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2026 16

  1. The Auditor’s Opinion
  2. ARM Never Made a Chip. Dolby Never Built a Speaker.
  3. The Cases That Don’t Exist
  4. Apple Gave Siri Hands
  5. The Market Behind the Wall
  6. Two Brains
  7. GenAI is Fluent in Everything, but Faithful in Nothing
  8. Detection Is Not a Strategy
  9. Knowing What You Don’t Know
  10. The Most Expensive Mistake in the History of Computing
  11. The Thirty Percent Confession
  12. The Lying Machine
  13. The NVIDIA Tax
  14. The Permission Slip
  15. Where the heck have I been all this time?
  16. I’m writing again…

2023 3

  1. Apple’s Vision Pro headset is a hobby. Why won’t Tim Cook say that?
  2. AI and Moore’s Law: It’s the Chips, Stupid
  3. If you want to reduce ChatGPT mediocrity, do it promptly

2022 8

  1. What about the layoffs at Meta and Twitter? Elon is crazy! WTF???
  2. Paul Graham’s Legacy
  3. What yesterday’s Apple satellite announcement really means
  4. Apple’s Space Ambitions are Real
  5. Putin plays his asshole card
  6. How to quickly end the war in Ukraine with $10 laser pointers
  7. Here’s why Putin won’t use nukes in Ukraine — Pass it on.
  8. When is a no-fly zone not a no-fly zone? When it’s an airlift.

2021 12

  1. Bob’s 9/11 post from 20 years ago — To a Man With a Hammer
  2. Einstein’s Fridge: Who knew the history of thermodynamics was so much like high school?
  3. Starlink is a global ISP built at ZERO COST to SpaceX, enabling NASA’s Artemis launch
  4. 10 years later Fukushima Daiichi still melts down my heart
  5. Half a dozen little 2021 predictions about life after COVID-19
  6. 2021 Prediction #6: COVID-19, Clubhouse, and the Great High School Reset
  7. 2021 Prediction #5: Apple (and maybe Google) saves the world
  8. 2021 Prediction #4: WiFi 6 is a bust (for now) as Bufferbloat returns thanks to ISP greed
  9. 2021 Prediction #3: Get ready for more GameStops as hedge funds are no longer the only bullies in town
  10. 2021 Prediction #2: Peak Facebook as Zuck runs out of role models
  11. 2021 Prediction #1: Trump will do fine without Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook
  12. Bob’s 2021 Tech Predictions: What a Difference a Pandemic Makes

2020 21

  1. The Big Sky is Falling
  2. 2020-21 is the asterisk academic year
  3. Tesla won the self-driving car war, they just aren’t telling us
  4. The Incentive Game
  5. President Trump thinks he can shut down WeChat: It won’t work
  6. Mark Zuckerberg’s Pact with the Devil
  7. After switching to ARM, expect Apple to buy TSMC, too
  8. Jeff Bezos Can’t Lose
  9. Cringely’s Rules for Home Schooling in the Age of COVID-19
  10. COVID-19 Lessons from Three Mile Island #2 — the NRC
  11. Three Mile Island Lessons for COVID-19: FEMA and Me
  12. Sometimes We Get Lucky: ProjectN95.org
  13. Not Just the End of IT, the End of IT Contractors
  14. 2020 Brings the Death of IT
  15. COVID-19 will Kill a Ton of Startups (or So it Will Seem)
  16. What an Epidemic is Really Like
  17. 2020 Prediction: COVID-19 will suck like 9/11
  18. How to save 400,000 lives per year (four million in the world)
  19. My first two predictions for 2020 — IBM and Trump
  20. Looking back at Y2K from the Trump Era
  21. Not dead yet! What Bob Cringely has been up to…

2019 8

  1. The Future of Television
  2. Prediction #5 — Drones become Pizza-to-the-Neighborhood (PTTN)
  3. Prediction #4 — Self-driving cars won’t happen this year no matter what Elon says
  4. 2019 Predictions #2 and #3 — A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) shakeout and legal trouble for AWS
  5. 2019 Prediction #1 — Apple under Tim Cook emulates GE under Jack Welch
  6. Bob’s Predictions for 2019 — The Year When Everything Changes… Forever
  7. Looking back at 2018 predictions, Bob was somehow 70 percent correct
  8. Two thirds done, yet still writing predictions…

