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Paul McNamara

News Editor

Network World, Inc.

and 'Net Buzz columnist.

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Recent articles by Paul McNamara

What's missing from the iPhone 5 rumor mill

May 21, 2012

A key tenet of Apple rumormongering is that Apple history repeats itself repeatedly: If Apple has done X, Y and 42 so much as twice consecutively, pundits posit that Apple will do X, Y and 42 a third time.

Watch Steve Jobs play FDR in Apple film, circa '1984'

May 07, 2012

You'll have to go to Buzzblog if you want to see Steve Jobs playfully portraying Franklin Delano Roosevelt - right down to the cigarette holder - it's there in all of its 20-second glory.

How to brag online without appearing to brag

April 23, 2012

Last week I posted to Buzzblog a list of the 50 best "bragging rights" claimed by users of Google+.

Lawsuit over missing iPhone magically disappears

April 09, 2012

It would seem the missing iPhone prototype wasn't "priceless," after all. Apple has apparently reached an out-of-court settlement to keep a San Francisco man from suing the company over what his attorney -- and virtually everyone else -- called an "outrageous" warrantless search of the man's home, car and computer last summer by two Apple employees accompanied by four city police officers.

AT&T happy to profit from fraud, feds allege

March 26, 2012

The federal government last week issued a remarkable complaint against AT&T: In essence, the Department of Justice alleges that the telecom giant has bilked U.S. customers out of millions of dollars by willfully failing to prevent the rampant abuse of a system designed to help the hearing impaired.

If the Dow had chosen Apple instead of Cisco

March 12, 2012

After the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed over 13,000 recently, San Jose Mercury News columnist Mike Cassidy made an impassioned case for including Apple in the index, a position he buttressed in part by citing an analysis by Adam Nash of Greylock Partners.

A 1985 gift to Jobs meets 2012 copyright law

February 27, 2012

Last week we learned that not even reverence for the memory of Steve Jobs can protect a YouTube video from a copyright-wielding entertainment industry behemoth.

In-flight Wi-Fi, missing science and a survey

February 13, 2012

At first blush, it's another one of those, "Sure, it will happen ... eventually," type of situations. I mean does anyone envision a commercial air fleet without readily available Internet service 20 years down the runway?

We need a better definition of paperless

January 23, 2012

A literal reading of this survey question leads inevitably to a pair of correct answers: absolutely yes and absolutely not.

Trashing the boss online still a bad idea, but ...

December 19, 2011

Three congressional aides recently lost their jobs in part because they are worthless layabouts who drink on the job, but also because they are but the latest to forget that Twitter lives on the Internet and tweets - especially those badmouthing your boss -- are visible to one and all.