Are tech firms faking job ads to avoid hiring US workers?
Companies like Hewlett Packard, Cisco, and others are being accused of skirting federal laws to hire foreign workers while laying off American geeks. Cringely labors to uncover the truth.
View ArticleSocial Netiquette: Oh Behave!
Think you know how to mind your manners in the brave new world of social networks? You may be in for a rude awakening. [Note: A severely neutered version of this story appears on Macworld.com. Call...
View ArticleGreatest gadgets of the last five years (and maybe of all time)
The best gadgets are simple, elegant, and change your life in ways you don’t expect Five years ago my Gadget Freak column began with a simple mission. To explore brave new technologies, to seek out new...
View ArticleDear Firefox: Please forgive me…
She was the new girl in town for a while, but Google Chrome has lost her shine. Sorry Chrome: You’ve been swell, but I’m going back to my old flame, Firefox. Dear Firefox: When we met three years ago,...
View ArticleIs Gmail really a ‘train wreck’?
Part Deux of my ‘letters to inanimate software series’ continues with this missive to Gmail, responding to the dozens of commenters on Digg and Culture Crash beat me up over this. Dear Gmail: I know, I...
View ArticleInterview with the Geek Goddess
Is technology different for women? Christina Tynan-Wood, author of the recently published How to Be a Geek Goddess from No Starch Press, says Hell Yes. If anyone should know, it’s Tynan-Wood, who is...
View ArticleHappy Square Root Day, math geeks
You may not be aware of it, but tomorrow's a national holiday for the pocket-protector-and-slide-rule crowd. But why settle for just one numerically inspired celebration each year? Cringely goes in for...
View ArticleThe 10 Dumbest Tech Moves of 2009
What do Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and AT&T all have in common? They're all winners of Cringely's awards for bringing low comedy to high tech.
View ArticleIs there a sexbot in your future?
I can’t remember who first said it, but it seems truer every day: The future just ain’t what it used to be. Here we are in 2010, and I’m still waiting for my personal jetpack, let alone a transporter....
View ArticleTynan’s Laws of Wires
Sir Issac Tynan, the near-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of this blog’s author, formulated these rules more than a century ago, and yet they still hold true. Believed to have been lost to...
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