2018 22

  1. Apple knows 5G is about infrastructure, NOT mobile phones
  2. Red Hat takes over IBM
  3. Remembering Paul Allen
  4. Triggering a Trump meltdown: What was the point of that anonymous Op-Ed piece, anyway?
  5. Kai-Fu Lee’s new book says Artificial Intelligence will be Google vs China and will kill half the world’s jobs
  6. IT is urbanizing, McDonald’s gets it, but Woonsocket doesn’t (yet)
  7. How to cut the cable yet stay within your bandwidth cap
  8. Cloud Computing May Finally End the Productivity Paradox
  9. GDPR Kills the American Internet: Long Live the Internet!
  10. The space race is over and SpaceX won
  11. The real problem with self-driving cars
  12. Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and our personal data
  13. Stephen Hawking and me
  14. We win, you lose: How shareholder value screwed the middle class
  15. Predictions #8-10: Apple, IBM & Zuckerberg
  16. Prediction #7 — 2018 will see the first Alexa virus
  17. Prediction #6 — AI comes of age, this time asking the questions, too
  18. 2018 Prediction #5 — The H-1B visa problem will NOT go away
  19. Prediction #4 — Bitcoin stays crazy until traders learn it is not a currency
  20. Prediction #3 — 2018 foreign profit repatriation is a $591.8 BILLION taxpayer ripoff
  21. Why do I do this to myself? Bob’s first predictions for 2018
  22. After surgery, a visionary finally sneaks back to work

2017 22

  1. Net Neutrality will die, so let’s take the profit out of killing it.
  2. Amazon is Becoming the New Microsoft
  3. We’ve Reached the Cloud Computing Tipping Point
  4. I have no boils
  5. The Google Lunar X-Prize wasn’t extended, it was ENDED
  6. A nanotechnology overnight sensation 30 years in the making!
  7. Will Trump avoid military action against North Korean ICBMs?
  8. Cringely, like Milton, is blind. But Milton was a better writer.
  9. The Robots are Coming!
  10. Mineserver Update: We’re not dead yet!
  11. Trump’s 2016 Big Data political arms race
  12. The Cloud Computing Tidal Wave
  13. Can Amazon’s Echo Dot Make a Good SIDS Alarm?
  14. Remembering Bob Taylor
  15. How to Get Rich Trading Bitcoin
  16. Wikileaks finds a business model
  17. The CIA, WikiLeaks and Spy Versus Spy
  18. Remember Pirates of Silicon Valley? I sure do.
  19. No fracking way! Fukushima is worse than ever
  20. Trump’s anti-H-1B order won’t be what it seems
  21. Four more predictions for 2017
  22. Bob’s Big Picture technology predictions for 2017

2016 53

  1. News we aren’t supposed to know
  2. What’s Real about Fake News
  3. Welcome to the Post-Decision Age
  4. Saving the Internet of Things (IoT)
  5. President Trump: The Hangover
  6. What the heck is happening at Apple?
  7. Social media? Bob needs a social mediaTOR
  8. Losing sight of the news
  9. Fifteen years after 9-11 threats have evolved, too
  10. What Carrie Underwood’s success teaches us about IBM’s Watson failure
  11. John Ellenby dies at 75
  12. The self-driving car is old enough to drink and drive
  13. Moon Express gets FAA “approval” for Moon mission
  14. Outsourced IT probably hurt Delta Airlines when their power went out
  15. Famous American blogger strikes back against China
  16. Is anyone at Yahoo! paying attention? Probably not.
  17. Why SoftBank is paying $32 billion for ARM Holdings
  18. A PayPal Mystery
  19. Thinking about Big Data — Part Three (the final and somewhat scary part)
  20. Thinking about Big Data — Part Two
  21. Thinking about Big Data — Part One
  22. What’s the deal with online journalism?
  23. Remembering Brentrance (not Brexit) and Steve Jobs returns to Netflix
  24. LinkedIn gets lucky
  25. The mainframe is dead. Long live the mainframe!
  26. What does Bill Gates know about raising chickens?
  27. My first Seeking Alpha post ran today
  28. The Problem with Analytics
  29. Apple and Didi is about foreign cash and the future of motoring
  30. Why wind turbines have three blades
  31. Searching for a nanotech self-organizing principle
  32. Our $27,500 drone. Do you have one, too?
  33. Is IBM guilty of age discrimination? — Part two
  34. Is IBM guilty of age discrimination? — Part one
  35. Equity crowdfunding finally arrives May 15th: curb your enthusiasm
  36. Avram Miller on the death yesterday of Intel’s Andy Grove
  37. Ginni the Eagle: IBM’s Corporate “Transformation”
  38. $99 Mineserver: The Devil is in the Details
  39. What’s happening at IBM (it’s dying)
  40. The FBI v. Apple isn’t at all the way you think it is
  41. Why Apple doesn’t sell televisions
  42. Amazon bookstores: It’s the drones, stupid
  43. Personal computers approach retirement age
  44. Final Prediction #10: Apple will buy Dish Network
  45. Prediction #9: Intel starts to become irrelevant
  46. Lost Prediction #4 — My Steve Jobs movie returns to Netflix
  47. Prediction #8: Apple WILL NOT buy Time Warner
  48. Prediction #7: Internet of Things becomes a security nightmare
  49. IBM loses its mind
  50. Predictions 5 & 6: Drones and driverless cars? Not this year
  51. Predictions #2 (and 3?): Microsoft and Apple hit walls
  52. 2016 Prediction #1 — Beginning of the end for engineering workstations
  53. Welcome to 2016 Predictions Week!

