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Andrew Odlyzko: Selected citations in the popular press

Victorian rail mania has lessons for AI investors, Edward Chancellor, Reuters Breaking Views column, July 12, 2024. [online version]
Tulip bulbs, bored apes & bubbles, Patrick Boyle podcast, [YouTube video]
What the poet, playboy and prophet of bubbles can still teach us, Tim Harford, Financial Times Magazine, January 28,2023. [online version]
FTX crypto bubble really is the worst of its kind, Merryn Somerset Webb, Bloomberg, November 24, 2022. [online version]
Meet Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto-enablers , Om Malik, The Spectator World, November 16, 2022. [online version]
Picturing the First Financial Crash , David Marcus, The Deal, October 4, 2022. [online version]
From 1720 to Tesla, FOMO Never Sleeps. The South Sea bubble is the classic story of an investing mania. Are investors today any wiser? , Jason Zweig, Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2020. [online version]
Coronavirus crash is inverted bubble, Edward Chancellor, Reuters Breakingviews, March 24, 2020. [online version]
The lesson for diagnosing a bubble, Tim Harford, Financial Times, January 13-14, 2018. [online version]
Isaac Newton learned about markets' gravity, Jason Zweig, Wall Street Journal, November 9, 2017. [online version]
Networking 2.0 series: What's next for professional networking?, Bennett Voyles, CKGSB Knowledge, September 10, 2017. [online version]
Who needs hard drives? Scientists store film clip in DNA, Gina Kolata, New York Times, July 13, 2017. [online version]
As Bitcoin ETF nears, analysts warn of trading frenzy, Rob Curran, Wall Street Journal, February 6, 2017. [online version]
Would You Pay 25 Cents to Read an Article? Blendle Certainly Thinks So, Julia Greenberg, Wired online blogs, March 23, 2016. [online version]
The banking industry's Uber moment: A more efficient oligopoly?, Bennett Voyles, CKGSB Knowledge, February 15, 2016. [online version]
Big data: sono loro i veri nemici del libero mercato?, Patrizia Licata, Corriere delle Comunicazioni, October 30, 2015. [online version]
Why we need gigabit networks, Paul Budde, CircleID, September 29, 2015. [online version]
Hibernia Networks bets speed of new fiber optic cable will win customers in crowded North Atlantic corridor, Amy Nordrum, International Business Times, August 12, 2015. [online version]
Waarom luchtbellen nodig zijn, Koen Schoors, De Tijd, April 1, 2015. [online version]
New tech bubble reflects shift in wealth creation, settling in of digital age, Dave Beal, MinnPost, March 31, 2015. [online version]
Companies in the Internet economy: The dawn of networks,, Bennett Voyles, CKGSB Knowledge, February 24, 2015. [online version]
Plush life: Why did people lose their minds over Beanie Babies?, Mark Joseph Stern, Slate, February 3, 2015. [online version]
Caught in the crossfire of the data throttling battle: The FTC vs. AT&T lawsuit is just the beginning of the war over mobile data law, Lauren Young, ScienceLine, january 8, 2015. [online version]
University officials, experts weigh in on net neutrality, Parker Lemke, Minnesota Daily, September 24, 2014. [online version]
NSA data collection ineffective against terrorism and dangerous for democracy, say mathematicians, John Leonard, Computing, July 17, 2014. [online version]
The fall of net neutrality: Cable's plot to destroy the internet, Chris Parker, City Pages, July 9, 2014. [online version]
NSA data collection ineffective against terrorism and dangerous for democracy, say mathematicians, John Leonard, Computing, July 17, 2014. [online version]
Mathematicians urge colleagues to refuse to work for the NSA, Kashmir Hill, Forbes, June 5, 2014. [online version]
No, Americans are not all to blame for the financial crisis: Exposing the big lie of the post-crash economy, Dean Starkman, New Republic, March 9, 2014. [online version]
Cable industry finally admits caps not about congestion after insisting for years caps were about congestion, Karl Bode, DSL Reports, Jan. 17, 2013. [online version]
