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I read a lot,
so you don't have to. Below are links to my periodic reports on
interesting news articles and press releases on the Web. For an
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July 12, 2006 – Can Fixed Wireless Broadband Return from the Dead?, The Senate Doesn’t Get it, Sick of Email?, Invisibility Possibility, That ATM May Not Be As Secure As You Think, Microsoft to Control Racecars
June 22 , 2006 – Net Switzerland in Danger, Hang on a Nanosec. Let Me Get That Info, Cyber Best Practices, What if it was the "Microsoft iPod"?, Windows Can Drink, Free Wireless Everywhere?
May 19, 2006 – It’s Audit Time. Do You Know Where Your Email Is?, We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Horses!, Things Not In the Constitution, It’s Been 21 Years of Windows, Is Your Telephone Company Too Gay?, This Can’t Be True, Can It?, RFID Viruses – Another Architecture Security Failure
April 27, 2006 – You’re Hit! What Next? . . . A Slight Return, Join the Alert SNS Reader Group!, From SNS 2001 - Buzzword Alert
March 03 , 2006 – VoIP Security Is Horrible, Sixty Years of Computing, The Ultimate Gaming Machine, BMW Gets Google Death Penalty, It’s Good to be King?, Minorities Excluded from Government Grant System!, English v. Angel
February 16, 2006 – AOL Taxing Email?, Top 10 Funny Spammer Names, FISH of the Day
February 07, 2006 – High Tech Food, Low Tech Science, GoogleWatching: Google and Skype Invest in a Wi-Fi Startup, Every OS Sucks, What Exactly Has Microsoft Contributed?
February 02, 2006 – REAL Pen Computing, Feedback for ME, Well, What Happened on January 6th, I’m Riding on Sunshine, Waa-ooh! I Can’t Promote
January 04, 2006 – Replace Your Boat Anchor, Top 10 Funny Spammer Names, Happy Time of Year, FISH of the Day, Non-Reality-Based Thinking, Tracking the Hegemony, RFID Implants Apparently Creep Out One of Their Proponents, Answers to the You ain’t cultured yet 'less you can Quiz
December 01, 2005 – Seriously, What’s Google Up To?, New Feature: Top 10 Funny Spammer Names, Get a Human on the Phone, Adults at 50?, So You Think You’re Smart?, Wireless Pioneer Pooh-Poohs Wireless Broadband, Wacky Laptop Tricks, Washington Post Redefinitions 2005, OK, One More FISH – the Effect of Peanut Butter
October 14, 2005 – Why Do We Have Personal Computers?, FISH Wraps Newspaper, I’m Not Above FISHing, Mensa Brain Teasers, Has Your Site Been Cloned?
October 6, 2005 – What’s Google Up To?, Error Breeding Error, Dotcom Bust a Conspiracy?
