Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
... hog demanding that taxpayers solve its energy cost problems might come off as, well, evil. Real Dan Lyons Web Site » Blog Archive World’s biggest energy hog wants taxpayers to spend trillions so it can have cheaper electricity «
Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
A bad PR week for cloud computing, with Larry Ellison, Richard Stallman, and Dan Lyons expressing doubts... For the first time ever, I agree with something Richard Stallman says. See here . In a nutshell, he says the cloud is all about taking away your freedom and locking you into long-term contracts that you can’t get out of and which will exploit you terribly, which is why Google and others...
Beet.TV (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Dan Lyons, formerly known as the Fake Steve Jobs, and now a columnist for Newsweek, showed up the Technology Review's EmTech08 conference and wasn't too taken with the panel on social media moderated by Robert Scoble. Not...
Churbuck.com (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
... asking me to help them hack their way onto the corporate networks with Vista. It’s pretty easy. Dan Lyons: A Gloomy Vista for Microsoft | Newsweek Daniel Lyons | Techtonic Shifts | Newsweek.com .
MSNBC.com: Newsweek Columnists: Ste (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
Hiring a TV star from the 1990s to fix Vista's reputation only adds to the impression that Microsoft is in a time warp.
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
In Dan Lyons's Fake Steve Jobs blog, he played the Apple CEO as a cynic who borrowed the cult-creation techniques of old-world and new-age mystics in order to more efficiently exploit a workforce and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
MacDailyNews (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Dan Lyons the former Forbes editor whose brilliant Web parodies of Apple’s CEO entertained tech enthusiasts...
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Dan Lyons the former Forbes editor whose brilliant Web parodies of Apple’s CEO entertained tech enthusiasts for two years, publicly apologized Friday to those who complain that he’s not funny since he stopped writing as his alter ego, the Fake Steve Jobs. “I really miss him,” said Lyons, speaking in New York City at the Web [...]
MacDailyNews (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
"As I read Dan Lyons' Newsweek tome this week about the evolving Big Bad Apple and how it is becoming a Microsoft monopolist in training...
Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Timely snapshot from Dan Lyons See here . No killer app. No consumer focus. And it’s open source rather than having a vertical stack like BlackBerry and iPhone. In other words, it’s the desktop Linux of mobile phones — a solution in search of a problem that doesn’t exist. Or, to put it another way, Android was indeed created to help solve a problem, but it’s not a problem that customers have,...
Chuqui 3.0 (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Dan Lyons takes off the mask and throws down the gauntlet with Apple :: Ryan Block: Maybe it’s just me, but I think Dan did a much better job at cutting to the heart of what makes Cupertino tick when he was doing so with subversive parody. Trust me, there are many, MANY things to groan about Apple over — its obsessive control in all aspects of business, its reluctance to try genuinely new markets...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Steve Jobs's latest Applefest was a nonevent, with nothing more to show than updates to the iPod line and iTunes software. But the cheers at the glorified press conference yesterday were as blustery... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Ryan Block (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
I have no doubt in my mind that Steve truly is the cunning monopolist Dan Lyons says he is, but his debut article as Steven Levy’s successor at Newsweek turned out to be a drive-by foot-shooting of dubious arguments and logic. First, Dan sets up Vudu as an example of the little company trampled underfoot by [...]
Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Former Fake Steve/Real Dan Lyons has published his first Newsweek article -- an excerpt: The really scary thing about Apple is that it doesn't just make hit products—it controls entire ecosystems. Just as Microsoft controls both the operating system and the applications that run on top of it, Apple owns popular hardware platforms (iPod, iPhone) and operates the only store that can sell music,...
Ben Poole (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
He may have moved on from Forbes , but Dan Lyons continues to demonstrate what a class act he is: Well it’s a weird situation. I can’t really get into this but people close to him [Steve Jobs] have been saying for quite a while (before the appearance onstage) that he’s really sick. And someone who saw him last week says he still looks like shit. Nice. I’m no Steve Jobs fanboy, and he’s big...