How internet will change the world in next 30 year, Bennett Voyles, Times of India, Jan. 7, 2013. [online version]
Facebook values itself based on Metcalfe's Law, but the market is using Zipf's, Anthony Wing Kosner, Forbes online magazine, May 31, 2012. [online version]
Is Facebook IPO a sign of tech bubble 2.0?, Bennett Voyles, Economic Times, May 20, 2012. [online version]
Bandwidth explosion: As Internet use soars, can bottlenecks be averted?, Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, May 1, 2012. [online version]
Why bandwidth caps could be a threat to competition, Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, April 30, 2012. [online version]
Facebook, Google must adapt as users embrace 'unsocial' networks, Ben Kunz, Bloomberg Business Week, April 19, 2012. [online version]
A distant mirror: Turning back the clock to consider America's future, Thomas Donlan, Barron's, April 14, 2012. [online version]
Optical delusion? Fiber booms again, despite bust, Anton Troianovski, Wall Street Journal, April 3, 2012. [online version]
Like building refrigerators: Bell Labs and the end of game-changing innovation, Jon Gertner, TIME.com, March 27, 2012. [online version]
What hath Bell Labs wrought? The future, review of Jon Gertner's 'The Idea Factory', Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, March 20, 2012. [online version]
The extraordinary popular delusion of bubble spotting, Jason Zweig, Wall Street Journal, Nov. 5, 2011. [online version]
Odlyzko suggests cyber security improvements, Diana Ming, The Dartmouth, April 14, 2011. [online version]
From campus to commerce, Dennis Boone, Ingram's, March 2011, pp. 56-61. [online version]
When will the next bubble burst? Researchers at the University of Minnesota create a tool for measuring financial bubbles, J. J. McCorvey, Inc., March 1, 2011, p. 28. [online version]
A human right: Will the Internet go truly free?, Jeremy Hsu, Innovation News Daily, February 15, 2011. [online version]
Maybe this is the year you'll watch all six 'Star War' movies on your smartphone, Brandon Bailey, Mercury News, January 31, 2011. [online version]
U.S. Internet shutdown would 'paralyze the economy', Jeremy Hsu with Matt Liebowitz, TechNews Daily, January 31, 2011. [online version]
Communication technologies that governments can -- and cannot -- easily squash, Adam Hadhazy, TechNews Daily, January 28, 2011. [online version]
Regulating Google's results? Law prof calls "search neutrality" incoherent, Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, January 19, 2011. [online version]
Is pay-per-use for broadband inevitable?, Joe Weinman, GigaOm, Dec. 11, 2010. [online version]
And the winners were..., The Economist, Dec. 11, 2010. [online version]
Peer pressures could strain the Web, Scott Woolley, Technology Review online, Dec. 6, 2010. [online version]
A virtual counter-revolution, Economist, September 4, 2010. [online version]
The Web is dead. Long live the Internet, Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff, Wired, September 2010. [online version]
Now that the exaflood's debunked, fear the exacloud!, Karl Bode, Tech Dirt, May 4, 2010. [online version]
Search neutrality? How Google became a "neutrality" target, Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, April 29, 2010. [online version]
Forget the exaflood - get ready for the "exacloud"!, Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, April 28, 2010. [online version]
'Virus' as the new 'Axis of Evil', Tom Kuntz, New York Times "Idea of the Day" blog, April 13, 2010. [online version]
Bubbles: a Victorian lesson in mania, Edward Chancellor, Financial Times, April 12, 2010. [online version]
U.S. Court Curbs F.C.C. Authority on Web Traffic, Edward Wyatt, New York Times, April 7, 2010. [online version]
Enter the matrix: the deep law that shapes our reality, Mark Buchanan, New Scientist, April 7, 2010. [online version]
The 1830s railway mania: sole instance of a successful 'boom', Manas Chakravarty, Live Mint, March 26, 2010. [online version]