September 29, 2005 – Mainlining Broadband, You Saw it Here First, VoIP Gathers Momentum, DSL Prices Drop: Competition? You’re Soaking In It, Stupid Name Alert
September 19, 2005 – Success has many fathers; failure has many analysts, BuzzKill, Comedy is Easy. Predicting the Future is Hard, Sweating the Small Stuff, ASP, Where is Thy Sting?, Flash vs. Content, Microsoft Soundbite Security, FindForward Can Spot That Meme, Dear Mr. Interjections R. Slatternly . . ., Forward to Everyone You Know
September 15, 2005 – No Longer Free, Enlightening and Frightening for Half a Decade, Alert SNS Reader Hall of Fame, Support SNS, No Telling How Long This Will Remain True
September 1, 2005 – Bits & Pieces Again, Stop the Credit Card Madness, Cell Phone Do Not Call List Hoax, Don’t Answer the Boss’ Email, You’re Famous!, Verizon Expands Broadband Wireless, Plenty of IT jobs, Production Nanotubes, Indications of the Decline of Western Civilization, Track Sex Offenders Online, Hold On a Sec . . . I Gotta Go Make . . . Some Electricity, Palm a Turncoat?, Nano for Power, US Eclipsed by Third World on Wireless, Spamming Anti-Spammer, Here Come Nano Frankenfoods, Nano Hydrogen for Power, Flogging Vlogs
July 18, 2005 – Bits & Pieces, Human TV, Real Personal Radio, Dated Metaphor Alert, Get the Internet Picture, Really Big Monopoly, A Raid on a Really Big Monopoly, They Doth Protest Too Much, Microsoft Asks Crackers for Help, Tivo Anywhere, Google – It’s Bigger Than All of Us, Quantum Crypto Gets Practical, Money for Old Magazines, Advertising in Your Face, Now That’s Advertising!, Random Bonus Bit: Apropos of Nothing
July 5, 2005 – Just a Random Hoax, Hedwig and the Angry Half Hour, Why Go to Bangalore When Fargo Will Do?, Get Perpendicular, When Public Information Can Hurt
June 28, 2005 – A Different Kind of Outsourcing – Noshoring, I'd Rather Be Lucky Than Good, Privacy, Economics, and Price Discrimination on the Internet, Geeks Are Doin' It For Themselves
June 06, 2005 – You Have No Privacy. Get Over It!, Cat Update, Nanotech Applications
April 27, 2005 – Contribute to SNS or I Will Kill My Cat!, Cyborgs on the Horizon, More Exploitation and Net Begging, Things You Thought You Knew How to Do, Things That Make Your Skin Crawl, Blast From the Past: Style vs. Substance
April 15, 2005 – Yub-a-Nub-Dub, a Mall in the Web, iPod in the Classroom, WiMAX at 100 mph
April 06, 2005 – Something New in IT Market Research - Real Data, The Raw File, Anti-Laser Contact Lenses, Really Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspot, Nannycams Gone Wild
December 03, 2004 – The Zeroes at ZeroDegrees, The Raw File, Speaking of Portals
May 03, 2004 – Alert SNS Reader Follow Ups, The Raw File, A Chicken at Your Service, Windows Features Better TCO?, Microsoft Software “More Secure,” According to Microsoft, What’s Google Up To?, Your House is Smarter Than a Vintage Bug, Keeping Evil Wi-Fi Spirits at Bay
March
19, 2004 – Easter Egg in BMW Software, Shameless Self-Promotion
Dept., Comment on the CAN-SPAM Act, Vendor Solves Swiss Cheese
Humvee Problem, Wal-Mart Already Using RFID
March
15, 2004 – Past Their Expiration Date, Throwing Stones at
Windows (programmers), Catch the Bzz, Outside In Wi-Fi, Spammers
Fight Back With Porn, Who’s Using Your Wi-Fi? Social Networking
the Latest Rage, Older Workers In Demand, Who’s Spying On You?
October
29, 2003 – RFID Gathers Momentum, Windows OS Joke Redux, VoWLAN
on PDAs, Spam Filtering Makes Online Newslettering Hell, It Still
Makes Me Laugh, Illinois Luddites Single Out Educational Wi-Fi,
Believe It Or Not: Kabul Cyber Cafés Flourish
September
08, 2003 – I’m (Still) In Pieces, Bits and Pieces, Windows
OS Joke, TW to Drop AOL?, Take This Quiz, Wi-Fi Hotspot Wave Spreading,
Wi-Fi Picture Frames, Code Reuse Causes Embarrassment, Single
Use Digital Cameras, Free Nanotube White Paper
July
30, 2003 – I’m In Pieces, Bits and Pieces, Bigger Is Better,
Adwise, Book Piracy Getting Bigger, Sprint PCS Announces Wi-Fi
Service, Wi-Fi to Catch Fixed-Line Broadband by 2008, Out of This
World Backup Plan, No Security Like Stupid Security, Spam Filters
Are Annoying, Cometa Struggling, Nanalyze This!
