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The Pulpit
December 2004
December 30, 2004
Wave of Change: How to Build a Global Internet Tsunami Warning System in a Month
December 23, 2004
Getting Real: Yes, Virginia, There Is Life After Visual Basic
December 16, 2004
Between an xBox and a Hard Place: When Microsoft Turns on Its Hardware OEMs and Even Dell Must Die, Will IBM Play the Savior?
December 9, 2004
The China Syndrome: If You Want to Understand IBM Selling Its PC Division, Just Look East
December 2, 2004
Wishing for Audrey: Now That the World Is Finally Ready for Internet Appliances, Where Are They?
November 2004
November 25, 2004
Land Grab: What If Wal-Mart Got in the WiMax Business?
November 18, 2004
Turn Your Head and Cough: It Isn't That Microsoft Is So Healthy That They Have an Advantage in Healthcare IT, It's That the Current Players Are So Sick
November 11, 2004
Changing of the Guard: This Time, Microsoft's the Good Guy
November 4, 2004
Bob Don't Know Diddy: Post-Election Reflections on Polls and Other Stuff
October 2004
October 28, 2004
Come to Daddy: How Ken Schaffer's TV2ME (or Something Just Like It, But Cheaper) Will Change Television Forever
October 21, 2004
The Diddy Factor: Why We Probably Shouldn't Put Too Much Faith in Presidential Tracking Polls
October 14, 2004
The Ears Have It: How Yelp!, Which Launched This Week, Could Change Both Local Searching and Local Business Forever
October 7, 2004
The Chris Phillips Deal: Did Microsoft Lie to the Department of Justice? Maybe So
September 2004
September 30, 2004
The Limits of SpongeBob SquarePants: One Canadian's Wireless Neighborhood Network Could Someday Serve Us All
September 23, 2004
The S-Word: How Microsoft Hopes Its New Emphasis on Security Will Lead to Global Domination
September 16, 2004
Go to the Back of the Bus: How Microsoft Plans to Use a New USB Standard to Cripple Linux
September 9, 2004
'Cause Backing-up is Hard to Do: Introducing Baxter, a Peer-to-Peer Backup Network
September 2, 2004
A Hurricane Named Sinatra: How to Take Your Data With You in an Evacuation, and How Apple Is Quietly Undermining the RIAA
August 2004
August 26, 2004
Out of School: Doug Engelbart's Experience Shows That Even the Best Technology Can Be Ignored If It Is Difficult to Classify
August 19, 2004
Now What?: Google, Finally a Public Company, Faces Huge Challenges, So of Course Bob Tells Them What to Do
August 12, 2004
Fred Nold's Legacy: Why We Send So Many Americans to Prison and Probably Shouldn't
August 5, 2004
The Big Picture: Rolltronics Display Backplane Technology Could Put a Holodeck in Your Bedroom
July 2004
July 29, 2004
WhyFlying: It's Pretty Darned Close to Free Aerial Broadband
July 22, 2004
Open and Shut: Does Sveasoft (Or Anyone Else) Have the Right to Make a Living From Open Source Software?
July 15, 2004
War Flying: Bob wants to put WiFi in the Sky
July 8, 2004
Take Two and Call Me in the Morning: One Bob's Search for Reliable Internet Service in a Colonial City
July 1, 2004
TV Oaxaca: How Narrowband Streaming Video Could Serve 90 Million Stranded Americans
June 2004
June 24, 2004
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Big Old Stupid Telephone Companies Are Throwing Away Their Only Real Asset
June 17, 2004
Clueless in Seattle: Can There Be Some Psychological Basis to Microsoft Court Behavior?
June 10, 2004
Together at Last: Maybe the Best Use for Web Logging Is to Teach Us More About Ourselves
June 3, 2004
Engines of Change: When It Comes to the Application of Disruptive Consumer Electronic Technologies, We Probably Have Napster (the Old One) to Thank
May 2004
May 27, 2004
The Little Engine That Could: How Linux is Inadvertently Poised to Remake the Telephone and Internet Markets
May 20, 2004
Divide and Conquer: Why Apple Has an iPod Division
May 13, 2004
The Wild Ones: The Best Way to Protect Sales of Virtual Goods Can Be Found Inside the Game, Itself
May 6, 2004
PayAcquaintance: When It Comes to Selling Virtual Property, PayPal Isn't Always Your Pal
April 2004
April 29, 2004
Speed Bump: While Moore's Law Isn't About to be Repealed Soon, We Might See It Slowing Down a Little
April 22, 2004
Do What I Mean: If Web Searches Are Going to Get More Accurate, It Might Require a Technology Like MeaningMaster, Which Was 20 Years in the Making
April 15, 2004
Shake Your Groove Thing: The Only Way to Beat Microsoft is by Ignoring Microsoft
April 8, 2004
The Once and Future King: Now the Only Way Microsoft Can Die is by Suicide
April 1, 2004
Timing is Everything: Look at Anti-Trust Law as a Digital Design and -- Guess What -- Microsoft Wins
March 2004
March 25, 2004
Conscientious Objector: The U.S. Military is Busily Outsourcing Its Core IT Services, but Would a Really Disciplined Outfit Like Wal-Mart Do the Same?
March 18, 2004
A Lose-Lose Situation: Sometimes IT Integration Just Isn't Worth the Trouble
March 11, 2004
Prints of Darkness: A Year Into the E-voting Crisis, Shouldn't We Have Noticed the Printer That's Already Built into Each Diebold Voting Machine?
March 4, 2004
The Curse of the Hundred Bagger: Why Venture Capitalists Are Paralyzed and Our Economy is Stagnant
February 2004
February 26, 2004
Making Waves: How to Turn Around the U.S. Tech Economy in One Week With No New Laws, Regulations, or Tax Breaks Required and Without Moving to India
February 19, 2004
Misinterpretation: If .NET is Such a Security Nightmare (It Is), Why Isn't Everybody Fighting to Own the Obvious and Fairly Simple Solution?
February 12, 2004
Crazy After All These Years: Does the Key to Microsoft’s Plan for Global Media Domination Involve Driving Judges Insane?
February 5, 2004
Now Hear This: If We’re in Trouble, Its Probably Because People No Longer Really Listen
January 2004
January 29, 2004
Our Own Damned Fault: When It Comes to Understanding Why Government Doesn't Understand High-Tech and Why Financial Markets Seem to be Working Against Our Own Interests, Well, We Did It to Ourselves
January 22, 2004
Thick as a (Campaign) Plank: U.S. Leaders Either Don't Understand or Prefer Not to Understand the IT Outsourcing Crisis, So Here's the Cliff Notes Version
January 15, 2004
Whyfi Not?: Bob Defends His Wireless Networking Idea
January 8, 2004
For love not money: How WhyFi can turn hotspots into a real industry
January 1, 2004
Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back: Bob's Predictions for 2004