analogue
RSS analogueMake haste with the analogue-digital switch, urges EC
News The European Commission has called for EU members to speed their switchover to digital television, and therefore in the process free up spectrum, which can then be used for broadband services. Viviane Reding, information society and... [30 Oct 2009]
Microsoft 'White-Fi' to solve interference worries in white space
News Microsoft researchers may have taken a step closer to finally turning unused analogue TV spectrum, known as "white spaces", into unlicensed spectrum that can be used to deliver new wireless broadband services. [20 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Digital TV too annoying to watch?
Comment Unlike analogue systems, digital has 'cliff-like' failure characteristics. After all digital broadcasting is the same old analogue stuff served up with a few extra 'bells and whistles' - each of which... [11 Aug 2009]
Digital Britain: Treasury's Timms set to be next broadband ambassador?
News The report also called for a 2Mbps universal minimum broadband speed to be implemented across the UK, although this is intended to be funded by money left over from the analogue-to-digital switchover. [04 Aug 2009]
'Europe needs its own clouds to fight US domination'
News Reding also urged EU governments to speed up the switchover from analogue to digital broadcast services. European clouds should be set up within the next five years to encourage small business take-up of on-demand IT... [09 Jul 2009]
Cheat sheet: Project Canvas
Cheat Sheet Freeview brought digital TV to people who didn't want to go down the route of subscription TV - by signing up with Sky and Virgin Media for example - but wanted to move on from analogue TV, set to be phased out by 2012. [23 Jun 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Why are we so wasteful?
Comment Going back a few decades to our analogue technology beginnings, the focus was on efficiency of bandwidth, power, components and physical effort. As a young man I worked in a number of 'mom and pop' stores and small... [28 May 2009]
'The web is getting into our DNA'
Comment With a decade in the CIO's chair behind him, Dobb has been witness to a transformation at the broadcaster which has seen it change from a single channel, analogue broadcaster into a multiplatform, multichannel company... [18 Mar 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Face-off with a hotel TV
Comment So I am offered analogue TV, digital TV, cable, satellite, video on demand, internet access and IPTV - all on one box that looks innocent enough. Compiled in my San Bruno, California, hotel room. Dispatched the next day... [23 Feb 2009]
Design, Construction, and Testing of a Novel Robotic Workstation
White Paper These configurations allow users to define their physical workspace as well as to situate computer and analogue tools precisely to support a broad range of work-and-leisure computing activities. This paper describes the... [05 Feb 2009]
Broadband for all: A shot in the arm for egov
News We have to ensure that fairness and access for all is more than a soundbite," Lord Carter said, adding: "[Then] we get to a point whereby we can genuinely start writing business plans for the universal delivery of public services through... [14 Jan 2009]
The Application of Genetic Programming to General Purpose GPU Computation
White Paper The fitness of the individual is determined by interpreting the values of the bit vector in the context of the problem domain - effectively the analogue of the biological phenotype mapping from DNA. Genetic programming... [09 Jan 2009]
Dictation Keeps Things Running Smoothly
White Paper Until recently, Glasgow City Council relied on analogue tapes for their dictation needs. The tapes, however, did not accommodate themselves to the busy lives of councillors and their office staff. Realising the... [24 Dec 2008]
Managing Dictations From Multiple Clinics
White Paper Analogue dictations just didn't make sense in that environment. Ninewells' Oncology Department in NHS Tayside has the challenge of handling reports and results from a number of clinics in outlying locations. [24 Dec 2008]
Making XQuery Control Structures Work for You: The XQuery Language Is the XML Analogue of SQL, Designed to Augment XPath 2.0 by Working With Sets of Values, Not Just With Single Scalar Values
White Paper A database programmer who had spent some time working with an early XQuery implementation, once referred to the language as the smiley language. When the author asked whether that had to do with the simplicity of the language, the... [30 Nov 2008]