July
08, 2003 – The Cheap Revolution, Part 4, Off-Shoring May Not
Be As Cheap, Of Course, I Can’t Win, From the “I Told You So”
Department
June
18, 2003 – The Cheap Revolution, Part 3, The Last SNS Was
Spam, 802.11g Standard Ratified, Computing On Tap Not the Next
Big Thing, Wal-Mart Requiring RFID Tags, RFID for Money?
June
10, 2003 – Nothing to Disclaim At This Time, The Wi-Fi BizModel,
BT Video Streaming, A Blog on Your Fone, A Musical Blast From
the Past, Storage Growth is Phenomenal, You're All Just a Pack
of Cards, Lunar Land Rush, Do We Really Need More Abridgement
of Freedom?
June
6 , 2003 – The Cheap Revolution, part 2, Give the Spectrum
Away, RIM Forced To Pay Royalties
May
30, 2003 – The Cheap Revolution, The Continuing Saga of FeaturePrice,
Charge for Spam, Say Goodbye to Bananas, It Could Come To This,
More on Qurb
May
28, 2003 – New Wireless Standard Enhances Security, Bring
Out Your Dead (OSes), RFID Takes Another Step, Legal Internet
Guide Available, Mac Axes SMS Promotions in UK, Stolen Laptops
Call Home, Mini-DMCA Laws Aren’t So Bad
May
22, 2003 – Law Enforcement May Lack Money to Pursue Some Internet
Crimes, Young Nano Scientists, The Continuing Saga of FeaturePrice,
Pull the Plug on PowerPoint, I Want This Phone
May
13, 2003 – The eBay Suspension Fraud, Qurb Your Enthusiasm!
The Business Case for Wireless Access, Taking Hot Pix
May
5, 2003 – You’re Hit! Here Come the Lawsuits!, Another Take
On Future Tech, The Traveling Wi-Fi, Yes, Virginia, There Is a
Law Against Spam, A Low-Tech, High-Tech Nanofilter
April 30, 2003 – StratVantage
Site Moves: A Cautionary Tale, More of Your Freedom Chipped Away,
A Technical Solution to the Hacker Problem?
April
21, 2003 – Organizational Security: When People Are Involved,
Cell Phones and Post-War Iraq, Wi-Fi in the Sky (With Diamonds),
The Traveling Wi-Fi, Benetton to Tag 15 Million Items
March
20, 2003 – Is Wireless Industry Consolidation on the Horizon?
The Traveling Wi-Fi, Cisco Acquires Linksys, IBM to Unwire Truckers
and Other Cheeseburger Lovers
March
14, 2003 – Nanotechnology and Surfing the Tsunami, The Traveling
Wi-Fi, Teleportation Is Real, If You’re a Quantum Bit, Eighty
Percent Annoyed at Spam, Sales Taxing the Web
March
06, 2003 – Automated IM Dudes, The Answer to a Question Nobody
Asked, Deadly Phones, Gartner Does the 802.11 Numbers, House to
Consider $2.1B Nanotechnology Bill
February
28 , 2003 – Falsely Rejected Spam Irks Marketers, StratVantage
Possible Takeover Target, Rack Up Another Prediction Win, Be Careful
Responding to Job Postings, Good Gilder Questions, Microsoft P2P
SDK Beta
February
14 , 2003 – Razor King Cuts RFID Tag Deal, Smart Dust, I Used
to Want This Car, The Bleeding Wi-Fi Edge
February
07 , 2003 – I Have This WLAN, ATM Security Conversion, Microsoft
Threatened By Open Source, An Internet Image, Fooling AI
January
28, 2003 – I Have This Phone, Simon Delivers An Outage, Parasitic
Virus
2002
December
12 , 2002 – Quantum Cryptography Rides the Light, Gateway
Gets P2P, But Will It Work at Home?, Don’t Delay Supply Chain
Modernization, Yet Another Entertainment Suit, Windows Cheaper
Than Linux?, Time Traveler in Trouble
November
11 , 2002 – Outfit cons users into spamming their contacts,