2015 42

  1. My fridge is listening to me
  2. Soylent Green — Now Made with More Women!
  3. Amazon’s cloud monopoly
  4. Why Yahoo is worth less than nothing
  5. Last chance to get a Mineserver™ for Christmas!
  6. It’s Michael Dell versus the world and Dell will win
  7. Dell buys EMC and gets the corporate cloud for free
  8. The Cringely boys Kickstart Mineserver™, a $99 Minecraft server
  9. Chinese talking cybersecurity means security is already lost
  10. Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
  11. Another 9/11 anniversary passes quietly
  12. Evil Google waiting on line one
  13. Google’s OnHub router may save WiFi from itself
  14. How I (and you?) am hurting the PC industry
  15. Who is your IT outsourcing firm working for?
  16. IBM is so screwed
  17. Remember when technology was exciting?
  18. The U.S. computer industry is dying and I’ll tell you exactly who is killing it and why
  19. Fathers Day 2015
  20. The H-1B visa program is a scam
  21. Disney’s IT troubles go beyond H-IBs
  22. Autodesk’s John Walker explained HP and IBM in 1991
  23. Apple TV’s 4K Future
  24. Sadie’s Apple Watch Arrived Two Weeks Early
  25. The KickStarter Paradox
  26. Your PBX has been hacked!
  27. A tale of three voicemails
  28. AWS shows Cloud is NOT a high-margin business
  29. Where the money is… or was
  30. The Net Neutrality Mystery
  31. The Indiana Pi Bill, Ellen Pao, and IBM
  32. Net Neutrality, Apple, and the future of TV
  33. Be a cloud storage tycoon with Google Nearline
  34. The sky is falling and the FAA isn’t ready
  35. Entrepreneurism and the politics of hope
  36. Reporter’s Notebook: Yahoo, IBM, IEEE and me
  37. Remembering Radio Shack
  38. IBM is right, I am a gadfly
  39. IBM’s reorg-from-Hell launches next week
  40. 2015 Predictions: It’s about the money, stupid!
  41. 2015 Will Be the Year When Nothing Happened
  42. But first a look back at Bob’s predictions for 2014

2014 53

  1. Can it be that time already? Call for 2015 predictions!
  2. Executive ego and the Sony Pictures network hack
  3. TV 3.0 is already here
  4. How to fix IBM
  5. Ginni comes to her senses, but too late for IBM?
  6. IBM’s Power8 servers are less than meets the eye
  7. To stop data theft, pull the plug
  8. Why I have grown to hate steamgames.com
  9. One way (maybe the only way) Yahoo can succeed
  10. The Enemy in HR
  11. Apple proves that moats are for dummies
  12. Mobile Carriers Are Trying To Control Your Texting
  13. Fear and loathing in Rolex-ville
  14. Oh Vern, where art thou?
  15. An economist walks into a bar…
  16. Home Depot and the smoking zip-zap machine
  17. Refresh mobile hits the desktop
  18. For future computing, look (as always) to Star Trek
  19. The Age of Supply, not Demand
  20. The Fed suckered IBM into a failing cloud strategy?
  21. IBM and Apple just not that big a deal
  22. The Coming Microsoft Cultural Revolution
  23. Bitcoin quietly goes legit
  24. The Secret of Google X
  25. IBM back in the USSR?
  26. Analyzing IBM Analytics
  27. The Decline and Fall of IBM
  28. Apple’s iPad Problem
  29. Did the NSA help kill UWB?
  30. Level3 is without peer, now what to do?
  31. When are economic sanctions not sanctions at all?
  32. Avram Miller says Steve Jobs has one more Apple intro
  33. Digital Me: Will the next Cringely be from Gmail?
  34. Big Data is the new Artificial Intelligence
  35. Some thoughts on the passing of Windows XP
  36. Facebook drones won’t work for aerial Internet
  37. Google Earth is now on Mainframe2
  38. So Pat McGovern walks into a bar…
  39. An impending black swan for electric cars
  40. Bitcoin is down but not out
  41. pCell is only as good as the Linux it runs on
  42. WhatsApp is the first of several big acquisitions for Facebook
  43. As Seen on TV: ThreeDrive, from CringeCo
  44. Apple needs Time-Warner Cable more than does Comcast
  45. Nadella’s success at Microsoft probably depends on Gates
  46. IBM sells Intel server business, company is doomed
  47. Net neutrality is dead, but it probably doesn’t matter
  48. The Internet of Crap
  49. Final 2014 prediction: the end of the PC as we knew it
  50. Bill Gates and the non-prediction prediction
  51. Ten technology predictions for 2014
  52. Where’s that Black Swan when we need one?
  53. A Tree Falls in Reston

