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Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Tech blast-off
Video In his latest video blog, Peter Cochrane reports from Florida where he has been visiting Nasa's Merritt Island space centre. The media may be hung up on non-stick frying pans but Nasa's contribution to technology is massive and goes far beyond its... [01 Nov 2007]
Blog standard
AS Analysis In case you've been living on Mars for the past couple of years, a blog - or weblog as they were called back in the day - is a regularly updated online journal, on the subject of pretty much anything. [12 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No risk, no progress
Comment Fast forward a decade or two at a time and: no trains, trucks, cars or planes, no telecoms, no space exploration, no computers or IT, no modern medicines, no idea about evolution, the cosmos or much else, and yet more millions would have died as a... [03 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Unfair fallout
Comment In the West each individual is exposed to about 350 millirems per year on average, from a variety of sources including high-speed particles from outer space and our natural environment. Written at a hotel on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, and... [20 Sep 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Robots with guns
Comment But soon World War Two, the invention of the transistor, the space race and the arrival of the microprocessor quickly made it all very real. Written at a quiet café on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK and dispatched to silicon.com via a corporate WLAN [07 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.07.07
Round-Up Her website - complete with blog, of course - offers everything from a book on interpreting dreams to tarot card reading. She added: "I still do spells and potions the traditional way but the blog keeps me closer to potential clients and can be... [13 Jul 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Social networking
Cheat Sheet Users typically build an individual profile - which might consist of photos, contact details, a blog or favourite links - and make 'friends' with other users with whom they are linked in some way. Social networking is the business of engaging and... [15 Jun 2007]
Editor's Blog: Define this
Comment They are both important players in the broad tech space and may even feel they can define markets and product types. But usually in the name of marketing, though sometimes out of confusion or for cultural reasons, they vary too much. [23 May 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: NGNs - real or imaginary?
Comment A cable space that originally accommodated a few tens of calls could now deal with millions. Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi service in London on the same day [02 May 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: My changing TV habits
Comment And looking at the storage space dedicated to DVDs I can see that I am going to have to get around to transferring the entire collection onto a server ASAP. IPTV is gradually taking over my viewing time as conventional TV content seems to be... [30 Apr 2007]
Editor's Blog: Live from InfoSec
Comment One of the benefits of larger vendors choosing to step out of the InfoSec madness is more breathing space for start-ups looking for the oxygen of publicity. silicon.com editor-at-large Will Sturgeon is blogging from the InfoSecurity show at London... [24 Apr 2007]
Editor's Blog: Confusing communications?
Comment There were others, like the C&W angle to a big R&SA contract, and even Peter Cochrane chipped in with a blog about iris scanning at Heathrow Airport. It's not an easy thing to do but one thing - excuse me if it sounds obvious - is that, as analyst... [18 Apr 2007]
Is Google creating a Gphone?
News Among the evidence used to back up the theory are patents the company has filed on predictive mobile location-based search tech; the blog of one venture capitalist, saying he has been told by sources of a BlackBerry-like gadget in the offing that... [14 Mar 2007]
Editor's Blog: Wi-fi at conference and more
Comment Watch this space. Bit of a round-up this morning. Lots has been going on. Let me start with two things close to our heart - our annual CIO Forum event in the autumn and our Fair Wi-fi campaign. I mention these in the same breath because we are... [05 Mar 2007]
Editor's Blog: All communications in one place
Comment BT Global Services unit (I talked about Deutsche Telekom's service push last week in this blog) is increasingly important. But I'd be tempted to look more at what it's not doing in the consumer space. [09 Feb 2007]
