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December 2005
December 29, 2005
Stop the Presses!: How Pay-Per-Click Is Killing the Traditional Publishing Industry
December 22, 2005
Nothing Changes: Even in a Dynamic Industry Like the Internet, Companies and Regulators Hardly Ever Truly Change
December 15, 2005
Tough Love: More on Media Storage Lockers and Bob's Idea for Getting Rid of Web Window Shoppers
December 8, 2005
Lock and Load: Apple's Rumored Storage Locker Strategy Would Allow Us to Look But Not Touch
December 1, 2005
The Sweet Spot: By Choosing Where NOT to Compete, Google Can Win the Broadband Game
November 2005
November 24, 2005
The Google Cube: Taking over the digital world four ounces at a time.
November 17, 2005
Google-Mart: Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet Than Microsoft Ever Did
November 10, 2005
Paper War: Microsoft Is Leaking Internal Documents to Make Us Think They Have a Plan
November 3, 2005
It's Deja Vu All Over Again: We've Seen Microsoft's New Live Strategy Before
October 2005
October 27, 2005
Changing the Guard: Retiring Baby Boomers Are Going to Invigorate Open Source
October 20, 2005
Energy Crisis: It's Hard to Make a Buck When You Are Storing Everyone's Stuff for Free
October 13, 2005
Seeing Is Believing: Thoughts on Apple's Video iPod and the Google AdWord Experiment
October 6, 2005
Meeting Over a Cup of Java: Some Thoughts on What's Behind This Week's Sun/Google Announcement, Plus a Promised AdWords Update
September 2005
September 29, 2005
Acts of Omission: Our Lives Have Been Molded at Lot By the Copyright Act of 1909
September 22, 2005
Google Goes Las Vegas: An AdWords Experiment Shows Why at Google, the House Always Wins
September 15, 2005
It's Only $2.6 Billion: How eBay Was Able to Squint and Make Buying Skype Almost Look Like a Bargain
September 8, 2005
Risky Business: Hurricane Preparedness Too Often Means Others Are Playing the Odds on Our Behalf
September 1, 2005
NerdTV Is Next Week!: The Bob Attempts to Build Some Buzz for His Downloadable TV Show, Which -- Good or Bad -- Is Certainly Different
August 2005
August 25, 2005
Has Google Peaked?: The Biggest Threat to Microsoft Might Not Be Those G-men at All, but Apple
August 18, 2005
Patently Absurd: Patent Reform Legislation in Congress Amounts to Little More Than a "Get Out of Jail Free" Card for Microsoft
August 11, 2005
The Gloves Come Off: Thanks to the Supreme Court and the FCC, U.S. Telcos Are About to Reinvent Their DSL Businesses
August 4, 2005
The New Robber Barons: IT Has Become an Offensive Weapon for Business
July 2005
July 28, 2005
Skyped: The Likely Sale of Skype Will Be Another Kick in the Head to Old-Line Phone Companies Worldwide
July 21, 2005
When Elephants Dance: The Impending War between Intel and Microsoft
July 14, 2005
More Shoes: There's More to the Apple/Intel Deal Than Even Bob Thought At First
July 7, 2005
Pod Person: I, Cringely Changes, and Yet Remains the Same
June 2005
June 30, 2005
Accessories Make the Nerd: The Supreme Court This Week Unknowingly Pushed Us All Toward Web 2.0
June 23, 2005
A Flash in the Pan: NeuStar Is VoIP's Only Guaranteed Sure Thing
June 16, 2005
The Osborne Effect: Sometimes What Everyone Remembers Is Wrong
June 9, 2005
Going for Broke: Apple's Decision to Use Intel Processors Is Nothing Less Than an Attempt to Dethrone Microsoft. Really.
June 2, 2005
Man Bites Phish: The Best Way to Stop These Scams Is by Drowning the Phish
May 2005
May 26, 2005
Phish or Phisher?: It Is Time to Put Phishing Scams Out of Business
May 19, 2005
Creationism: Why No Single Entity is Capable of Dictating the Future
May 12, 2005
Inflection Point: This Week Changed the World of High Tech Forever, Though Most of Us Still Don't Know It
May 5, 2005
Jet Me to Work: DayJet Software Could Revolutionize More Than Just Air Travel; Also, Apple's HD Video Plot Thickens
April 2005
April 28, 2005
Flight of Fancy: DayJet May Be the First Peer-to-Peer Airline
April 21, 2005
WiMaxian Revolution: The Biggest Winners From WiMax Will Be BitTorrent Users
April 14, 2005
A Cup of Bandwidth: Bob Quietly "Borrows" Internet Service From Three Neighbors at Once
April 7, 2005
Patricide: Your Telephone Company's Biggest Threat for Last-Mile Competition May Come From Its Own Mobile Phone Operation
March 2005
March 31, 2005
There's No Show Like an Old Show: Reinventing Television Might Mean Looking Back Rather Than Forward
March 24, 2005
Hide and Seek: VoIP Users Strike Back Against Network Providers, but Will It Be enough? No.
March 17, 2005
Bursted Not Busted: Burst Really Did Win Its Case With Microsoft and Here's Why
March 10, 2005
Mr. Idei's Kurosawa Ending: The Rise of Howard Stringer at Sony is More Properly the Fall of Ken Kutaragi
March 3, 2005
Effortless: The Best days of Voice-over-IP Telephone Service May Already Have Passed
February 2005
February 24, 2005
Killing Us With Kindness: At Microsoft, Even Good Deeds Are Predatory
February 17, 2005
It's the Software, Stupid!: The Cell Processor May (or May Not) Defeat X86, but the Deciding Factor Will Be Software, Not Hardware
February 10, 2005
What Carly Will Be Missing: High-Tech is Going Through Another Revolution, and Ms. Fiorina Couldn't Keep Up
February 3, 2005
Small is Beautiful: Compared to the Mac Mini, AMD's PIC is Half the Computer at Less Than Half the Price. What's Wrong With That?
January 2005
January 27, 2005
Dethroning King Gillette: Is iPod the Razor or the Blade?
January 20, 2005
Mini Me: The New Mac Mini is All About Movies
January 14, 2005
Help Me Help You: Open Source Development as a Substitute for Political Will
January 7, 2005
Betting a Billion: Bob's Predictions for 2005