple buying Adobe, which would give it effective dominance of digital content creation and distribution on a global scale. Bruce Chizen suddenly stepped down as Adobe's CEO without warning: why? A caretaker CEO (my...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Robert Cringely, Steve, Corporate Communications, Mergers & Acquisitions, Desktops, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Hardware, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-11

Robert Cringely shows blatant ignorance of networking

Robert Cringely shows blatant ignorance of networkingRight on George!That PBS guy is a typical "journalist". Like most journalists, he pops off with great abandon on topics he has little or no knowledge about. The errors in that column are indicitive of someone who's read the dictionary, but doesn't really understand...

Tags: NETWORKING, network, Robert, Robert Cringely, IPv6, IPv4, blatant ignorance

Discussion threads 2006-11-06

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Akamai: Broadband consumption clouds outlook

Akamai: Broadband consumption clouds outlookBroadband consumption is a short term problemIn the long run I believe Robert X. Cringley prediction.http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080718_005261.htmlRE: Akamai: Broadband consumption clouds outlookThat's too not to. As an Editor you should use the correct words."Needless to say those comments didn’t go over to well as Akamai shares...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Akamai Technologies Inc., Broadband consumption, broadband

Discussion threads 2008-07-31

Microsoft builds out its first containerized datacenter

Microsoft builds out its first containerized datacenterVerari = GarbageOnly thing going for Verari is their price. Other than that....They are garbage. Garbage over the counter parts that you can by at your local Mom and Pap PC shop. Horrible support. I really don't understand why companies waste their time and...

Tags: Data centers, Verari, data center, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-02

Apple investors have their say on the Macworld 08 keynote

Apple investors have their say on the Macworld 08 keynoteiPhone: no exchange server clientI was disapointed that there was not more innovation for the iPhone: no exchange server client, no 3G speed upgrade, no memory increase.Stocks go up and downInvestors are simply doing what they always do for Macworld--selling off...

Tags: Investment, MSFT, Citigroup Inc., Honda Motor Co., Apple Inc., Apple Investors, Macworld, Apple iPhone, stock, tech stock, Apple-hardware

Discussion threads 2008-01-15

Apple-Adobe merger? Love the idea!

I love the idea of Apple buying Adobe, as proposed by Robert Cringely. In a world where technology competition is virtually always beneficial to users, such a union would strengthen Apple's platform position against Windows. A stronger Apple, combined with Linux's growing influence, would keep healthy pressure on Microsoft. Toss...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Merger, Apple Inc., Linux, Desktops, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Mergers & Acquisitions, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Investment, Finance, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-01-11

What would an Apple-Adobe merger mean to Microsoft?

We interrupt our ongoing series of Microsoft reorg posts to speculate on one heck of a speculative post by pundit Robert Cringely. Cringely thinks an Apple-Adobe merger makes sense on a variety of fronts. If it ever did come to pass, it would make for interesting ...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Merger, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cringely, SmartFlow, Media Center PCs, Mergers & Acquisitions, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Productivity, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Investment, Finance, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Consumer Electronics, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-01-11

The falling price of graphics cards and RAM will be the death of the 32-bit OS

The falling price of graphics cards and RAM will be the death of the 32-bit OSAAAH! We're running out of places to put F's!!!NT :)1GB RAM, Entry-level graphics is enough for the averageYes, this configuration is enough for Windows Vista Ultimate plus some RAM hungry apps such as MATLAB, Photoshop...

Tags: Network technology, operating system, video card, 64-bit, 32-bit, RAM, graphics

Discussion threads 2007-11-12

The Desktop Virtualization Diaries (prologue): The Good, the Bad, and the horribly Ugly

The Desktop Virtualization Diaries prologue: The Good, the Bad, and the horribly UglyWorkstation 6 can show battery statusGo to VM > Settings > Options > Power and select Report battery information to guest. Then, in the VM, make sure your OS is set to display the battery status.You need to...