Roscitt Gains Points, Phone Pix Not Too Bad, MovieLink Update,
Musician Barred From Selling Own Music, NanoVoyeurism, Wireless
Mirages, Shout Yahoo to AT&T Subscribers, The Wayback Machine
– A Year or Two Ago in SNS, Just the Right Stuff bonus
November
08 , 2002 – New Spam Popup Technique, Security Best Practices,
Banking and Hacking, Get Your Star Trek Communicator, Security
Best Practices
October
29, 2002 – If you deploy it, will they subscribe? Nanotech
Aping Nature, Locating WLAN Users, I Want These Devices
October
25, 2002 – Intertainer Sues to Stay Alive, Monet on the Money,
FTTH Growth Thoars, P2P Wireless Sniffer, Tech Jobs Fell, The
Triumph of Form Over Meaning, Gartner Predicts, Weblogs and Amateur
Publishing
October
18, 2002 – True 3G Is Here; The Hinterland Rules, Foreign
Cybersquatting, Justice Lost 400 Laptops, BlackBerry Gets Better
Connected, Nanotech Bill Introduced
October
2, 2002 – I Want These Phones, War Chalking Update, Cable
Companies Threaten to Sue Broadband Subscribers, Put Off Wi-Fi
Purchase Till Fall, Wireless Entertainment Center, Dell Entering
PDA Market, CEO Chats About eCommerce, The Wayback Machine –
A Year or Two Ago in SNS
September
24 , 2002 – Fiber to the Home? It’s Happening, Yet Another
Overwrought Jack Valenti Quote, Audiences are built. Communities
grow, Really Throw Your Voice, The Wayback Machine – A Year
or Two Ago in SNS
September
12 , 2002 – Getting a Rise Out of Nanotechnology, Sports
As Broadband Killer App?, The Wayback Machine – A Year Ago in
SNS
August
02 , 2002 – The Death of Internet Radio, Just Another Stupid
Date Name, Visual Security, Free Firewall, The Wayback Machine
– A Year Ago in SNS, Just the Right Stuff™ Samples
July
30, 2002 – Gathering Cruft, Gartner On Wireless Readiness
(Update), Funniest User Support Stories, JPEG Patented, Update
on the InternetHoroscopes.com Update, The Wayback Machine – A
Year Ago in SNS, Just the Right Stuff™ Samples
July
26, 2002 – If It Seems Too Good To Be True . . ., Threats
to Powered-Down Computers, Jargon Alert, Microsoft Gets In the
Groove, O2 Releases xda®, New Security Standards Efforts,
Gartner On Wireless Readiness, The Wayback Machine – A Year Ago
in SNS, Just the Right Stuff™ Samples
July
23, 2002 – Why You Need to Get Hip to HIPAA, Love the Name,
The Threat of Spyware, VoWLAN Apparently Patented, Windy City
– Connected City, The Email Overload, Roam Where You Want To,
Wireless Users Will Upgrade, The Wayback Machine – A Year Ago
in SNS, Just the Right Stuff™ Samples
July
19, 2002 – They That Can Give Up Essential Liberty, Global
Wireless Network Stats, The Wayback Machine – A Year Ago in SNS,
Just the Right Stuff™ Samples
July
16, 2002 – Content is Not King, Love the Name, Pretty Good
Text to Speech, Ends Justifying Means, Net Traffic Exceeds Voice
Traffic, Cyborg Teeth, Failed BizPlan Archive, The Wayback Machine
– A Year Ago in SNS, Just the Right Stuff™ Samples
July
08, 2002 – Mapping Mobile Commerce, Chalk Up Another Network,
Free Security Software, CyberInsecurity Act, Just the Right Stuff™
Samples
June
28, 2002 – Microsoft’s Weak Xbox Security, Wireless Predictions,
Lindows and Microsoft in Trademark Trouble, Motorola Pitches Canopy
June
20, 2002 – Broadband Content Wars Reader Feedback, Microsoft
to Buy Telecom Companies?
