Network World columns

2010   

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

• 2010-01-13: AT&T to FCC: Time to end yesterday's network  Edited

Is it time to turn off the (old) phone network?

• 2010-02-02: Apple iPad: A stretch iPod touch with a business model Edited

Apple is trying a new idea -- let copyright owners show how dumb they are.

• 2010-02-17: NBC Olympic coverage: Is the Internet the enemy?  Edited

NBC again fails to make meaningful use of the Internet in its Olympic coverage

• 2010-03-03: Internet freedom and security  Edited

It's already been a busy year in the area of Internet freedom and security. 

• 2010-03-17: It does not take a village -- or a country? Edited

Who are we fighting in the cyberwar, if anyone? 

• 2010-03-31: SCO Group: Die Hard 17  Edited

Is this (finally) the end for the unlamented SCO Group?

• 2010-04-14: Comcast vs. the FCC: Predictable loss for a fair Internet  Edited

The courts have spoken - the FCC overstepped its authority.

• 2010-04-26: ACTA: No longer secret but still plenty to worry about  Edited

Will the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement be good for Internet or for you or me? 

• 2010-05-17: FCC's 'third way': Trying to be partially pregnant?  Edited

Net neutrality opponents in full, and misleading, fury over FCC proposal, but that does not mean there are not things to worry about.

• 2010-06-01: Can Facebook privacy be simple? Edited

Pondering whether Facebook's stated goal of making privacy controls simple can ever succeed.

• 2010-06-15: SCO: So die already! Edited

Yet another legal defeat should mean the end for the SCO Group, but will it?

• 2010-07-07: Supreme Court on patents: "less than pellucid" Edited

The US Supreme Court failed to help clarify what can be pateneted.

• 2010-07-21: iPhone 4: Ranting about almost a problem?  Edited

Irrational behavior all around about the Apple iPhone 4's antenna problems.

• 2010-08-03: The price of free Internet: a piece of your soul  Edited

You think Google knows too much about you? Internet tracking companies know far more.

• 2010-08-16: Google/Verizon: Will a parallel non-Internet help the 'Net?  Edited

Is it a good idea to let the phone companies deploy an Internet-free "service"?.

• 2010-09-10: Getting close to an end of the Internet  Edited

The Internet is finally about to run out of IPv4 addresses, but IPv6

will keep it thriving

• 2010-09-20: Internet privacy conflicts  Edited

Web sites selling information about teenagers is OK in the U.S., but Europe has a different opinion.

• 2010-10-05: Gold in white space.  Edited

The FCC's white space decision significantly increases the radio spectrum available for unlicensed computer communications.

• 2010-10-22: Apple: Still pushing industry forward  Edited

Apple's OS X Lion and the Macbook Air point the way.

• 2010-11-02: Ray Ozzie: Painting a cloudy future for Microsoft?  Edited

Microsoft in a "post-PC" world.

• 2010-11-17: The Beatles on iTunes: I want to hold your bits  Edited

The news media frenzy over the Beatles (finally) making it to iTunes.

• 2010-12-01: WikiLeaks is not the actual problem Edited

Why was the leaker able to download so much data without causing an alarm?.               

• 2010-12-13: Goodbye Internet, we hardly knew ye?  Edited

Governments trying to control the Internet.