I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBSI, Cringely is the blog of Robert X. Cringely. Copyright 2006 PBS Online.What Did You Say- August 29, 2008 Like a few million other people I recently bought an iPhone 3G. But unlike a few million other people I bought TWO of them -- one for my young and lovely wife. That puts me in the rare position to actually speak from experience about a current networking issue: what's the deal with these iPhones Is it the phone or the network that is causing problems And the answer is: both. Our experience with the iPhone 3G is not good, though not terrible. It is a fantastic device, if flawed. The main flaw...http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080829_005402.html Leading Men- August 23, 2008 Leading indicators are measurements that change over time and suggest future trends for important second-order results like population growth and economic development. Economists in particular are often looking for indicators that have been known historically to lead the overall economy. If unemployment goes down, for example, it is a good bet that shortly thereafter income will rise and the economy will improve. It's for this very reason, then, that economists and Wall Street fund managers..http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080822_005393.html Frontier Daze- August 16, 2008 One of the great strengths of the Internet as a communication and entertainment medium has always been its lack of security, a fact that seems to pass over the heads of many "experts" today. Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf could easily have added robust security to TCPIP, but they deliberately chose not to with the idea that innovation would be encouraged by making the Internet a wide-open space. It wasn't that they prohibited security, but pushed it up the stack, effectively making it other people's...http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080815_005385.html What Goes Around Comes Around- August 7, 2008 Editor's Note As many readers have reported, we have had difficulties in recent weeks both posting the current column and especially posting reader comments. These problems are not unique to I, Cringely, but affect all PBS blogs based on the Moveable Type platform. Architecture changes are in the works as well as an entirely new version of Moveable Type that we hope will shortly fix these problems. Until then please bear with us. Companies have their own personalities, generally adopted...http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080807_005369.html The Eyes Have It- August 1, 2008 So little real information leaks out of Apple these days that we tech pundits tend to jump on any crumb we can get and munch it to death. That's certainly the case with this week's story about Apple possibly dumping Intel chipsets for the new MacBooks expected to be announced in September. What's funny to me is that the answer to what's REALLY happening has been in front of us all for more than a year. Here's how this mess of a story got started. On Monday, July 21st Apple Chief Financial...http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080801_005339.html |