http://www.nwfusion.com/Home/pmcnamara.html Articles by Paul McNamara, including 'Net Buzz. Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2012 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2012/052112-buzz.html?source=nww_rss 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. Paul McNamara 2012-05-21T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2012/050712-buzz.html?source=nww_rss 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. Paul McNamara 2012-05-07T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2012/042312-buzz.html?source=nww_rss Last week I posted to Buzzblog a list of the 50 best "bragging rights" claimed by users of Google+. Paul McNamara 2012-04-23T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2012/040912-buzz.html?source=nww_rss 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. Paul McNamara 2012-04-09T06:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2012/032612-buzz.html?source=nww_rss 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. Paul McNamara 2012-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2012/031212-buzz.html?source=nww_rss 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. Paul McNamara 2012-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2012/022712-buzz.html?source=nww_rss 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. Paul McNamara 2012-02-27T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2012/021312-buzz.html?source=nww_rss 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? Paul McNamara 2012-02-13T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2012/012312-buzz.html?source=nww_rss A literal reading of this survey question leads inevitably to a pair of correct answers: absolutely yes and absolutely not. Paul McNamara 2012-01-23T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2011/121911-buzz.html?source=nww_rss 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. Paul McNamara 2011-12-19T12:00:00-04:00