Rob Fixmer

Only the same Cold War frenzy that sent human beings to the moon and launched the microelectronics revolution could have created a true paradigm shift like the Internet. Competition, whatever its roots, brings out the best in us. And only Ira Magaziner, architect of the convoluted bureaucratic nightmare known as the Clinton health-care plan, could […]

Napster is the genie the recording industry cant put back in the lamp, and each day it becomes clearer that the rise of this popular music swapping technology marked the dawn of a chaotic period for the music business and consumers alike. For the major record labels, the choices range from grim to lose-lose. Their […]

Popular wisdom has it that this is the Year of Wireless. But that may be wishful thinking when it comes to consumer devices, because most cell phones, handheld computers and Internet appliances are reaching a stage of complexity that makes them all but impossible to use. For example, I find myself too often staring at […]

Those of us who live in the burbs and work in the traffic hell of Manhattan have no trouble predicting that the real business opportunities in the foreseeable future are going to lie in infrastructure technologies and communications services. We have an enormous bandwidth problem in New York. Even the fastest, most expensive car in […]