2013 94

  1. Call for 2014 predictions!
  2. RSA takes one for the team, but which team?
  3. Some thoughts on how a Grinch stole Target’s Christmas
  4. Gallows humor for the NSA privacy debate
  5. You may not want that Windows Bay Trail tablet after all
  6. My sister’s a quilter and Google mugged her!
  7. See you on the golf course, John, Cisco is in trouble
  8. Why Intel wants to be everyone’s chip maker
  9. Try editing your images in the cloud via Mainframe2
  10. Scarface: He’s got Boris Yeltsin eyes
  11. Amazon’s new graphical cloud helps make desktops obsolete
  12. The Google File System makes NSA’s hack blatantly illegal and they know it
  13. How Big Data is destroying the U.S. healthcare system
  14. Privacy is dead and here’s how
  15. Mainframe2 runs super-powerful Windows apps in the cloud
  16. Breaking Moore’s Law
  17. Abe fiddles while Fukushima leaks
  18. I have my doubts about Bitcoin
  19. How I Refresh my memory
  20. The Secret of iOS 7
  21. What if Marissa Mayer went to jail?
  22. Apple burnishes while we wait for another breakthrough
  23. Why Microsoft really bought Nokia
  24. I was, uh, wrong: Chromecast does what Google claims
  25. Advice 5 cents: The role of mentoring in Silicon Valley
  26. Microsoft, Ballmer, and the end of the PC era
  27. Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs somehow misses the whole point
  28. Eisenhower, Snowden and the military industrial complex
  29. Fulfilling customer requirements is a weapon at IBM
  30. Is cyber insurance AAA for data or another back door?
  31. The origins of DefCon
  32. Google ChromeCast — Fabulous product or fabulous demo?
  33. The New IBM — vampires in our midst
  34. So that’s how H-1B visa fraud is done!
  35. Georgia Tech’s $7000 polyester masters in computer science
  36. Edward Snowden is trying to be Daniel Ellsberg on Twitter
  37. Doug Engelbart, visionary
  38. IBM to customers: Your hand is staining my window
  39. Snowden and the NSA reflect a millennial climate change
  40. If it’s Ethernet versus Godzilla, then Godzilla is DOCSIS
  41. Father’s Day
  42. Better late than never
  43. Where’s Bob? Changing WordPress hosts.
  44. What Intel and AMD clean rooms could teach hospitals
  45. The nose knows
  46. Where have you gone, Engine Charlie?
  47. Cole Cringely on his ninth birthday
  48. The Exit Trap
  49. Amazon.com isn’t killing Best Buy: blame Best Buy IT
  50. Things are looking up for Google Glass
  51. How American Airlines lost its computer
  52. Two H-1B’s walk into a bar: more on the visa scam
  53. The Decline & Fall of IBM
  54. The terahertz revolution and local security
  55. Why elite marathoners don’t (yet) wear wristwatch mobile phones
  56. Stop sending me pennies — more bad news for PayPal
  57. We’re PayPal immortals whether we like it or not
  58. Cringely comes back from the dead… again!
  59. Accidental Empires, Chapter 17 — Do the Wave
  60. Accidental Empires, Chapter 16 — But Wait, There’s More!
  61. Accidental Empires, Chapter 15 — Future Computing
  62. Accidental Empires, Chapter 14 — Counter-Reformation
  63. Accidental Empires, Chapter 13 — Economics of Scale
  64. Accidental Empires, Chapter 12 — On the Beach
  65. Accidental Empires, Chapter 11 — Font Wars
  66. Accidental Empires, Chapter 10 — The Prophet
  67. Accidental Empires, Chapter 9 — Clones
  68. Accidental Empires, Chapter 8 — Software Envy
  69. The Startup Channel
  70. Accidental Empires, Chapter 7 — All IBM Stories are True
  71. Accidental Empires, Chapter 6 — Chairman Bill Leads the Happy Workers in Song
  72. Accidental Empires, Chapter 5 — Role Models
  73. Accidental Empires, Chapter 4 — Amateur Hour
  74. Accidental Empires, Chapter 3 — Why They Don’t Call It Computer Valley
  75. Accidental Empires, Part 8 (Chapter 2) — The Tyranny of the Normal Distribution
  76. Accidental Empires, Part 7 (Chapter 1d) — Our Nerds
  77. Accidental Empires, Part 6 (Chapter 1c) — The Airport Kid
  78. Accidental Empires, Part 5 (Chapter 1b)
  79. Accidental Empires, Part 4 (Chapter 1a) — The Demo God
  80. Accidental Empires, Part 3 — Preface to the original 1991 edition
  81. Accidental Empires, Part 2 — Preface to the 1996 edition
  82. Accidental Empires, Part 1 — Looking back at a golden era
  83. Accidental Empires Reboot
  84. I, Cringely version 3.01
  85. DMCA Smart phone Catch-22: Major de Coverley for Librarian of Congress!
  86. Not all smart people work at the X-Prize Foundation
  87. X-Prize Foundation defends their poorly-conceived Qualcomm Tricorder contest
  88. Qualcomm Tricorder X-Prize is another poorly conceived contest
  89. Apple’s challenges require leaving Steve Jobs behind
  90. Yes, Phil, there is an iPhone Mini
  91. Advance to the rear: Is military Win8 computing the future of computing?
  92. Silicon Valley conquers Hollywood, part 3 — think small, not big
  93. Silicon Valley conquers Hollywood, part 2 — There’s no business like show business
  94. In the land of the blind Krikorian could become king