Tags: Operating systems, VPNs, Engineering, Workstations, VMware Workstation, innotek VirtualBox, O/S, VPN, operating system, Unix, battery, workstation, desktop

Discussion threads 2007-06-28

Cringely doesn't need no stinking facts to push Net Neutrality

Robert X. Cringely - the PBS pundit who was caught masquerading as a Stanford PhD and Professor) - has a new blog out titled "We Dont Need No Stinking Best Effort". Cringely has come out with another bogus accusation against the Broadband companies claiming that theyre now in a...

Tags: VoIP, Technology policy, Networking, Net Neutrality

Blog posts 2007-04-13

IT: where success fails, and failure succeeds

IT: where success fails, and failure succeedsIt has long been accepted as ...... common knowledge that the staff operating under an effective manager do not notice that they are being managed. Those under an ineffective or incompetent manager notice him very quickly.The same is true of IT depts and other...

Tags: Strategy, information technology

Discussion threads 2007-03-08

Robert Cringely shows blatant ignorance of networking

Normally I don't get too worked up when someone makes a complete fool out of themselves on networking issues but when a well known pundit like Robert Cringely of PBS writes an article that's filled with errors from beginning to finish about IPv6, I have to ...

Tags: Security, Infrastructure, Mobile/Wireless, Networking, Vista, Desktop, Linux, IPv6

Blog posts 2006-11-06

Cool Codes

Cool CodesCheck Robt Cringely's column this weekI had a professor once who talked about synchronicity, where a new idea suddenly emerges from many seemingly unrelated directions simultaneously. Robert X Cringely (at http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060901.html) was on this week about a St. Louis, Missouri-based company named Appistry that seems to do exactly what...

Tags: Processors, processor, Appistry, not-so, developer, Cringely

Discussion threads 2006-09-03

What about Bill Gates?

What about Bill Gates?Absolutely - Bill Gates and Microsoft have made a lasting impactInfact if it was left to IBM, the PC would have remained a toy. To them their earnings would come from mainframes selling to businesses.If it was left to Apple they clearly had no idea of what...

Tags: Desktops, Mainframes, Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, Bill Gates, PC, Apple Macintosh, mainframe, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-07-25

To save Net Neutrality, here's why The Torrents must die- and then be reborn

Two weeks ago, when fellow ZDNet blogger George Ou and I started having our lively debate about net neutrality legislation, George pointed out that because Bit Torrents and allied technology (a.k.a. "The Torrents") are such a giant bandwidth-suck on the Internet, that the huge amount of bandwidth they consume...

Tags: Torrents

Blog posts 2006-06-23

It's a bad day to be Robert X.

It's a bad day to be Robert X.Well Within the Realm of PossibilityThis [i]I, Cringley[/i] article is well within the realm of possibility!:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/opinion/08cringely.html?ex=1302148800&en=466f659f88528ec4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rssNever say [i]Never[/i]!Hmm a blog about someone blogging about a blogSo some people have disagree with comments that Robert X Cringley wrote about. I have been reading Bob...

Tags: Blogging, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Robert, Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2006-04-09

It's a bad day to be Robert X.

Robert X. Cringely is a bufoon - proved once again by his latest "get it wrong at all costs" screed. Anyone who's read his column more than once probably was able to figure that out all by themselves. But, just in case the facts that he's a PBS columnist hiding...

Tags: Robert, Robert X., Cringely

Blog posts 2006-04-09

Throw in the towel on malware? No way

Pop quiz time. You're an IT manager at a large government agency. You discover one day that more than 2000 computers under your control are infected with dozens of spyware programs, keyloggers, and other forms of malware. Do you:A. Blame Microsoft.B. Hire temps and send them around to run anti-spyware...

Tags: computer, malware

Blog posts 2006-04-07

Apple plasmas and bad intel

I think that it's time to address the elephant in the room: the Apple plasma story that I floated in the run up to Macworld Expo. The story was based on a tip that I received from a source that was reliable in the past and after checking it with...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc.

Blog posts 2006-01-25

The Google PC...why not?

The rumors have been flying around that Google will introduce a low-cost PC sold through mass market retailers like Wal-Mart. According to the sources-said report from the Los Angeles Times, the PC would run Google's Linux-flavored operating system and be tuned for online services. And, it would cost far...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-01-03