generation in comment and analysis
How fans can grab a slice of the music pie
Comment N is for Next generation N is for Next generation Slicethepie has been running since June 2007 and gives music fans the opportunity to review new music and finance the bands they want to make it big. It also gives bands unprecedented access to... [18 Feb 2008]
Offshoring - not just about the costs
Comment Labour arbitrage is clearly one driver - but with predictions of a shortfall of 20 to 40 per cent in IT staff over the next five years as the US post-war baby boomers generation retire - it's also a move to ensure access to talent in coming years. [18 Feb 2008]
Indian IT outsourcers look ahead
Comment And APJ Abdul Kalam, the former president of India, set a vision of India's transformation from a global software powerhouse to a global knowledge systems powerhouse, at the heart of a global knowledge network devoted to driving the non-linear... [14 Feb 2008]
Why outsourcing divorce can end in tears…
Comment Many of the first-generation outsourcing contracts that were entered into in the 1990s have now expired or are coming to an end, especially IT outsourcing contracts. Lawyers are increasingly advising on second- and subsequent-generation outsourcing... [04 Feb 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Getting thinner fast
Comment During the past 15 years I have seen one generation of laptop after another get faster and more expansive with a consequential loss of facilities that just seems to go unnoticed. Written on the London-Ipswich train and sent via a wi-fi signal... [28 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Christmas wish list
Comment N is for Next generation Written at The Atlantic Hotel on the island of Jersey and dispatched via a free wi-fi service that actually needed no password - hurrah for common sense Every year of my life seems to have been challenging for one reason or... [20 Dec 2007]
Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century
Comment The availability of this prime communications spectrum is one of the biggest band grabs of the century heralding "truly next-generation advanced wireless services", according to FCC chairman Kevin Martin. [17 Dec 2007]
Itanium revisited - one year on
Comment Hardly mentioned at the Intel Developers Forum this September, the next-generation Itanium 9100 processor line, codenamed Montvale, was released in a strangely muted fashion in October. The next generation Itanium chip - due to arrive sometime in... [13 Dec 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Net education
Comment It seems ironic that our time of greatest technological advancement and wealth generation should coincide with falling education standards. Written at London Heathrow and dispatched from a free wi-fi service at London's Liverpool Street Station [06 Dec 2007]
Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier
Comment These deals and others have paved the way for new commercial tools and a generation of end-users making corporate digital media the lingua franca of the next decade. Experts argue new media will spell the demise of the IT professional. [29 Nov 2007]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment One of the most successful of this generation was the so-called Love Bug, which in 2000 reportedly infected 10 per cent of computers connected to the internet, deleting users' files and emailing itself to everyone in the address book. [19 Nov 2007]
Getting more out of the net
Comment One spin-off of this remote co-location is the ability to locate data centres near to power generation facilities. For many businesses, the internet is now their main wide area network resource. But how do you optimise performance over a public... [02 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... petty cash, Vista sales, swelling SMEs...
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com news editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Generation X ¦ Q&A: Ashley Highfield, head of BBC's Future Media and Technology unit ¦ The Brampton Factor: Chinese... [01 Nov 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Generation X
Comment Time to update my OS and see if I can master a new set of facilities and tricks dreamt up by a generation much younger than mine. Each generation was eager to pass on its skills and knowledge to the young to preserve crafts and skills. [29 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.10.07
Round-Up His position at the head of the list of technology's movers and shakers rather neatly ties in with the runner-up in last year's vote: the 'next generation'. In 2006, the Agenda Setters panel decided that the second spot should go to a whole... [19 Oct 2007]
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