Historian finds tech bubble that didn't pop (180 years ago), Matthew Lasar, Ars Technica, March 22, 2010. [online version]
National Broadband Plan not ambitious enough, experts say, Jeremy Hsu, TechNewsDaily, March 17, 2010. [online version]
All aboard The Bubble Express, Lee Gomes, Forbes, March 15, 2010. [online version]
Candidates find incumbent advantage extends to Web, Sara Jerome, National Journal, March 4, 2010. [online version]
Breaking up: Will the rapid growth in data traffic overwhelm wireless networks?, Economist, Feb. 13, 2010. [online version]
Iran vs. Google: How hard is it to build a 'Surveil Mail' system?, Sharon Weinberger, AOL News, Feb. 12, 2010. [online version]
Why advertised broadband speeds lag behind reality, Jeremy Hsu, TechNewsDaily, Feb. 7, 2010. [online version]
How fast is your Web connection?, Peter Wayner, New York Times, Jan. 21, 2010. [online version]
The true economic value of the Internet? Lots of people, Matthew Lasar, Ars Technica, Jan. 15, 2010. [online version]
Beyond the ether, Economist, Dec. 12, 2009. [online version]
Bing and Wolfram try to take on Google, Cecilia Kang, Washington Post, Nov. 12, 2009. [online version]
Report urges increasing Minnesota's broadband access, Dan Olson, Minnesota Public Radio News, Nov. 6, 2009. [online transcript]
Net neutrality under public debate, Jerimiah Oetting, Minnesota Daily, Nov. 5, 2009. [online version]
5 million Star Trek pirates vs. 1 FCC broadband plan, Matthew Lasar, Ars Technica, Nov. 2, 2009. [online version]
After net neutrality, will we need "Google neutrality?", Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, Oct. 28, 2009. [online version]
King Connectivity, Robert Cyran, Business Standard, Oct. 28, 2009. [online version]
Kurzweil receives Innovation Award, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Oct. 26, 2009. [online version]
Carriers eye pay-as-you-go Internet, Christopher Rhoads and Niraj Sheth, Wall Street Journal, Oct. 21, 2009. Available to subscribers at [online version]
Why metered broadband won't last, Ed Gubbins, TelephonyOnline, Oct. 7, 2009. [online version]
FCC to revisit Net Neutrality in the U.S., James V. DeLong, the Gov Monitor, Oct. 4, 2009. [online version]
Mobile Internet Data & Implications for the Wireless Industry, Alan Weissberger, WiMax.com, Aug. 16, 2009. [online version]
CRTC to decide on new rules for internet service providers, Emily Chung, CBC News, July 16, 2009. [online version]
Competition could clear internet congestion: small ISPs, Emily Chung, CBC News, July 9, 2009. [online version]
Anti-throttling gets broad CRTC hearing, Matt Hartley, Financial Post, July 9, 2009. [online version]
Editorial comment: Cyber jam, Times of India, May 5, 2009. [online version]
Eight things you didn't know about the internet, Duncan Graham-Rowe, New Scientist, May 2, 2009. [online version]
Optical Fiber Conference opens: Broadband demand continues, Martin Rowe, Test and Measurement World, March 25, 2009. [online version]
Net neutrality activists want your online John Doe, Roberto Rocha, Montreal Gazette, Feb. 20, 2009. [online version]
Newspaper industry should look to cable for help, Jeff Segal, breakingviews.com, Feb. 13, 2009. [online version; registration required]
Odlyzko: lousy voice leaves telco value on the shelf, Grahame Lynch, CommsDay, Jan. 28, 2009. [online version]
Existe o risco de um apagao na internet?, Camila Fusco, Exame, Jan. 2, 2009. [online version]
Traffic jams on the Web, Joe Dysart, Electrical Wholesaling, Jan. 1, 2009. [online version]
The beauty of bubbles, Economist, Dec. 20, 2008. [online version]
A blueprint for Internet investment, Johna Till Johnson, CIO, Dec. 17, 2008. [online version]
Surviving the exaflood, Economist, Dec. 6, 2008. [online version]
Exaflood still MIA according to latest Internet traffic data, Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, Dec. 2, 2008. [online version]
Szalenstwo baniek internetowych, Jerzy Urbanowicz, Nowe Panstwo, no. 371, 3/2008.
