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December 2000
December 28, 2000
Lie Back and Think of England: Internet commerce has its risks, but we're not the ones who bear them.
December 21, 2000
Bah Humbug!: There Might Be a PC Recession, But That's Not What's Behind Microsoft's Recent Earnings Dip
December 14, 2000
Make It 15 Percent Funnier: How MPEG-7 Might Change Hollywood Forever
December 7, 2000
Everyone's a Critic: Never Underestimate the Power of User Impatience to Drive PC Sales
November 2000
November 30, 2000
Let's Put on a Show!: How to Avoid the Looming PC Recession
November 23, 2000
The New New Bill Gates: A Revisionist Look at the Richest Man on Earth
November 16, 2000
Comdex, Bloody Comdex: Why the Best Way to See the World's Biggest Computer Show May Be by Not Going at All
November 9, 2000
Flunking Out: Bad Grades for the Electoral College
November 2, 2000
Not What It's Cracked Up to Be: Understanding the Microsoft Break-in is Probably Closer Than Most People Think
October 2000
October 26, 2000
The Sample Truth: How Online Opinion Polls are Different From Traditional Polls, and Sometimes, Better
October 19, 2000
Beat Me, Whip Me, Make Me Write Bad Checks: Big-time Financial Advice Comes to the Internet, and Nobody Notices
October 12, 2000
More Good News!: Cisco's Another Bright Light in an Otherwise Dark Quarter
October 5, 2000
Don't Worry, Be Happy!: Why Apple's Darkest Moment Isn't So Dark at All
September 2000
September 28, 2000
Mr. Internet Come Here, I Want You!: Bob Reconsiders Internet Telephony
September 21, 2000
Search and Ye Might Find: How the Very Success of the Internet Makes It Harder to Find the Good Stuff
September 14, 2000
Through an ILEC Darkly: How DSL Works and Might Even Make Us Rich
September 7, 2000
Looking for a Shred of Truth: In a Litigious Age, a Paper Shredder Can Be Man's Best Friend
August 2000
August 31, 2000
I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday: How PayPal Has Already Won the Battle of the Internet Payment Systems
August 24, 2000
Put On Your Thinking Cap: Chris McKinstry Wants to Build a Brain Accelerator
August 17, 2000
If You Build It, They Will Come: What BlackPlanet Teaches Us About the True Nature of the Internet
August 10, 2000
X Blocks: How Microsoft's X-Box is Attempting to Hurt the Upcoming PlayStation 2 Introduction and Why It Probably Won't Work
July 2000
July 27, 2000
Everybody's Wrong: When It Comes to the History of High Tech, the Truth is Often Buried (by the PR Department) and Forgotten, Only to be Learned Over and Over and Over Again
July 20, 2000
Carnivore 2.0: More on the Perils of FBI Internet Surveillance and Why It's Even Worse in Australia
July 13, 2000
Meet Eater: The FBI's Plan for Digital Wiretaps Raises More Questions ThanIt Answers
July 6, 2000
October Surprise:: How high technology may well smooth Al Gore's path to the White House
June 2000
June 29, 2000
Downtrodden Rock Stars Unite!: It's not that Napster is so Great: People Just Hate Record Companies
June 22, 2000
Signal Tasking: Steve Morton Proves That It Doesn't Take Thousands of Engineers or Billions of Dollars to Build a World Class Chip Company
June 15, 2000
Because They Have To: Why Judy Estrin and Bill Carrico, Who Already Have More Money Than God, Are Doing Their Fourth Startup
June 8, 2000
Justice is Blind: Why Microsoft Might Actually Be Relieved (Even Thrilled) With Judge Jackson's Order to Split the Company in Two
June 1, 2000
There's a New Game in Town: How and Why the Internet Industry is Starting to Grow Up
May 2000
May 25, 2000
Stranger in a Strange Land: How Homer Sarasohn Brought Industrial Quality to Japan and Why It Took Japan So Long to Learn
May 18, 2000
All That Glitters: How the Real Value of Business Intelligence is Allowing Us to Fail Quicker
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
May 4, 2000
Array of Hope: How One Little Company Throws Into Doubt Some of theThird-Generation Cellular Hype
April 2000
April 27, 2000
Of Black Holes and Bank Notes: Chaos Theory and Astrophysics are Changing the Stock Market, but You and I Won't Benefit
April 20, 2000
What Goes Down: Why the Bad News From Wall Street Isn't As Bad As It Seems
April 14, 2000
The Palm Paradox: How Looking at Two Stock Prices From Inside Out Explains the Current Tech Share Meltdown
April 7, 2000
Whiz Kid: TrueSAN's Tom Isakovich May Be Silicon Valley's Youngest CEO
March 2000
March 30, 2000
No More Mr. Nice Guy: If Microsoft Isn't Settling its Antitrust Case, it Just Might be Because Judge Jackson is Sending the Wrong Signals
March 23, 2000
Don't Touch That Dial: How the Commercial Television Networks Plan to Use the Internet to Destroy Local TV
March 16, 2000
A Shot Across the Bow: The Real Strategy Behind Microsoft's X-Box Game System
March 9, 2000
Take My Job, Please: How to Predict the Future and Become an Industry Pundit
March 2, 2000
Have Another Cup?: The Return of Java and its New Importance in Business
February 2000
February 24, 2000
The Cat is Out of the Bag: Why DDoS May be Even Worse Than You Think. A LOT Worse
February 17, 2000
The Plot Thickens: Why is Everybody Talking About Distributed Denial of Service but Nobody is Saying Anything?
February 10, 2000
Service Denied: There are Worse Things Than Being Knocked Off eBay for an Hour
February 3, 2000
The (Super) Bowl is Half Empty: Why an Inevitable Business Transition Makesit Probably not too Smart for Internet Companies to Run Commercials During the Super Bowl
January 2000
January 27, 2000
That's Where the Money Is: Hold Onto Your Wallet, Because Computer Crime IsGrowing Up
January 20, 2000
Good Cop, Bad Cop: Why the Ascendancy of Steve Ballmer Has More to Do With the Department of Justice Than It Has to Do With Microsoft
January 13, 2000
Th-th-th-th-that's All Folks!: What's Behind the AOL/Time-Warner Merger is More Obvious Than Some People Would Like to Admit
January 6, 2000
Nyah-Nyah!: The Last-Ever Cringely Y2K Column