Aussies Can Teleport Light, CEOs’ Security Concerns Increased,
Earthlink Hungry for Customers, If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em,
RIM Sues Good
June
13, 2002 – Broadband Content Wars, Part IV, WorldCom Leaves
Wireless Biz, Microsoft Gets into Web Security, IBM’s Teeny Terabytes,
DoCoMo No Longer Ichiban, SMC to Bundle Boingo, CEOs to Link in
Emergency Network
June
6, 2002 – Broadband Content Wars, Part III, Through the Glass,
Darkly, Wireless Waste, Good Competition, Convention on CyberCrime,
Hacking the Lights
May
13 , 2002 – Bits & Pieces III, Congress May Delay Spectrum
Auction, Jargon Alert: CamelCase, Symbol Gets Mobile Enterprise
Telephony Patent, Security First Step, Tele-immersion and Business
Communications, Fear the Shredder, Cutting the Cord, Former Software
CEO to Join KISS on Farewell Tour, Good is Good Enough, The Out
of Work Comics, RIAA Wants You to Pay to Stamp Out Crime, UK Proposes
Stiff Penalties for Cell Phone Theft, Flash! You’re Compromised!
SETI Phone Home, Outlook Bug du Jour, Fighting Spam
April
30, 2002 – Bits & Pieces II: CyberCrime Stats Available,
Turnabout Is Fair Play, Airport Adds Bluetooth, Biometric Passport
Bill Passes Senate, European 3G Build-Out To Be Costly, Insecure
eCommerce, Wireless Bar Advertising is the Thing, The Attack of
the Ads, Fast, Public Wireless Hotspots, Google Denies Service
to Some Users, Nanotech Hyperbole
April
25, 2002 – Bits & Pieces: InfoWar in the Middle East,
Computer Crash a Classical Gas, Stop the Spam, No Longer Free
to Yahoo!, Style vs. Substance, What’s Your 20, Good Buddy? Spafford
Speaks, More Trouble for 3G
April
19, 2002 – Microsoft Repurposes My Services, Wired Broadband
in the Windy City Wireless Broadband in the Windy City AOL Dumps
IE in Favor of Netscape
April
16, 2002 – Broadband In the Sky Wars, Email That Hottie in
the Convertible, Scamming Online? Stop Now! GPRS Coming to Minneapolis,
Modern Medieval Siege Warfare
April
01, 2002 – Broadband Content Wars, Nano-whippersnappers or
Buggy Whip Slayers? I Want This Phone, Monster Server Farm
March
27 , 2002 – Wireless Serendipity, What’s the Deal with Number
Searches? Yahoo!/ACNielsen Internet Confidence Index Declines,
Spoofed MP3s Pose Danger, Microsoft Readying Converged Phones
March
22 , 2002 – Wireless Mesh Networks: Islands Make the Net,
Beta vs. Reality, Virtual Keyboard, Gartner On eBusiness Urgency,
I Want This Phone, er PDA, 802.11a Equipment Available, The Shoemaker’s
Children, Buzzkill
March
19 , 2002 – Cleaning Out the Old Links, Part 2, Facial Recognition
and Other Threats to Privacy, UK ISP Closes After DoS Attack,
Walk-up Printing for PDAs, The eBay Scam, Unbreakable” Oracle
9i Broken, More from the FBI Survey, Domain Sellers Busted, Genomics
Predictions, Verticalnet Gets Serious, Automated Security Testers,
Wireless Email Easily Hacked
March
15 , 2002 – Cleaning Out the Old Links, Face Recognition Not
There Yet, Space Nukes Back in Vogue, Pringles Cans a Security
Threat? .Net Compiler Security Flaw, The Worm Turns in Napster
Case, Fiddling with Napster While CDs Burn, Domain Name Auction,
Is the Web Ready for 3D? Bruce Schneier’s Recommendations
March 08 , 2002 – Anti-Microsoft
Hyperbole on Security, Sony in P2P Deal, Verizon Launches First
US 3G Network
February