Global Internet traffic routes around US eroding its dominance, Indrajit Basu, Government Technology News, Oct. 21, 2008. [online version]
Telecom knockout, Scott Woolley, Forbes, Oct. 13, 2008. [online version]
AT&T, NBC lump piracy in with spam, malware as net pollution, Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, Sept. 25, 2008. [online version]
Traffic growth isn't using up the Internet, Stephen Wildstrom, Business Week, Sept. 15, 2008. [online version]
On the Net: `Content' is new label for everything, Jake Coyle, Associated Press (and thus many newspapers), Sept. 4, 2008. [online version]
Deconstructing The Exaflood Myth, Karl Bode, DSL Reports, Sept. 3, 2008. [online version]
P2P traffic drops as streaming video grows in popularity, Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, Sept. 2, 2008. [online version]
Internet traffic begins to bypass the U.S., John Markoff, New York Times, August 30, 2008. [online version]
Researcher: encourage more, not less Internet traffic, Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, August 6, 2008. [online version]
Questioning the coming Internet clog, Ed Gubbins, Telephony Online, Aug. 5, 2008. [online version]
DPI: The good, the bad, the stuff no one talks about, Carol Wilson, Telephony Online, July 18, 2008. [online version]
Researchers rebuild their effort to rebuild the Internet, Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 18, 2008. [online version]
Internet gridlock, Larry Hardesty, Technology Review, July/August 2008. [online version]
Responding to the exaflood, Larry Kingsley, Broadband Properties, June 2008, p 24. [online version]
Here we go again? A new boom in cable-laying--but this time it is rational, Economist, May 22, 2008. [online version]
Lawmakers, consumer groups, ISPs debate future of Internet 'neutrality', Bill Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 4, 2008. [online version]
Does online video threaten the net?, BBC, April 29, 2008. [online transcript]
What's the next big thing for the wireless industry?, Mike Antonucci, Mercury News, April 27, 2008. [online version]
Keeping pace? Torrents of traffic and the Internet backbone, Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, April 13, 2008. [online version]
Problem solved? Maverick mathematician claims--again--to have unravelled elusive hypothesis, Craig Offman, National Post, March 24, 2008. [online version]
Video road hogs stir fear of Internet traffic jam, Steve Lohr, New York Times, March 13, 2008. [online version]
DRM: a slow clue train?, Scott Bradner, Network World, March 4, 2008. [online version]
Internet cable cuts raise alarms over infrastructure vulnerabilities, Brad Reed, Network World, January 31, 2008. [online version]
How fast is the Internet growing?, Twin Cities Business, January 2007, p. 20.
W piatek Dzien Kryptologii na UAM, Gazeta Wyborcza, January 23, 2008. [online version]
Metaphor mania: The Internet is ..., Tim Greene, Network World, January 7, 2008. [online version]
Das Internet wird nicht kollabieren, Peter Frey, Die Welt, December 28, 2007. [online version]
And the winners are..., The Economist, Dec. 8, 2007. [online version]
Internet overload: painting tomorrow something like today, Scott Bradner, Network World, November 30, 2007. [online version]
Getting over YouTube, Ed Gubbins, Telephony Online, October 8, 2007. [online version]
Control vs. usability: What's DRM's future?, Scott Bradner, Network World, October 2, 2007. [online version]
Weaving a brave new Web, Kevin Coughlin, Star Ledger, September 30, 2007. [online version]
Living life on the Internet, Brent MacLean, Canada Free Press, September 30, 2007. [online version]
Internet pipes not ready to burst, researcher says, Bob Brown, Network World, September 19, 2008. [online version]
Odlyzko returns: Internet traffic growth slower than thought, Australian bandwidth use a fraction of HK, Korea's, CommsDay Australasia, September 18, 2007. [online version]
A Net in neutral?, Steve Alexander, Star Tribune, September 15, 2007. [online version]
Is a Web Bubble bursting?, Robert Cyran, Wall Street Journal, September 15, 2007. Available to subscribers at [online version]
Net capacity: Time to widen the road?, John P. Mello Jr., TechNewsWorld, August 17, 2007. [online version]
Introducing AT&T, your Internet security company, Sarah D. Scalet, CSO Magazine, July/August 2007. [online version]
Making Connections, William Baldwin, Forbes, May 7, 2007. [online version]
Will the Internet collapse?, John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine, May 1, 2007. [online version]
Videos have Net bursting at the seams, Jon Van, Chicago Tribune, February 23, 2007. [online version]
Don't expect video to exhaust fiber glut, Jim Duffy, Network World, February 19, 2007. [online version]
U expert's research may affect 'neutrality' debate, Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, St. Paul Pioneer Press, January 8, 2007. [online version]