2012 117

  1. Silicon Valley conquers Hollywood 2013 — Setting the scene
  2. Reagan and Newtown
  3. Instagram’s Exit Plan
  4. Dr. Al explains the so-called “so-called fiscal cliff”
  5. Feedburner is undead for a moment, so please resubscribe to I, Cringely
  6. Who’s your daddy? Intel swoons for Apple
  7. More stupid IBM tricks put customer data at risk
  8. Amoeba Music’s Vinyl Vaults is no Napster despite what musicians say
  9. Hear that? It’s HP founders Bill and Dave spinning in their graves
  10. Apple is greedy says Fallon Cringely
  11. While the Intel board was firing Paul Otellini they should have fired themselves, too
  12. JOBS Act crowdfunding is unlikely to help most startups
  13. Geek Idol: A Competition to Promote Competitiveness
  14. Bug or feature? eBay drops wildcard search
  15. The nanotech replicators are coming!
  16. Ad networks are killing the Internet. My answer is Cringely 3.0
  17. Think cloud computing saved you from Sandy? Think again.
  18. Steve Ballmer’s Dilemma
  19. On Win8 launch day a look back at Steve Ballmer, circa 2001
  20. What Americans don’t know about H-1B visas could hurt us all
  21. Don’t mess with IBM: one downside of suing a tech company that thinks like a law firm
  22. Want a cheap room in Phoenix? Apple cancels competing event
  23. So sue us! Why big companies like IBM aren’t afraid of H-1B lawsuits
  24. Off with their heads! Why financial regulation stopped working
  25. Steve Jobs came within a song of going to the Moon
  26. Clothing may be optional but bufferbloat isn’t
  27. LagBuster makes online games play faster — even Call of Duty
  28. Is the U.S. Startup Economy Failing?
  29. Muhammad v. YouTube
  30. Thunderbolt, on an iPhone 5?
  31. LinkedIn SNAFU
  32. Kindle Fire HD hurts Microsoft more than Apple
  33. An IPO minor league in Hong Kong for startups
  34. Ticked off: How stock market decimalization killed IPOs and ruined our economy
  35. Why hardly anyone in the U.S. economy feels prosperous anymore
  36. Windows 8, Users 0?
  37. What’s a WeJIT?
  38. JavaScript video technology only 17 years in the making
  39. Electric flight of fancy
  40. Click fraud the old fashioned way
  41. Cloudy with a chance of data loss
  42. A belt and suspenders for your cloud storage
  43. Facebook, Cringely and the devolution of the web
  44. YouTube’s Olympian Recovery
  45. Steve Jobs — The Lost Interview available for preorder on Amazon.com
  46. Apple and Samsung: brands at war
  47. YouTube might be the best place to watch the Olympics (if it doesn’t break)
  48. The DARPA Way
  49. Are Indian high schoolers manning your IBM help desk?
  50. How Marissa Mayer can still save Yahoo
  51. New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is no Sorkin hero
  52. What if Steve Jobs — The Lost Interview isn’t available in my country?
  53. Put LIBOR on Yahoo Groups
  54. IT class warfare — It’s not just IBM
  55. Steve Jobs — The Lost Interview is on iTunes, but don’t tell anyone
  56. Life after the personal computer
  57. Why YouTube isn’t the future of TV
  58. The tablet computer rumble
  59. I Hate Network Solutions!
  60. Surface tablet intro no Moses event for Microsoft
  61. An IT labor economics lesson from Memphis for IBM
  62. The crowdfunding bubble of 2013 part 3 — how to make it successful
  63. Death of the Mac Pro
  64. The crowdfunding bubble of 2013 part 2 — crooks and con men
  65. IPv6 rollout is a yawner (that’s good!)
  66. The crowdfunding bubble of 2013
  67. The dumbing down of Windows 8
  68. The next Japanese nuclear accident (it’s inevitable) will be even worse
  69. Google+ versus Facebook: It’s the apps, stupid!
  70. Why Facebook isn’t embarrassed by its IPO
  71. Facebook IPO defies Cringely (would you like that in BOLD?)
  72. What’s a Movie Cloud? That’s up to you
  73. Beginning of the end for bufferbloat
  74. Thanks for your support of Steve Jobs — The Lost Interview
  75. Steve Jobs — The Lost Interview returning to theaters
  76. By 2015 IBM will look like Oracle
  77. We’re all just lab rats to IBM
  78. Ten years have passed and there is still no cure for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
  79. How to fix IBM in a week
  80. Magical thinking at IBM
  81. Something’s rotten in IBM Dubuque
  82. Not your father’s IBM
  83. Watch out IBM!
  84. Microsoft AOL Patent Theater
  85. The Jack Tramiel we didn’t know
  86. Best Buy is Doomed
  87. A True Hollywood Story
  88. The $30 billion Social Security hack
  89. Linux 3.3: Finally a little good news for bufferbloat
  90. Computer History Day — Part 2
  91. Computer History Day — Part 1
  92. How to protect your home from Leprechauns
  93. Lessons from Redmond
  94. Intel may be dumb but they aren’t stupid
  95. Siri’s big brother from Google
  96. Yet another way China and Google are different
  97. Up in flames
  98. OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is damage control
  99. No Joy in YouTubeville
  100. Caution, train wreck in progress
  101. What the Dickens? Accidental Empires Rebooted
  102. Zuckerberg’s Complaint
  103. What would Sharon do?
  104. Class Dismissed: Even good students don’t always want to learn
  105. Hello, Mr. Chips
  106. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and other weird thoughts
  107. Siri may infringe old Excite patents
  108. Mamas don't let your babies grow up to see trade shows
  109. Prediction 8: No more predictions
  110. Prediction 7: A new Microsoft CEO
  111. Prediction 6: Thompson's no Yahoo
  112. Prediction 5: No IPO for Facebook
  113. Prediction #4: Motorola buys TiVO
  114. Prediction 3: Intel buys Qualcomm
  115. Prediction #2: Amazon and Bezos supplant Apple and Jobs
  116. Prediction #1: A new CEO for Apple
  117. What hath Bob wrought? Looking back at Cringely's 2011 predictions