28, 2002 – A Bad Year for Security Incidents, International
Reach, Microsoft As Security Threat, MessageLabs Says Viruses on
the Increase
February
20, 2002 – Handhelds in Health Care, Kmart Supply Chain at
Fault, Defacement Tracking Site Owner Steps Aside
February
04, 2002 – The Next Internet? SSPs Bite the Dust, European
3G Operator Relief, New Top Level Domains Go Live, Office XP Hates
ZoneAlarm
January
30, 2002 – Just Some Short Ones: Memory Goes 3D, Cute Intel,
Faster Wireless, New Jargon - Digital Hubs
January
23, 2002 – Choosing a Cell Phone, All Things Must Pass, Let
Me Roll You
January
10, 2002 – You're Hit. What Next? Thin is In, E Ink in PDAs,
More Investment in High Tech Planned, NIPC Warns of Microsoft
IE Vulnerabilities, The DOJ is Watching, Know Your Enemy, First
IPv6 Network, Sterling on Geeks and Spooks, Global Grid Progress,
Nokia and DoCoMo Collaborate on 3G Standard
January
08, 2002 – Software Quality and Cyberterror Threats, Part
4, Wireless Security Fixed, Another Bad Trademark Granted, Spin
Doctors
2001
December
19, 2001– Software Quality and Cyberterror Threats, Part 3,
Pundit Offers Scorecard, Script Kiddies Behind Goner
December
06, 2001– Software Quality and Cyberterror Threats, Part 2,
Unintended Consequences of Search Engines, Another Fixed Wireless
Player, Yet Another Fixed Wireless Player, My, How We’ve Grown,
Online Exchange Volume is Up, Wireless LAN Productivity, If You
Need Phone Word Help
November
28, 2001– Software Quality and Cyberterror Threats, Don’t
Believe What You See, Sometimes the Magic Works
November
08, 2001– Quality of Service is in the Eye of the Beholder,
Geek Shirt, Roadrunner Won’t Support XP, Stupid Quote Alert, I
Want This Phone, Cyberprotests a Threat? A Really Dumb Site, Richochet
Rebounds
November
02, 2001– How Many Search Engines Are There? A Foolish Security,
Face Recognition Again, Wireless Data and Terrorism, Blinding
Flash of the Obvious, Gov Favors Limiting FOIA Disclosure of Computer
Attacks
October
30, 2001– Cost of eBusiness Has Dropped, Time to Face Face
Recognition Software, Denial of Service Attacks Getting Scary,
The Taliban Virus, New Red Hat Linux Release Compromised? Microsoft
Blames the Messengers, Power from Space
October
26, 2001– Nanotubes May Be For Real, Sprint Readies Visor
Phone Plug-in, Track the Crackers, Securing Wireless LANs, The
High Tech Hunt for Bin Laden, Coordinated Cyberattacks Stopped
on 9/10/01, Java Phones on the Rise, No Comment, Carbon-Based
Computer Memory
October
23, 2001– Security Problems Plague All Operating Systems,
Are You Ready for CRM? Wireless Videoconferencing, Life in Prison
for Hacking? Record Industry Profiteering, Cracking Attacks on
Pace to Double, The Sky Is Falling, A Sound Link
October
16, 2001– Web Services On the Radar Screen, Manufacturers
Move to Protect Critical Infrastructures, Microsoft Finally Serious
About Security? Spears Hoax, Gartner Says Ditch IIS or Face Risk,
Making Copies to Ensure Availability, Too Much Sun? I Want This
Phone, Stupid Quote Alert
October
11, 2001– Someone to Watch Over Us, Advertising Has Changed,
Toshiba Rolls Out Handheld, First US GPRS Network Expands, Are
U Ready 4 a New Buzzword? How Can You Be In Two Places At Once,
When You’re Not Anywhere At All? Encryption a Threat? Unsafe At
Any Speed?