Convergencia na vida real, Ricardo Cesar, Exame, December 28, 2006. [online version]
Web site to monitor Internet traffic pulse: University of Minnesota readies Web site for tracking, analyzing the Internet, Bob Brown, Network World, December 18, 2006. [online version]
And the winners are...: Innovation Awards: Our annual prizes recognise successful innovators in seven categories. Here are this year's winners, The Economist, December 2, 2006. [online version]
ICT-professor: Laat overheid glasvezel leggen, Vincent Dekker, Trouw, November 2, 2006. [online version]
Your television is ringing, a survey of telecoms convergence, Tom Standage, The Economist, October 14, 2006. [online version]
Online journals challenge scientific peer review, Alicia Chang, Associated Press, October 1, 2006. [online version]
Clear as a bell one day, fuzzy and garbled the next, Ken Belson, New York Times, September 27, 2006. [online version]
If it wasn't for me, would Bob Metcalfe have found Ethernet?, Ron Rosenbaum, The New York Observer, September 25, 2006. [online version]
Bell Labs' fate raises suspicions of merger, Kevin Coughlin, Star Ledger, September 4, 2006. [online version]
Will all of us get our 15 minutes on a YouTube video?, Lee Gomes, Wall Street Journal, August 30, 2006. Available to subscribers at [WSJ online version]
Who said the net was fair?, Celeste Biever, New Scientist, August 12, 2006. [online version]
Web 2.0's real secret sauce: Network effects, Dion Hinchcliffe, Sys-Con Italia, July 17, 2006. [online version]
Exploring and Shaping International Futures, Barry S. Hughes and Evan E. Hillebrand, Paradigm Publishers, 2006.
Telecoms giants threaten freedom and equality on net, Celeste Biever, New Scientist, June 24, 2006. [online version]
Speed bumps on the information highway, Tom Abate, San Francisco Chronicle, June 18, 2006. [online version]
Technology often sacrificed for frills, Paul Gilster, The News & Observer, June 14, 2006. [online version]
U.S. focused on obtaining long-distance phone data, company officials indicate, Matt Richtel and Ken Belson, New York Times, May 18, 2006. [online version]
With rising Internet traffic, spare fiber-optic lines fill up, Mark Heinzl and Shawn Young, Wall Street Journal, April 27, 2006. Available to subscribers at [WSJ online version]
El Dorado on the 'Net, Scott Bradner, Network World, March 6, 2006. [online version]
Soak the rich, William Baldwin, Forbes, December 12, 2005. [online version]
And the winners are..., The Economist, December 10, 2005. [online version]
Peer-to-peer traffic: Another Internet myth is born, Peter Sevcik, Business Communications Review, November, 2005. [online version]
How fast is fast?, Minnesota Public Radio Midmorning talk program with Kerri Miller, November 9, 2005. [online access]
The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship, John Willinsky, MIT Press, 2005.
Peers or not? Cogent, Level 3 disagree, Carol Wilson, Telephony Online, October 5, 2005. [online version]
Future by users, not providers, Brendan O'Keefe, Australian IT, September 7, 2005. [online version]
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Ray Kurzweil, Viking, 2005.
Fulfilling the Internet's potential value, George Spafford, IT Management, June 21, 2005. [online version]
Broadband demand booms in China, Rebecca Buckman, Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2005. Available to subscribers at [WSJ online version]
Tech firms reach out for research, Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 15, 2005. [online version]
Mobile e-mail, The Economist, May 14, 2005. [online version]
Why the glut in fiber lines remains huge, Shawn Young, Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2005. Available to subscribers at [WSJ online version]
Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers, Dan Rockmore, Pantheon Books, 2005.
Now, can you find its square root?, Kenneth Chang, New York Times, March 29, 2005. [online version]
Metcalfe's Law . . . ain't?, Paul McNamara, Network World, March 21, 2005. [online version]
Researchers: Metcalfe's Law overshoots the mark, Stephen Shankland, ZDNet News, March 14, 2005. [online version]
Top tech city: Minneapolis, MN, Matthew Power, Popular Science, March 2005, pp. 41-48 and 90. [online version]
The need for speed, Joe Depietro, The Oracle, February 25, 2005. [online version]
Fast forward, Tampa Tribune, February 21, 2005.
The fall of a corporate queen, The Economist, February 5, 2005. [online version]
Optimism is not in the air at AT&T Labs: Research deemed low priority at SBC, Kevin Coughlin, Star-Ledger, February 2, 2005. [online version]
Ma Bell's death knell began with deregulation, Deborah Cohen, Reuters, January 31, 2005. [online version]
MCI still struggling to shake off scandal, Shawn McCarthy, Globe and Mail, January 19, 2005. [online version]
WorldCom's audacious failure and its toll on an industry, Ken Belson, New York Times, January 18, 2005.
