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Comment The users want more at the same price and are rightly appalled at the sorry state of broadband, not to mention the poor service levels they are receiving. Compiled at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, and dispatched to... [23 Nov 2009]
'Wi-fi hack makes plan to ban file-sharers unfair'
News In a blog post last week, Andrew Heaney, TalkTalk's executive director for strategy and regulation, said a test carried out by the ISP found a high percentage of domestic wi-fi connections are at risk from hacking. [19 Oct 2009]
iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
News Peter Cochrane examined the disparity between what the industry promised and what 3G delivers in his blog: 3G Reality bytes. Another high-speed connectivity of interest to silicon.com readers last month was fibre -... [06 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The turntable spins on
Comment Obviously, those living with access to 'real broadband' will fare well, while the rest will be frozen out of this market. Compiled at my home on a sunny autumn day over a morning coffee and dispatched to silicon.com via... [24 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Singapore's fibre paradox
Comment I checked with the manager and he assured me that 1Mbps was the norm and this was considered to be broadband. You can watch a video I shot while in Thailand, about their broadband here. Compiled at my... [30 Jul 2009]
Why your business should use Twitter
Comment First, a blog is added to the corporate website, updated daily with new thoughts and ideas from the management team, but steering well away from advertising the company - and instead keeping focused on ideas about the... [09 Jul 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Baker's dozen - a lesson for broadband
Comment Take broadband service. If two of us purchase a broadband service of 'up to' 8Mbps at £22 per month, and I get 6.5Mbps and you get 2.7Mbps, should we be content, and should trading standards officers let... [11 Jun 2009]
Amazon: 'Don't have cloud bandwidth? Send us your drives'
News In an Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog post, the team noted that "hard drives are getting bigger more rapidly than internet connections are getting faster", and said a service such as Import/Export had been frequently... [22 May 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Squeeze more speed out of your broadband
Comment See more details in my previous blog. Before I started the test, my two broadband lines were maxing out at 6.5 and 3Mbps respectively. Compiled at my home near Woodbridge, UK, and dispatched to... [20 May 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Become a bandwidth scavenger
Comment For more details on my set-up, see a blog from last year. Never has a subject been so studied, debated and reported with such little understanding and positive action as broadband in the UK. For me this... [06 May 2009]
Opera takes Turbo speed browsing for a test drive
News Opera Turbo runs on a person's PC, fetching data not just from the original website but also from an Opera server that compresses that site's text and images on the fly, Opera's Roberto Mateu said in a Friday blog post... [17 Mar 2009]
Legal Eye: Social networkers get smart about privacy rights
Comment Co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg insisted via his blog that: "In reality, we wouldn't share your information in a way you wouldn't want. In the advent of 'broadband for all' by 2012 (as outlined in the... [05 Mar 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Digital Britain? Not quite
Comment On 11 February the UK government publicly committed to broadband for every home by 2012. But the bad news is they see 2Mbps as broadband. And where oh where is the aspiration to join the world... [19 Feb 2009]
Google and friends kick start white space database
News Richard Whitt, Google's Washington Telecom and Media Counsel, said in a blog post: "We don't plan to become a database administrator ourselves but do want to work with the FCC to make sure that a white spaces database... [09 Feb 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: New password theory
Comment In contrast my hotel in Phoenix, and here at the airport, there is free broadband access at well over 10 times faster than the UK/EU rate. Written at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport and dispatched to silicon.com from the BA... [22 Dec 2008]