October
02, 2001– Wireless Almost Usable, Shameless Self-Promotion
Dept., Nokia Covering Its Bets, Java on the Phone – Your Desktop
Phone, Single Sign-On = Liberty? Too Many Clues, DoCoMo Starts
First 3G Service, Sprint Stops Whining; Debuts E911 Phone, Commitment
to Make a Difference, Microsoft’s .NET Could Be Virus-Prone
September
27, 2001– National ID Cards As A Solution? Random Web Usage
Tip, Expanded Wiretap Authority Analyzed, YAMV (Yet Another Microsoft
Virus) Report, Unmanned Aircraft May Be Key, Background Check
Business Booming, Nokia and Visa Piloting Dual Chip Mobile Payment
Service, Visualization As Decision Support, Inventor of Popular
Crypto Program Clarifies
September
21, 2001– Guns On Planes As A Solution? Vigilante Crackers
Warned, Taleban.com Cracked
September
18, 2001– Can Freedom and Security Coexist? MS Passport Cracked,
Already, Ho hum. Another Microsoft-Caused Catastrophic Virus,
Cracker Cracks Islamist Extremist Web Site
September
10, 2001– The Right to Privacy? Briefly Noted: Web Site Liability,
Get ‘Em While They’re Young, A Sneaky Way to Increase Wireless
Revenue, Signs You Live in the Year 2001, New Times, New Art,
Loudcloud Makin’ Some Noise, VoiceXML 2 held up for intellectual
property issues, Report from Burning Man
September
4, 2001– Cybersquatting Is Legal – For Some, Briefly Noted:
Fighting Back Against Code Red, Insurer Charges Premium for Using
Microsoft, and more
August
29, 2001– Wi-Fi not secure, Briefly Noted: face recognition,
the dead love Microsoft, and more
August
24, 2001– Fighting Code Red, Briefly Noted: corrections and
comments on Microsoft Password, and more
August
21, 2001– Microsoft Passport, Briefly Noted: Palm buys Be,
Jargon Watch, and more
August
17, 2001– Wireless P2P gaming, Briefly Noted: PDF virus, The
Industry Standard's demise, and more
August
15, 2001– Congress squeezes ICANN, Briefly Noted: high altitude
Net access, E911 delayed, and more
August
10, 2001– Grand Conspiracy, Briefly Noted: test your security,
Lords of the Rings, and more
August
08, 2001– IBM Legitimizes P2P, Briefly Noted: stupid software
patents, and more
August
06, 2001– Cashless and Your Privacy, Briefly Noted: Metricom
folds, and more
August
03, 2001– Blogdex, Briefly Noted: .info domain sunrise, and
more
August
01, 2001– Online advertising and branding, Briefly Noted:
Nokia 850MHz GSMphone, Microsoft bashing, and more
July
30, 2001– B2B Pace Care, Briefly Noted: more online grocers,
cold light, and more
July
26, 2001– Wireless and Cashless, Briefly Noted: auctions rise,
invisible copyright infringement, and more
July
23, 2001– Broadband future, Briefly Noted: Stupid email tricks,
GPRS phone released in US, and more
July
19, 2001– Legal implications of P2P, Briefly Noted: Toast,
more online grocery, and more
July
16, 2001– How not to be an online grocer, Briefly Noted: Wireless
stumble, thumb envy, and more
July
12, 2001– Disposable tech, part 2, Briefly Noted: Microsoft
does the right thing, and more
July
09, 2001– Disposable phones, Briefly Noted: broadband penetration,
3G problems in Japan, 802.11a, and more
June
26, 2001– How will we find each other's computers?, Briefly
Noted: Moore's Law still good, manufacturers using trading networks,
and more
June
25, 2001– How will we find each other?, Briefly Noted: video
phones, digital divide, and more
June
21, 2001– Hyperlinking outlawed?, Briefly Noted: CD-eating
fungus, and more
June
12, 2001– Gelernter on user interfaces, Briefly Noted: big
number buzz, dotcom deaths, and more
June
07, 2001– BMW Films and bad design, Briefly Noted: NebXML,
PTX buzz, and more
June
01, 2001– Scan-Based Trading, Briefly Noted: Net appliances,
analog computers, and more
May
21, 2001– Briefly Noted: .biz, wireless, exchanges, home delivery,
and more
May
16, 2001– Microsoft's Not Guilty, Microsoft changes licensing
May
15, 2001– Microsoft's Big Brother attitude, part 2, briefly
noted
May
11, 2001– Microsoft's Big Brother attitude, briefly noted
May
09, 2001– the accelerating pace of change, briefly noted
May
04, 2001– paper revolution, briefly noted
May
01, 2001– micropayments the NBT?