2011 127

  1. There's no time like anytime
  2. Like shooting ducks in a barrel
  3. Why big companies can't change
  4. For Mobile OS's, Three's a Crowd
  5. The once and future WebOS
  6. Cloudy judgement at BAE Systems
  7. Apple looks for its checkbook
  8. Still wired after all these years
  9. Damage Control
  10. Silence is golden
  11. Intel is fit to be Thai'd
  12. Seeking a final resolution
  13. How to get a job after the Singularity comes
  14. Apple gets Siri-ous about TV
  15. Meg's Revenge
  16. The Steve Jobs Interview
  17. Remembering Dennis Ritchie
  18. The second coming of Java
  19. The Final Frontier — Part 2
  20. Unanswered Steve Jobs questions
  21. Steve Jobs
  22. The Final Frontier
  23. Kindle Fire: Take three tablets and call me in the morning
  24. Larry Page's Manhattan Project
  25. Why Brian Utley should be HP interim CEO
  26. Brian Utley (not Meg Whitman) for HP Interim CEO
  27. Cringely's second column on the firing of Leo Apotheker
  28. Net Flixup
  29. Truth About Fukushima Daiichi
  30. Ballmer's Last Stand
  31. What's a Yahoo to Do?
  32. To a Man With a Hammer: Some Thoughts on the Pentagon and World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks
  33. How Not to Run Yahoo
  34. Be a Hero, Barry
  35. Mortgage Reality Distortion Field
  36. Our Own Worst Enemies
  37. Cupertino Two-Step
  38. Is the Mac Pro dead?
  39. Losing the HP Way
  40. MotoGoogle
  41. Been there, done that: Private label newspaper tablets make no sense
  42. The Cringely Internet Civility Plan
  43. Apple's Money
  44. Internet Class Warfare
  45. Bandwidth caps are rate hikes
  46. Bufferbloat 2: The Need for Speed
  47. The Future of Hulu and U.S. TV
  48. The Decline and Fall of Facebook
  49. 700 MHz opportunity down the toilet (no, make that stolen)
  50. Entrepreneurial OCD
  51. All My Children a killer app?
  52. The flip side of cyber bullying
  53. Which domain registrar is best?
  54. The enemy of my enemy
  55. CBS steals my work
  56. Have you heard the one about Apple's data center?
  57. Intercontinental Ballistic App Store
  58. IBM didn't invent the personal computer but they don't know that.
  59. When Engineers Lie
  60. iCloud’s real purpose: kill Windows
  61. Stupid IT Tricks: Medical Records
  62. What Microsoft should do
  63. InsecureID: No more secrets?
  64. Steve Ballmer's Nightmare
  65. Charlie Ergen's War
  66. Netflix too big to fail?
  67. Google at Carson's Speed
  68. Google decides knowledge is power
  69. Jann Wenner is my hero
  70. Why Microsoft bought Skype
  71. What the heck is a Clickochet?
  72. How urban legends are born
  73. Til death do us part: Sony and the credit card companies
  74. Sony may be clueless in PSN hack
  75. Better late than never…
  76. Memo from the bleeding edge
  77. Sorry, wrong number
  78. Cyberpolice Academy
  79. Larry Page's running start: but is he running in the right direction?
  80. Purgatory at 37 degrees
  81. The Epsilon Syndrome
  82. Geeks like me: What's Engadget really worth?
  83. I told you so
  84. Plutonium is forever
  85. Shoe death
  86. IPV6 is coming (yeah, right)
  87. Ivan the Terrible?
  88. AT&T needs T-Mobile most for its WiFi
  89. Will AT&T buying T-Mobile make jailbroken and unlocked iPhones finally legal?
  90. Who ya gonna call? Supertanker!
  91. Hollywood's impending Internet revolution
  92. Is anything nuclear ever really super safe small and simple?
  93. Flea powder may be saving lives in Japan
  94. Towers of babble: Sprint probably ISN'T buying T-Mobile
  95. Big Bang Theory
  96. Fear of flying — Why the iPad 2 isn't even better
  97. Just shoot me
  98. Why Leo Apotheker will be fired from Hewlett Packard
  99. Attack of the Minis
  100. Major Jalloud
  101. The click of death
  102. Let them eat veggies: Obama has dinner with Steve
  103. AOL Hell
  104. Burning the ships at Nokia
  105. Rushing the net: Nokia's coming fight to the Finnish
  106. Ken Olsen and post-industrial computing
  107. Arianna Huffington, queen of all media
  108. Metternich and Mubarak
  109. Only an idiot would use Network Solutions e-mail. I am an idiot.
  110. Getting my GroupOn
  111. Bring me the head of Eric Schmidt!
  112. No white smoke yet in Cupertino
  113. Strangers in our midst
  114. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Watson
  115. Fool me once, shame on you…
  116. Verizon's iPhone story isn't so black and white
  117. 3Dud TV
  118. 2011 prediction #10: Apple buys Time Warner Cable
  119. 2011 prediction #9: Apple's Carolina strategy
  120. 2011 prediction #8: Cloudburst
  121. 2011 prediction #7: Microsoft is the new IBM
  122. 2011 prediction #6: Yahoo barfs
  123. 2011 prediction #5: Facebook forks
  124. 2011 prediction #4: Bufferbloat may be terrible, but your cable ISP won't fix it
  125. 2011 prediction #3: 1.8-inch and 3.5-inch disk drives will die
  126. 2011 Prediction #2: The white iPhone IS the Verizon iPhone
  127. 2011 predictions: One word — bufferbloat. Or is that two words?

