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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 columnist Peter... [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 printer, copier,... [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]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Three clicks away from eight million people
Comment Compiled at the IoD and various hotels in London over several days, polished on TG409 flying Bangkok to Singapore, and dispatched to silicon.com via my hotel LAN shortly after arrival. All civilisations have been critically dependent... [23 Jul 2009]