April
23, 2001– Toffler on the future, new TrendSpot
rankings
April
19, 2001– Aussies ban email forwarding, SightSound does movie
downloads
April
16, 2001– B2B exchanges lost a billion, ASPs defy prediction
April
11, 2001– confidence in B2B exchanges flows, gratuitious fun
April
09, 2001– confidence in B2B exchanges ebbs, too early for
Bluetooth?, StratVantage Stratlets
April
05, 2001 – patent protection weakened, MIT education online
March
19, 2001 – NYSE fines online broker, petabytes are coming
March
08, 2001 – competitive domain names, track airline flights
March
06, 2001 – match head Web server, new domain names delayed
March
05, 2001 – trademarks and domain names, a WAP browser for
your PC
March
02, 2001– use your phone number as a Web address, Verisign
to give up .net, .org
March
01, 2001 – stupid buzz word alert, wireless portals
February
25, 2001 – you 2 can B a virus writer!, where the money is
February
15, 2001 – sex sells, problems with search engine usage
February
8, 2001– buzz word alert: PTX, SMEs left out in cold
February
6, 2001 – Generation E
January
24, 2001 – Sun/Microsoft settle, those wacky Democrats
January
22, 2001 – new domain names, back 2 basics, revolution in
retail
January
18, 2001 – AOL wireless, Web maturing, Ramen worm, wireless
white paper
2000
December
13, 2000 – failed search engine, greatest Japanese invention
December
12, 2000 – Aimster, Real Networks iQ, Wireless growth stat
fix, Ultraband ultrafast
November
21, 2000 – map the Web, audio ad streaming
November
20, 2000 – freelancer rights, Gartner on wireless, eBusiness
waves, UDDI, too big for Big Blue, more XML standards, FTC on
B2B, D&B wakes up
November
14, 2000 -- cell phones print from Web, UDDI
November
13, 2000 -- ASP popular apps, voice is golden, I want this
phone
November
10, 2000 -- wireless convergence, net appliances, Internet
time
November
9, 2000 -- ASP reliability, Websites and US election, wireless
ads
November
3, 2000 -- tech predictions, location-based services
October
31, 2000 -- location-based services
October
25, 2000 -- eBiz service firms, Cisco and Ariba, Clarus
October
19, 2000 -- Website content, new domain suffixes, eMarketplaces
and SMEs
September
29, 2000 -- bandwidth, smart mouse pad, stupid name alerts
September
28, 2000 -- net myths, Oracle, dinosaur exchanges
September
24, 2000 -- eCommerce transforming, MS bCentral, city
wireless, Ricochet, mCommerce acceptance, B2B communities, business
DSL use, FreeMarkets, standards, Tom Peters
September
19, 2000 -- reluctant Web, disintermediation, Web marketing,
incubators
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