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April 6, 2007 
Beyond Net Neutrality: If at first you don't succeed, change the game.
February 9, 2007
DRM Catcher: By the time Steve Jobs calls for the end of Digital Rights Management, it is already dead.
[ bandwidth | bill gates | data centers | digital rights management | drm | fairplay | google | internet video | microsoft | music industry | steve jobs ]February 2, 2007
WYSIWYB: Honesty (and a little TCP Mustang) is the solution to tomorrow's Internet video problem.
July 13, 2006
The Skype is Falling: Even Viral Networks Have to Function in a Real World
December 8, 2005
Lock and Load: Apple's Rumored Storage Locker Strategy Would Allow Us to Look But Not Touch
April 14, 2005
A Cup of Bandwidth: Bob Quietly "Borrows" Internet Service From Three Neighbors at Once
March 24, 2005
Hide and Seek: VoIP Users Strike Back Against Network Providers, but Will It Be enough? No.
July 1, 2004
TV Oaxaca: How Narrowband Streaming Video Could Serve 90 Million Stranded Americans
June 24, 2004
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Big Old Stupid Telephone Companies Are Throwing Away Their Only Real Asset
June 26, 2003
Sucking Through a Straw: A Bandwidth Drought Is Coming, And U.S. Phone Companies and ISPs Have No Idea What To Do About It
June 12, 2003
Twice As Much Nothing to Watch on TV: How Ultra Wide Band Networking May Change Cable TV; Also, How SCO Unix May, Itself, Have Code Ripped-Off From Both Linux and BSD Unix
August 15, 2002
Plug Me In: Ever Hear of a HomePlug Network? You Will
June 20, 2002
Is a Little Broadband Enough?: Covad Seems to Think So. Also, Why Microsoft Keeps Getting Sued
June 6, 2002
Running Interference: There's a Big Threat to 802.11b Networking, Yet Nobody Seems to Care — Here's Why
March 28, 2002
On With the Show: Downloadable Video Cringely is on His Way
February 28, 2002
In the Eye of the Beholder: Why the Best Device for Streaming Video Might Be a Mobile Phone
February 7, 2002
Bank Shot: Not Even a Mountain Can Get in the Way of Bob's Search for Faster Internet Service
January 31, 2002
Soon, It's Gonna Rain: A New Modulation Technology Promises to Turn Your Cable TV Connection Into a 10 Gigabit-Per-Second Digital Fire Hose
October 18, 2001
Broadly Speaking: More About How Broadband Does, and Doesn't, Work in the Real World
October 11, 2001
Broadband Is Dead: Sad but True, Broadband Isn't Making the Cut, but Bob Has Reason to Believe This Isn't a Bad Thing at All
June 21, 2001
It's the Bandwidth, Stupid: Why Owning Big Server Farms Can Be a Hard Way to Make a Buck
May 3, 2001
Wakeup Call: In This Wired World, We Can Tell People Pretty Much Anything Except That There Is a Cloud of Poison Gas Blowing Their Way
February 22, 2001
Sorry, Wrong Number: Why Your Phone Company Hates DSL
January 4, 2001
Why I Get the Big Bucks: Bob's High-Tech Predictions for 2001
December 7, 2000
Everyone's a Critic: Never Underestimate the Power of User Impatience to Drive PC Sales
May 11, 2000
MAN Trouble: So You Finally Have DSL and Tons of Bandwidth, but Don't Be Surprised If Your Metropolitan Area Network Lets You Down
December 30, 1999
You Can't Get There From Here: Twenty Predictions for the Year 2000
May 20, 1999
You Can't Get There From Here: We Are Years Away From Watching Movies Over the Net
January 14, 1999
Dr. McCoy on the Bridge With Tourette's Syndrome: Cringely's 1999 Predictions Render Him Wacky
September 17, 1998
Close But No Cigar: Why the Starr Report Shows Not That the Internet Has Arrived, but That it Still Has Far to Go
February 6, 1998
There's no fool like an old fool: How I plan to overthrow the Internet just for the heck of it (and why you should help).
September 17, 1997
That does not compute!: Bob proves he knows how to multiply even if Worldcom and Compuserve can't.
July 3, 1997
Hong Kong party line: Why Beijing realizes (and Washington still doesn't) that Net censorship just won't work.
June 26, 1997
Hosed again: Why buying that new 56K modem won't make you a faster Web surfer.