download in comment and analysis
The Round-Up: 05.10.07
Round-Up Cheery, cheeky popsters Radiohead have decided to make their new album available for download from their website and the band - no strangers to experimental howling musical adventures - have allowed fans to choose their own price for the album. [05 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: Ranking everything
Comment I'm working from home today and have compared my download/upload speeds over a home PC and a work laptop, both connected by Ethernet cables to the same router - rather than wi-fi, in the laptop's case, which I know would be slower. [13 Sep 2007]
Escape the data management minefield
Comment In a recent case Newcastle City Council's computer systems allowed the download of 54,000 customer credit card records. The public sector's data management is looking increasingly like Swiss cheese - full of holes. [13 Sep 2007]
Who pays your broadband bill?
Comment For a more detailed look at the issues surrounding corporate telecoms, including employees working from home over broadband, download the "Convergence or confusion" report for free from the Quocirca website. [21 Aug 2007]
Leader: BBC iPlayer broadband row - who's really to blame
Leader Claims by ISPs that the BBC should fund the extra bandwidth needed by users that want to download content from its online TV service iPlayer seems a little out of touch. Added to this, the programmes take around half an hour to download so a lot... [16 Aug 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The power of analogy - or not
Comment The time to download a medium-sized VHS quality movie: Alternatively, the time to download an average novel of around 1Mb: Written on BA217 flying London to Washington and dispatched to silicon.com from my hotel via a low cost wi-fi service [09 May 2007]
Editor's Blog: Moving bits
Comment A month ago, price comparison outfit uSwitch.com did some research on UK service providers and wasn't happy with the number (almost all of them) that claim to offer 'unlimited broadband' - meaning there is no cap on the amount you cumulatively... [05 Apr 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.03.07
Round-Up Full details on how to download or subscribe to the Round-Up podcast can be found at the bottom of this email. When the Round-Up finally curls up its toes and heads to the great press party in the sky, it would like to think it could look back on a... [16 Mar 2007]
Leader: Why are we so unhappy with fat pipes?
Leader And those on such free services have also found themselves saddled with the smallest download limits and slowest speeds for their trouble, as ISPs try and persuade users to upgrade. Back in the heady late 90s, broadband was for the rich and tech... [28 Feb 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: Where are all the QRs?
Comment If you download some QR reading software onto your mobile, you should be able to take a snap and convert the code into text - and read my 'secret' message to you. No? Neither have many other people in the UK, apparently. [06 Feb 2007]
Leader: iPhone for the enterprise
Leader There's no 3G in the iPhone, which will doubtless prove an annoyance to those who need to download attachments or handle significant amounts of email in a business day. The long-awaited, much discussed iPhone has finally launched to the cooing of... [10 Jan 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.12.06
Round-Up With that much memory you could just download the entire iTunes Store. When Romantic poet, artist and serial loon William Blake waxed lyrical in Auguries of Innocence about seeing "a world in a grain of sand" he was probably referring to witnessing... [15 Dec 2006]
Minority Report: Will the iPhone save the iPod?
Comment For instance, an iPhone would almost certainly be accompanied by a move to make iTunes content available for direct download to the device - and the distribution of music and other media over mobiles hasn't exactly boomed. [10 Nov 2006]
Minority Report: Apple in your living room
Comment By comparison the recent Unbox movie download service from Amazon has a catalogue of well over 1,000 movies and TV shows from six major Hollywood studios and several independent studios and TV networks. [09 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Poking CIOs with a stick
Comment You can also download my Power Point slides for the presentation here. You can download my Power Point slides for the wrap-up session here. I have been attending the annual silicon.com CIO Forum for the past few years and this year it was my job to... [02 Oct 2006]
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