Title: Internet collapses and other InfoWorld punditry /
Authors: Metcalfe, Robert M.,
Date: 2000
Publisher: IDG Books Worldwide,
Physical description: xxiii, 324 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: Z
Abstract: This book contains original columns written between 1991 and 2000 for Infoworld.
Contents: Let's Not Call it Cyberspace -- Microsoft versus the Computer Industry -- Wire Up Your Home and Stay There, but Not with ISDN/ADSL! -- Wireless Computing Will Flop ... Or Will It? -- The Oh-So-Slow Internet -- Internet Collapses -- Making ISPs Accountable -- Crypto, Privacy and Censorship -- The Billings Client-Server Patent and Undue Processes of Law -- The Dark Spam Tunnel -- The Pay-As-We-Go Internet -- The Telco Empires Strike Back -- Predictions for All Occasions -- I Think ICANN -- The Open-Sores Movement -- The Day the Internet Stock Bubble Burst.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Internet industry.; Internet--Economic aspects.; Internet--Political aspects.; Internet--Social aspects.; Metcalfe, Bob.; Microsoft Corporation.