Network World columns

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2005

see "Edited" for the version that ran in the paper.

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• 2005-01-10: Predictions with the world in mind( p 26) Edited

Predictions about the upcoming year

• 2005-01-17: Public nannycams ( p 28 ) Edited

Easy to find cameras on the Internet 

• 2005-01-24: A handful of unix ( p 26 ) Edited

The Mac mini

• 2005-01-31: Is it threat or availability? ( p 26 ) Edited

Is anything impacting music downloads? 

• 2005-02-07: An RFID warning shot ( p 24 ) Edited

NIST reports they can read RFIDs at 30 feet

• 2005-02-14: Oedipus techs ( p ) Edited

Why would anyone want to buy AT&T?

• 2005-02-21: The kids were right, school is a prison ( p 22 ) Edited

RFIDs in schools

• 2005-02-28: Dumber decisions, safer world? ( p 30 ) Edited

ChoicePoint's security problems

• 2005-03-07: A personal touch ( p 26 ) Edited

Congress-people impacted by a data breach.

• 2005-03-14: Unblocking pipes ( p ) Edited

Telephone companies blocking VoIP & the FCC.

• 2005-03-21: Just doing it's job ( p 28 ) Edited

The NSA as Internet traffic cop.

• 2005-03-28: Refusal, ignorance, arrogance or PR? ( p 32 ) Edited

French news service Agence France Presse vs. Google

• 2005-04-04: Implications of an improving Internet ( p 22 ) Edited

The Internet is getting better, what does that mean to the need for QoS controls?

• 2005-04-11: Forgetting the public future ( p 30 ) Edited

DARPA cutting back on basic research support.

• 2005-04-18: A target in your pocket ( p 30 ) Edited

The dangers of RFID passports

• 2005-04-25: Big problems and little horror stories ( p 40 ) Edited

The immorality of data brokers.

• 2005-05-02: Forecasts for double or nothing ( p 36 ) Edited

Telling the weather service to stop providing service.

• 2005-05-09: Maybe it is mulish stupidity after all ( p 26 ) Edited

More on RFID passports.

• 2005-05-16: Protecting the past ( p 26 ) Edited

The FCC's broadcast flag tossed out by the courts.

• 2005-05-23: A not-all-powerful plan of action ( p 32 ) Edited

New York City's telcom plan.

• 2005-05-30: An inherent conflict of interest ( p 28 ) Edited

Microsoft's anti-virus efforts

• 2005-06-06: 'Death of Microsoft,' compressed GIF at 11 ( p 26 ) Edited

Is Microsoft under threat from small cheap computers?

• 2005-06-13: A point solution in a broad space ( p 32 ) Edited

Narrow laws in an area requiring broad thinking.

• 2005-06-20: Is there only a Googlezon in our future ( p 32 ) Edited

Speculations on the future of newspapers.

• 2005-06-27: The winner so far: CardSystems Solutions ( p 63 ) Edited

Companies competing to see who can expose more of your secrets.

• 2005-07-04: Advertising arrogance or stupidity ( web only ) Edited

Major companies using adware or spyware.

• 2005-07-11: A meaningless win? ( p 24 ) Edited

The long term non-importance of the Grockster decision.

• 2005-07-18: Continuing deceptions ( p 24 ) Edited

The FCC's misleading stats on broadband deployment.

• 2005-07-25: Conclusions based on isolated data ( p 28 ) Edited

Misunderstanding VoIP's future.

• 2005-08-01: Time to shred that MasterCard? ( p 30 ) Edited

MasterCard forgiving blatant violations of its own rules.

• 2005-08-08: Making Verizon giddy ( p 26 ) Edited

Telcom "reform" targeted at helping incumbent telephone companies.

• 2005-08-15:Why wait for congress? ( p 24 ) Edited

FCC getting ahead of congress.

• 2005-08-22: The fools gold ring of safety ( p 24 ) Edited

Councilman wiretapping decision revisited.

• 2005-08-29: Who controls the Net? ( p 24 ) Edited

Can the WTO tell the US to not outlaw Internet gambling?

• 2005-09-05: Never met a technology they didn't hate ( p 26 ) Edited

The copyright industry and new technology.

• 2005-09-12: A minor outage ( p 34 ) Edited

The impact of an outage of my Internet service.

• 2005-09-19: Cerf moves up the stack ( p 34 ) Edited

Vint Cerf moves to Google.

• 2005-09-26: Misunderstanding the fundamentals ( p 39 ) Edited

The telcom reform bill in the US House.

• 2005-10-03: Sleep paralysis and the phone biz. ( p 34 ) Edited

Phone companies seeing the Internet as the work of aliens.

• 2005-10-10: More questions than answers. ( p 40 ) Edited

The FCC's order extending wiretapping to the Internet is confusing.

• 2005-10-17: Still more questions about the FCC order. ( p 34 ) Edited

More confusion in the FCC's wiretap-the-Internet order.

• 2005-10-24: Apple's unnoticed announcement? ( p 28 ) Edited

What was Apple's most important announcement when it announced the video iPod?

• 2005-10-31: Family jewels to go ( p 36 ) Edited

Important data left on old disk drives.

• 2005-11-07: Commenting on the DMCA, an exercise in frustration? ( p ) Edited

Open comment period for parts of the DMCA, but why bother?.

• 2005-11-14:Sony's anti-piracy 'khesterex thath' ( p 32 ) Edited

Sony's messup on DRM.

• 2005-11-21: A telcom regulation pipe dream. ( p 34 ) Edited

If I were the regulatory king.

• 2005-11-28: Internet governance: A chatty whimper. ( p 28 ) Edited

The WSIS result is more of the same.

• 2005-12-05: Pity the poor telephone company? ( p 34 ) Edited

Is it a good time to be a phone company?

• 2005-12-12: A new face not unlike the old ( p 30 ) Edited

The "new" AT&T.

• 2005-12-19: Carbonaceous computers at Christmas ( p 26 ) Edited

French copyright proposals.