definition in comment and analysis
Editor's Blog: Moving bits
Comment As uSwitch.com and others point out, what is the definition of the term 'excessive'? It's the day before our office move over the long weekend (more on that in a moment) but it seems moving bits of the digital variety is much bigger news still. [05 Apr 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: VoIP reality check
Comment Hollywood understood this relationship early on and it still drives the industry towards the joint goals of higher-definition pictures, special effects and surround sound. Add a good video channel and a life-size high-definition display and you... [26 Mar 2007]
Plugging and preventing data leaks
Comment For example there needs to be a single personnel system, single definition of job functions and a process to track people who change jobs. However companies need to put adequate controls in place before sharing information freely. [07 Mar 2007]
Editor's Blog: Don't knock e-government until you've tried it
Comment A definition lost on some public servants. I've had some good experiences with e-government, with my local council, in recent months. And they're perhaps even better in my mind when I compare them to more routine interactions with those we pay to... [17 Nov 2006]
Julie Meyer: Microsoft v Sony: A fight to the death?
Comment The delay is due to Sony making the Blu-ray drive (next generation high capacity and high definition DVD format) central to the PS3; they are having problems building them in quantity. It does not sport High Definition output like the others but... [14 Nov 2006]
Leader: Videoconferencing stepping up a gear
Leader Conferencing stalwart Polycom also chose yesterday to talk about "the industry's only complete high-definition communications and collaboration solution", UltimateHD. Cisco has developed a patented, clever codec to transmit all the high-definition... [24 Oct 2006]
Bruce Perens
AS Profile Author of The Open Source Definition, a self-described "bill of rights for the computer user", Perens has been instrumental in turning open source software from a hobby into a business. Why? Carrying the open source flag [25 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Good-bye CDs
Comment The really interesting arena is in the next transition - from DVD (~9GB) to a much higher definition version (~50GB). And so, as the new higher definition DVDs take hold, the cost of DVDs can be expected to fall rapidly too. [14 Jul 2006]
Brampton Factor: You call this an information society?
Comment This claim is highly suspect, and depends on a technical, and largely meaningless, definition of 'information'. Martin Brampton debunks the idea that we live in an information society - and even if we did, he says, it wouldn't provide all the... [20 Jun 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Telecoms - get creative
Comment Depending on the reference source you use, the old and established definition of a commodity goes something like this: It seems to me that we find commodity items and services useful by definition! Perhaps an updated definition of a commodity might... [12 Jun 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The GDP threat
Comment After degrading the broadband definition to much less than 2Mbps, and endlessly wondering why people would want more, and what would they do with it, governments, regulators, telcos, cable cos and ISPs are starting to realise the Japanese and... [05 May 2006]
Analysis: Making web 2.0 pay
Comment Though it lacks a precise definition, web 2.0 generally refers to web services that let people collaborate and share information online. There's been a boom in so-called web 2.0 companies and Google et al have been scooping up a raft of innovative... [14 Mar 2006]
Analysis: What is a smart phone?
Comment Analyst house Gartner gives the definition of a smart phone as: "A large-screen, data-centric, handheld device designed to offer complete phone functions whilst simultaneously functioning as a personal digital assistant (PDA). [13 Feb 2006]
Leader: Don't be fooled by Blair's "cardboard" ID compromise
Leader The government is very much still planning to try and force through its original flawed and costly ID cards plans - as evidenced by the broad definition of ID fraud used by the Home Office last week to back up their claim that it costs the UK... [10 Feb 2006]
Inside Kaspersky Labs: AV at the cold heart of Russia
Comment Within 15 minutes, as hands move at lightning speed over the keyboard, a definition will be available, claims team leader Eugene Kaspersky, who co-founded the company in 1997. It's -40°c outside as I'm driven through the barren, ice-bound outskirts... [25 Jan 2006]
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