Frenzy: Bubbles, Busts, and How to Come Out Ahead, Carl Haacke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Amateur puts maths riddle to the test, Jenny Hogan, New Scientist, November 27, 2004.
Riemanns Vermutung und kein Ende: Mathematiker auf der Jagd nach den Nullstellen der Zetafunktion, Frankfurter Allgemeine, November 24, 2004.
The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science, Horace F. Judson, Harcourt, 2004.
History and the internet: Will charging based on content come to the internet? The history of transportation offers clues, The Economist, October 23, 2004. [online version]
Choosing your bed: Why complex markets lead to price discrimination..., Matthew Higginson, Budapest Business Journal, October 18, 2004. [online version]
Ethernet over SONET/SDH -- The best of both worlds, Steve West, Converge Network Digest, October 14, 2004. [online version]
On the cheap: Asians are buying up U.S. digital networks, Rana Foroohar, Newsweek International, October 11, 2004 and Newsweek, October 18, 2004. [online version]
Oddballs: Mathematicians have found that it's easier to pack spheres in some dimensions than in others, Erica Klarreich, Science News, October 2, 2004. [references and sources]
War of the wires: Special technology report: The cable and phone giants are in a battle royal to provide new data, voice, and video services, James M. Pethokoukis, U.S. News and World Report, September 27, 2004. [online version]
And the winners are ...: Innovation Awards: Our annual prizes recognise innovators in six technology categories. Here are this year's winners, Technology Quarterly, The Economist, September 18, 2004. [online version]
VOIP: King of new services, R. Scott Raynovich, Light Reading, September 14, 2004. [online version]
Broadband myths debunked, Peter Heywood, Light Reading, September 8, 2004. [online version]
E-micropayments sweat the small stuff, David Geer, IEEE Computer, vol. 37, no. 8, August 2004, pp. 19-22.
AT&T retreats from consumer business, (in Japanese), Yoichi Shinohara, Nikkei, July 28, 2004.
AT&T to ease out of home phone service, Alex Pham, Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2004. [online version]
Prof has made a career out of solving puzzle: Purdue mathematician may have the answer to $1 million question, Barb Berggoetz, Indianapolis Star, June 28, 2004. [online version]
Will spam render e-mail a useless productivity tool?, Grant Buckler, Computing Canada, June 11, 2004, vol. 30, no. 9. [online version]
Mathematicians sceptical over claimed breakthrough, Jenny Hogan, New Scientist, June 11, 2004. [online version]
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Societies, and Nations, James Surowiecki, Doubleday, 2004, p. 283.
In the era of cheap DVD's, anyone can be a producer, Peter Wayner, New York Times, May 20, 2004.
Mathematics legend inspires eBay pitch, Glennda Chui, The Mercury News, April 30, 2004. [online version]
Talent leak drains AT&T think tank: Once a bastion of cutting-edge research, it's lost its star power, Kevin Coughlin, Star-Ledger, March 21, 2004. [online version]
Sensis adopts jousting position, David Walker, Sydney Morning Herald, March 16, 2004. [online version]
Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing, Roger Lowenstein, Penguin, 2004, p. 148.
Tech trends: Internet calling, Nicole Davis, Popular Science, February 2004, p. 40.
The Internet is not a railroad, or is it?, Scott Bradner, Network World, January 12, 2004. [online version]
Packet racket: VOIP buzzkill?, Jo Maitland, Lightreading, January 9, 2004. [online version]
And the winners were..., Technology Quarterly, The Economist, December 6, 2003. [online version]
The telecom myth buster, interview with Grahame Lynch, Bandwidth Magazine, November/December 2003. [online magazine]
VoIP, Minesota Public Radio Marketplace program with Bob Moon, November 13, 2003.
What is the most important problem in math today?, Gina Kolata, New York Times, November 11, 2003.