2010 99

  1. And Then Along Comes Larry….
  2. You Can't Go Home Again
  3. The Trojan App
  4. How To Plug a Leak: Don't
  5. It's All Downhill from Here
  6. Ich Hasse Hausaufgaben (I Hate Homework)
  7. Predicting the Future
  8. Gilmore is Gone
  9. Cyber Rumble
  10. Dog Days
  11. Edifice Complex
  12. Verizon LTE iPhone4V
  13. Follow the Money
  14. 3D and Me
  15. Wikileaked
  16. The Decline and Fall of E-Mail
  17. Rhythm and Noise
  18. No Life Insurance for Bull Riders
  19. Any Port in a Storm
  20. Act Two: The Cringely Startup Tour Gets Back on the Road
  21. The Chinese Decade
  22. License to Print Money
  23. Energy Past, Energy Future
  24. AOL+Yahoo is a Jealousy Game
  25. Show Me the Money
  26. Spies Like Us
  27. Crunch Time at AOL
  28. Google's Pound of Flesh
  29. Motivating Miss Daisy
  30. Enemy Mine
  31. How Much is Enough?
  32. Where's the Beef?
  33. It's a Sony
  34. Trolling for Dollars
  35. When IT Fails
  36. Little Geeks on the Prairie
  37. Too Big to Fail
  38. Stupid CEO Tricks
  39. When Men Were Boys and Boys Were Stupid
  40. Dragging Our Asses to Boulder
  41. When Cookies Fail…
  42. Meet Us in Kansas City
  43. Missing in Action
  44. Slouching Toward Sunnyvale
  45. So Steve Jobs walks into a bar…..
  46. Apple Goes Semi-Pro (Part Two)
  47. Apple Goes Semi-Pro (Part One)
  48. Doing the Right Thing
  49. I'm with stupid
  50. BP AdWords cashectomy
  51. Imperial Oil
  52. A Different Kind of Love Story
  53. Paper Chase
  54. Semi-Smart
  55. Carried Away
  56. Death by Foxconn
  57. Let's Get Small
  58. LifeBlocked
  59. TV after YouTube
  60. The Gate is Closed
  61. Question Time
  62. Book 'em, Steve-O
  63. Dry Powder
  64. Stevie Hawking and Me
  65. So a Guy Walks into a Bar…..
  66. Get a Life
  67. Why Twitter is Worth More Than Facebook (At Least to Me)
  68. Masters Tournament
  69. Turn Your Head and Cough: The Startup Tour Questionnaire is Coming!
  70. The Last Ed Roberts Story
  71. Terminal Man
  72. Why Your Favorite App Isn't Yet Available on the iPad
  73. A Tale of Two H1-Bs
  74. Collaborize, Rinse, Repeat
  75. Is There a Google News Blacklist?
  76. What He Said: Cisco Steps Up Its Router Game
  77. Is Yahoo Mail Broken?
  78. The 94 Percent Solution
  79. Some Rules of the Road: 200 Nominations in the First Week!
  80. 100 Startups and Growing Fast!
  81. Fire in the Hole! Another New Gig for Bob
  82. The Smell of Entrepreneurism in the Morning
  83. No Flash in the Pad
  84. Google's Walk in the PARC
  85. The Cringely 2010 (Not in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour
  86. Authentication is Secondary
  87. Moonset
  88. iPad, Therefore I Am
  89. Apple Tablet Twit!
  90. The Problem With Big Media: Why One Tablet is Not Enough
  91. Mobile 2010 Predictions: Apple, Google & RIM, Oh My!
  92. IBM 2010: Customers in Revolt
  93. Google 2010: What Makes the Muskrat Guard His Musk?
  94. Apple 2010: More of the Same and Blu-Ray, too
  95. When Is Your Bank Not Your Bank?
  96. Predict Me, I'm from the Government
  97. Microsoft 2010 SP1
  98. Nexus None
  99. Remembering Y2K

