Network World columns

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2002

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

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• 2002-01-07: How new a year?( p 22) Edited

Little real change predicted for 2002.

• 2002-01-14: Fantasy lawmaking ( p 22 ) Edited

Suggestions for anti-spam laws. 

• 2002-01-21: The end of a bad idea ( p 28 ) Edited

Enron's bandwidth trading.

• 2002-01-28: A trustworthy computer company ( p 32 ) Edited

Microsoft and trustworthy computing.

• 2002-02-04: A technology travelogue ( p 32 ) Edited

Looking at the sights seeing technology lessons.

• 2002-02-11: Crustacean security ( p 18 ) Edited

Security is not all about good walls.

• 2002-02-18: Fast bits to all of us ( p 30 ) Edited

The FCC's broadband deployment stats.

• 2002-02-25: The FCC and fast bits ( p 26 ) Edited

The FCC's broadband deployment stats, continued.

• 2002-03-04: MPEG-4 as a forgotten footnote ( p 28 ) Edited

Greed vs. common sense with MPEG-4.

• 2002-03-11: Larry and the Supremes ( p 40) Edited

Appealing the Sonny Bono copyright extension law.

• 2002-03-18: Silly question: Are the carriers smart enough? ( p ) Edited

Learning from DoCoMo's iMode.

• 2002-03-25: Fights between things that never were ( p 26 ) Edited

Extending Celebrity Boxing to the technology space.

• 2002-04-01: Dreams in a box ( p 26 ) Edited

Set top boxes as money conduits.

• 2002-04-08: Protecting PCs from being useful ( p 32 ) Edited

Senator Hollings's attempt to eviscerate general purpose computers.

• 2002-04-15: Your confession is good for us ( p 30 ) Edited

Please fess-up to breakins so we can learn how to fix things.

• 2002-04-22: Instant Messaging - problems of success ( p 36 ) Edited

The requirement (not the need) to monitor instant messaging.

• 2002-04-29: Subscription only? ( p 28 ) Edited

Copyright fees for Internet radio.

• 2002-05-06: Automatic and thus meaningless ( p 38 ) Edited

Automatically appended "legal" trainers.

• 2002-05-13: Fast forward as theft ( p 32 ) Edited

Turner TV executive equates fast forwarding video tapes with theft.

• 2002-05-20: Did you expect an easy answer? ( p 24 ) Edited

Protecting kids from porn in ineffective ways.

• 2002-05-27: A model of the frustration ( p 32) Edited

Spam is becoming a real problem,

• 2002-06-03: 'net radio update: sanity may yet prevail ( p 32 ) Edited

Maybe better news on copyright fees for Internet radio. 

• 2002-06-10: Pretty is as pretty does ( p 22 ) Edited

The threat of HTML email.

• 2002-06-17: SuperCom as an indicator ( p 32) Edited

IP Telephony as a leading indicator and ATM as a trailing one.

• 2002-06-24: Fighting terrorism with obscurity ( p 36) Edited

The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution saying that open source supports terrorism.

• 2002-07-01: The final (for some) report ( p ) Edited

Not so good news about copyright fees for Internet radio.

• 2002-07-08: The technology is irrelevant ( p 18 ) Edited

VCs funding technology-free pipe dreams.

• 2002-07-15: Not quite independence day ( p 21 ) Edited

Microsoft's Palladium project.

• 2002-07-22: You do not have to lose money ( p 28 ) Edited

Saving money by using the web.

• 2002-07-29: The bits at the end of the rainbow ( p 20 ) Edited

Wireless Internet.

• 2002-08-05: The center of the universe ( p 30 ) Edited

A bill permitting the copyright gang to be thugs.

• 2002-08-12: Can the DMCA hide SSNs? ( p 24 ) Edited

HP threatening security whistleblowers instead of fixing the problems.

• 2002-08-19: Good guys wearing black hats ( p 28 ) Edited

US Cybersecurity Czar Richard Clarke at the Black Hat Conference.

• 2002-08-26: Giving away their future ( p 28 ) Edited

Phone carriers trying hard to die.

• 2002-09-02: Are numbers prime? ( p 22 ) Edited

ENUM and the value of phone numbers.

• 2002-09-09: A happy geek ( p 32 ) Edited

Apple OSX 10.2 -- real UNIX with a real GUI.

• 2002-09-16: An incremental world ( p 24 ) Edited

Little real innovation these days.

• 2002-09-23: Fixated on faces ( p ) Edited

How important is seeing the other guy?

• 2002-09-30: What are they so worried about? ( p 24 ) Edited

Opponents to UltraWideBand.

• 2002-10-07: Sadly predictable ( p 22 ) Edited

Wall Street Journal section on wireless ignores privacy.

• 2002-10-14: The rest of peer-to-peer ( p 32 ) Edited

A report from the GRID conference.

• 2002-10-21: All the news fit to find ( p 28 ) Edited

Google's new news service.

• 2002-10-28: Does it hurt to be castigated? ( p 32 ) Edited

Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer gets pissed at Microsoft PR people.

• 2002-11-04: Endangered silos? ( p 24 ) Edited

Regulators protecting position and revenue of incumbent carriers.

• 2002-11-11: Purina paranoid chow? ( p 38 ) Edited

Strange things in the Microsoft anti-trust agreement.

• 2002-11-18: Panamanian platypus ( p 40 ) Edited

Panama choosing old telephony over new.

• 2002-11-25: Prediction: fast is not everything ( p 28 ) Edited

Flexibility may be as important as speed in IP-based storage.

• 2002-12-02: A resilient architecture ( p 28 ) Edited

A review of a report on the Internet on 9/11/2001.

• 2002-12-09: What fools these mortals be ( p 32 ) Edited

Lessons about security attacks using social engineering.

• 2002-12-16: Has the rainbow landed? ( p 26 ) Edited

Wireless Internet from Cometa Networks, maybe.