Next-generation tech: Individuals first, Dan Gillmor, The Mercury News, November 10, 2003. [online version]
Bandwidth price revolution, Light Reading Insider, vol. 3, no. 10, October 2003. [access information]
New connections: Phone calls made over the Internet are the latest telecom buzz, Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, St. Paul Pioneer Press, October 22, 2003. [online version]
They're watching you: The internet is eroding privacy. It also allows unprecedented price discrimination. Are the two related?, The Economist, October 16, 2003. [online version]
World telecoms: Beyond the bubble, Tom Standage, The Economist, October 9, 2003. [online version]
Are you paying too much?, interview with Leo Laporte, The Screen Savers, Tech TV, September 22, 2003. [show notes]
The Big Lie: The rise and fraud of WorldCom, CNBC documentary, September 9, 2003.
Boffin forecasts telecom rebound, R. Scott Raynovich, Lightreading, September 9, 2003. [online version]
Lesson for broadband from days of the penny post, David Walker, Sydney Morning Herald, September 2, 2003. [online version]
Prime obsession: Will the greatest problem in mathematics ever be resolved?, Margaret Wertheim , LA Weekly, August 22-28, 2003. [online version]
The next fiber frontier - home: Optical networks posed to expand into neighborhoods, Vikas Bajaj, Dallas Morning News, August 24, 2003.
Telecom investors envision potential in failed networks, Dennis K. Berman, Wall Street Journal, August 14, 2003. Available to subscribers at [WSJ online version]
Price discrimination may come to Internet, Brian Bergstein, Associated Press, August 7, 2003. [online version]
Price discrimination, interview with Jon Gordon on Minnesota Public Radio's Future Tense program, August 6, 2003. Available for replay at [online version]
Privacy's a high price for a bargain, Rupert Goodwins, ZDNet, August 4, 2003. [online version]
Sharper tools for discriminatory pricing, Jane Black, Business Week Online, July 31, 2003. [online version]
Privacy incursions to support price discrimination, slashdot discussion thread, July 31, 2003. [slashdot thread]
(in Japanese), Yoichi Shinohara, Nikkei, July 22, 2003.
Still a challenge to make money from Net, researcher says, Dave Ebner, The Globe and Mail, July 7, 2003. [online version]
The spectrum of Riemannium, Brian Hayes, American Scientist, July-August 2003, pp. 296-300. [online version]
Sorry, wrong number: How to separate fact from fiction in the Information Age, Jonathan G. Koomey, IEEE Spectrum, June 2003, pp. 11-12.
Internet myth buster questions long-haul, content-driven business models, Grahame Lynch, TelecomTV.com, June 27, 2003. [online version]
Report explores Internet growth puzzle, Marguerite Reardon, Lightreading, June 20, 2003. [online version]
Commentary: WorldCom's real fraud, Grahame Lynch, America's Network, June 18, 2003. [online version]
BertelsmannSpringer is sold to private equity firms, Richard Poynder, Information Today, May 27, 2003. [online version]
Computers - Next - Don't be fooled, Ziggy, David Walker, Sydney Morning Herald, May 27, 2003.
Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist, Om Malik, Wiley, 2003.
Kepler's Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve One of the Oldest Math Problems in the World, George G. Szpiro, Wiley, 2003.
The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics, Marcus du Sautoy, HarperCollins, 2003.
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, John Derbyshire, Joseph Henry Press, 2003.
Softswitch Forum goes squish, Jo Maitland, Lightreading, April 10, 2003. [online version]
Vision is the theme at Lyra Imaging Syposium: Shortage or surplus?, The Hard Copy Observer, vol. 13, no. 2, February 2003.
An unsolved mystery, Jeff Hecht, Laser Focus World, vol. 39, no. 2, February 2003. [online version]
Could grid computing restore the Internet growth curve?, Robert B. Cohen, America's Network, February 1, 2003. [online version]
2003 outlook: The experts speak, Optical Oracle, vol. 3, no. 1, January 2003. A brief synopsis in The bright side of 2003, Mary Jander, Lightreading, January 15, 2003, [online version]
Global's Winnick steps down, Alex Pham, Los Angeles Times, December 31, 2002. [online version]
Echo and the Money Men; or misinformation in the Information Economy, Len Ellis, ClickZ Network, December 18, 2002. [online version]
The Network Letter: Internet traffic growth and network spending--Part I, Karen Hold, Network Technology Report, vol. 9, no. 1, December 2002, pp. 1-3.
Web calling roils the telecom world, Simon Romero, New York Times, December 16, 2002. [online version]
Price is limiting demand for broadband, Simon Romero, New York Times, December 5, 2002. [online version]
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