2009 84

  1. Fallon's Getting a Dell!
  2. New Cringely Posts on AOL
  3. The Next White Whale
  4. New Improved MS Word 2007!
  5. DVD Is Dead
  6. The Day AT&T Learned Moore's Law (it's not when you think it was)
  7. FedEx Kinkos Won't Print Our Christmas Card
  8. AOL Real Estate
  9. Intel Will Buy nVIDIA
  10. Ask and Ye Shall Receive
  11. Three Simple Rules for Stealing My Money
  12. Chrome and Chrome, What is Chrome?
  13. Pictures in Our Heads
  14. Tossed in Space
  15. News Corp to Offer Plaid Stamps!
  16. Brett Versus Bob: Taking Net Neutrality Personally
  17. What Goes Around: Teledesic 2.0
  18. Why Windows 7 Costs so Much
  19. Silence isn't Golden
  20. No Joy in Mudville
  21. Apple and the Future of Publishing — Part Two
  22. Apple and the Future of Publishing – Part One
  23. Love for Sale
  24. The Cybersecurity Myth
  25. All Circuits Aren't Busy
  26. Neutrality Begins at Home
  27. Logan's Run
  28. The People's Republic of Google
  29. Women and Children First
  30. Burn Baby Burn
  31. Change of Life
  32. Game Boys
  33. Economic Bloggers
  34. Neutron Bomb
  35. Is Technology Evil?
  36. Back in Orbitz
  37. (Mal)practice Makes Perfect
  38. Google Taketh Away
  39. Smith/Krugman Part 2 (of 3)
  40. The Adam Smith & Paul Krugman Show
  41. Medical Records R Us
  42. Falling Out of Orbitz
  43. The Waitress Who Ignored Cronkite
  44. Who Ya Gonna Call? App Busters!
  45. Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me
  46. Google/Adobe? No.
  47. Freshjerky.com
  48. The Mouse that Roared
  49. Is Blu-Ray a Failure?
  50. Teens Don't Twitter
  51. Atomic Warfare
  52. Collateral Damage
  53. Remember Billy Mitchell
  54. WAAS Up?
  55. The Future of Television (part II)
  56. The Future of Internet TV (in America)
  57. The Sequel Dilemma
  58. Sunset
  59. The Global Village
  60. Wall Street and Main Street Don’t Cross
  61. Bob on Video!
  62. The Sun Also Sets
  63. Geek Chic: Google’s Culture of Efficiency
  64. Three Mile Island Memories
  65. Rise of the Machines
  66. Bowling for Dollars
  67. Parrot Secrets
  68. The Not So Bad Bank
  69. 32 Years Down the Toilet: Neokast 2.0
  70. The Neokast Mystery
  71. So THAT’S Why He’s So Interested in Mortgages!
  72. And a Network Engineer Shall Lead Them
  73. Where's Steve?
  74. The Bentonville Mafia
  75. Power to the People
  76. Wall Street Can't Count
  77. Yahoo Should Buy Microsoft
  78. Microsoft Has PMS
  79. Access Denied: How to Defend Your Systems from an Inside Job
  80. Bob the Impaler
  81. Don’t Worry about Apple
  82. How to End the Recession
  83. The Coming DTV Nightmare
  84. Cringely suffers from gray cell imbalance

2008 6

  1. Don't be a Facebook whore
  2. The Missing Link
  3. Have a Buoyant Holiday!
  4. My Other Life
  5. Apple, MacWorld and Steve Jobs – the Wal-Mart Connection
  6. Surviving 2009