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December 2001
December 27, 2001
What I Want for Christmas: A Supercomputer in Every Garage!
December 20, 2001
Good Morning, Osama: How Steve Morton is Reinventing the Way We Find Bad Guys
December 13, 2001
How to Predict the Future: Jim Kowalick Knows How and We Can, Too
December 6, 2001
He's Not in It for the Profit: Steve Satchell for Microsoft Anti-Trust Compliance Committee!
November 2001
November 29, 2001
The Other Side of .NET: Why Microsoft Could Still Fail With .NET and How They'd Likely Recover From That Failure
November 22, 2001
Bill to Linus: You Owe Me.: Did Bill Gates Invent Open Source Software? No, But He'll Take Credit For It, Anyway
November 15, 2001
Be Absolute for Death: Life After Moore's Law
November 8, 2001
Caught in a .NET: Don't Expect Microsoft to Give Up One Weapon Without Acquiring Another — How .NET Assures the Continuation of Monopoly
November 1, 2001
Sharper Than Ever: Microsoft's C# Language Might Be the Death of Java, but Sun's the One to Blame
October 2001
October 25, 2001
Going to the Dogs: Why Venture Capitalists Have Such a Hard Time Making Money on the Internet and How to Change That
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
October 4, 2001
The Money Game: The First and Last Column I'll Ever Write About Economics, I Promise
September 2001
September 27, 2001
Electric Money: 3,184 Words About Bob's New Show, Which Airs Next Week
September 20, 2001
Defending Your Life: Why Terrorists Trade Stocks
September 13, 2001
To a Man With a Hammer: Some Thoughts on the Pentagon and World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks
September 6, 2001
Resetting the Shot Clock: Why Hewlett Packard Buying Compaq is a Very Bad Idea, But Will Happen Anyway
August 2001
August 30, 2001
No Longer Feeling @Home: Why the Current Troubles of Excite@Home Aren't Quite as the Analysts Say, But They Were Probably Inevitable
August 23, 2001
Roll Your Own: Not Only Can You Do Your Own DSL, Here's How to Become a Broadband Tycoon at the Same Time
August 16, 2001
Making Lemonade: How Microsoft Is Using Its Own Legal Defeat to Hurt Java
August 9, 2001
"You're a freakin' moron, Bob.": Loyal Readers React to Last Week's Column
August 2, 2001
The Death of TCP/IP: Why the Age of Internet Innocence is Over
July 2001
July 30, 2001
Calm Before the Storm: Tuesday Night the Code Red Worm Comes Back to Life and There is Not Much We Can Do to Stop It
July 26, 2001
There's No Tomorrow: How One Man is Trying to Take the Role of Time Out of Derivative Securities Trading
July 19, 2001
Internet Winter: Why Internet Security is an Oxymoron
July 12, 2001
I Network, Therefore I Am: Further Adventures in the World of Bootleg 802.11b
July 5, 2001
And Your Little Dog, Too: Why the Recent Court of Appeals Judgement Isn't as Good or as Bad for Microsoft as Many People Think, and May Not Even Matter at All
June 2001
June 28, 2001
Reach Out and Touch Someone: How Bob and His Binoculars Found More Bandwidth and Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bond
June 21, 2001
It's the Bandwidth, Stupid: Why Owning Big Server Farms Can Be a Hard Way to Make a Buck
June 14, 2001
Rules of the Road: High Tech Startups Are Set to Boom Again, So Here Are Some Rules for Getting Rich, Then Getting Out
June 7, 2001
The ABBA Effect: Java May Be the Future of Mobile Communications, But That Future May Be Later Than Expected
May 2001
May 31, 2001
Paying the Piper: Forget PayPal and MasterCard — the Key to Micropayments and Making the Web Pay is Just Newfangled Money
May 24, 2001
Let's Get Small: The Idea of Ideas and One Reader's Thought on How the Web Might Pay for Itself
May 17, 2001
Airplay: How a New Video Game Technology Just Might Change the Way We Network Our Homes and Offices
May 10, 2001
Power to the People: How to Quickly End California's Electric Crisis
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
April 2001
April 27, 2001
Cargo Cult: Ask Not for Whom the Internet Bubble Bursts, It Bursts for Thee
April 19, 2001
Data, Know Thyself Part 2: Four Reasons Why XML Will Probably Not Meet Our Expectations
April 12, 2001
Data, Know Thyself: The Power of XML is Going to Change Everything About Computing. Now If Only I Could Describe It
April 5, 2001
Less Than Nothing: How Market Psychology Makes Companies Worth More — and Less — Than They Really Should Be
March 2001
March 29, 2001
Mario, Plumber of Destiny?: Further Details and Reader Comments on the Future of Video Gaming
March 22, 2001
The Plumber Is Back: How Nintendo and Microsoft Are About to Open a Can of Whoop-Ass on Sony's Video Game Empire
March 15, 2001
Round Two: In Which Bob Admits a Big Mistake Then Attempts to Redeem Himself With Readers by Saving Wall Street (Yeah, Right)
March 8, 2001
Better Read Than Dead?: That Anti-virus Program May Be Helping Someone Else to Read Your E-mail
March 1, 2001
Claude Who?: The Passing of Another Computing Pioneer Reminds Us of How Much We Have Already Forgotten
February 2001
February 22, 2001
Sorry, Wrong Number: Why Your Phone Company Hates DSL
February 15, 2001
A Friend In Deed: Ami Dar Shows How to be a High-Tech Success
February 8, 2001
In Defense of the Free Ride: How the Best Price for Napster Downloads Might Actually Be Free
February 1, 2001
E.T. Doesn't Play Games: Further Insights Into Starband Satellite Internet
January 2001
January 25, 2001
E.T. Phone Home: Satellite Internet Has Arrived and Amazingly, It Works
January 18, 2001
The $15 PC: Computing is About to Enter a Hardware Revolution That Will Change the World as We Know It
January 11, 2001
It's Not Personal, It's Business: Steve Jobs, MacOS-X and the Abuse of Customer Loyalty
January 4, 2001
Why I Get the Big Bucks: Bob's High-Tech Predictions for 2001