Peter Cochrane
RSS Peter CochranePeter Cochrane's Blog: How the telcos could save themselves
Comment Compiled at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi network in a London coffee shop four days later. Over the past six months the internet has seen a noticeable slow down and an increased level of... [23 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Facebook saves teen from prison
Comment Compiled on the M6 while travelling from Birmingham to Ipswich. Dispatched to silicon.com via free wi-fi at The IoD in London two days later. I just chanced upon a news story about an innocent New York teenager who had armed robbery... [16 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Uneconomics
Comment Compiled at the IoD, Pall Mall, London, and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi connection. For more than a year now I have been in a state of mild bewilderment while watching and listening to the economic commentators. [29 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: United breaks guitars?
Comment Compiled at JFK Airport whilst waiting for BA 178 to fly me home via London Heathrow. Dispatched to silicon.com via a free LAN connection in the BA lounge. I just boarded an early morning shuttle bus from my hotel at JFK airport. [14 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: What is intelligence?
Comment Written in a coffee shop on the corner of 1st and 71st Street in New York on bright autumn day. Dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi node. For more than 20 years now I have worked on artificial life and intelligence systems. [08 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. For those creating software on the right side of the law, silicon.com... [06 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Linking up with Barack Obama?
Comment Compiled at my hotel in Jersey City, New Jersey, US, on a rainy autumn day and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi connection Travelling as I do in the course of my professional activities, I meet a lot of interesting and... [05 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The turntable spins on
Comment Compiled at my home on a sunny autumn day over a morning coffee and dispatched to silicon.com via wi-fi. Ten years ago a 19-year-old Shawn Fanning launched Napster and music file-sharing; and the property rights war has been raging ever... [24 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: 3G Reality bytes
Comment G data rate delivery likelihood (Image credit: Peter Cochrane) Compiled on BA 215 flying London to Boston and dispatched to silicon.com from my harbour hotel via a rather poor and expensive wi-fi service [14 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Software - keep it short and sweet
Comment Compiled in a car park in Redcar UK, edited in my garden on a warm summer evening, and dispatched to silicon.com from The IoD via a free wi-fi service two weeks later. For more than 35 years the immutable law of software has seen the... [07 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can tech end bloody wars?
Comment Compiled on the M6 driving to Birmingham, edited later in my hotel, and dispatched to silicon.com from Leeds via a free wi-fi service the next day. Throughout my life I have seen warfare mutate from the World War II model to terrorism,... [28 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Digital TV too annoying to watch?
Comment Compiled on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched to silicon.com from the Institute of Directors via a free wi-fi service an hour later. Many countries are migrating to digital broadcast services, with most in 'partial transition'... [11 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Who accepts my social networking invites?
Comment Compiled at my home early one morning when I just couldn't sleep, and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi service in London a week later. My earliest experiences of social networking alerted me to the cultural differences between... [05 Aug 2009]
Microsoft after Gates, Google Chrome, ID cards, printer woes and more
News Ubuntu vs Chrome was not the only epic battle being waged in July: silicon.com's futurist columnist Peter Cochrane may know more about wireless technology than the IEEE but can he get an all-in-one... [03 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Singapore's fibre paradox
Comment Compiled at my Singapore hotel upon arrival and despatched to silicon.com on the day of my departure from Changi Airport via a free wi-fi service Having arrived in Singapore during the late afternoon, I went for a walk to help my body... [30 Jul 2009]
