1. Enterprise software backlash. After being a temporarily fashionable haven from the dotcom collapse, enterprise software takes a beating

2. Hybrid social networking and blogging services emerge

3. VOIP makes the music industry’s woes look small compared to that of the telcos

4. Cisco (Linksys) release a cheap consumer WiFi/VOIP handset

5. Apple pits against Sony with a Media PC

6. Purchases of individual songs from music download sites bring about the return of meaningful top 40 charts.

7. Tivo gets ‘betamaxed’ by no rental fee PVR service

8. Bush defeats Dean, but a larger than normal voter turnout attributed to the ‘Internet effect’

9. Sharon’s support weakens in Israel

10. Blair survives publication of the Hutton report relatively unscathed

11. Saddam’s trial is postponed to 2005

12. Racism on the rise in Europe

13. Parmalat opens a wave of corporate scandals in Europe

14. Michael Jackson fires his attorney

15. Healthy living becomes fashionable, Wholefoods is in, McDonalds out

16. The slacker look is out, a booming economy brings about a return to sharp dressing, 60’s style

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