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Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die...

Comment That 1TB storage unit my son built with four 250GB hard drives in a PC frame at a cost of £3,000 just eight years ago can now be replaced by a much smaller box complete with power supply and all interfaces for a mere £130.

Tags: storage, innovation, technology costs

[14 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…

Comment I've still got my Spectrum in a box in the attic! My oldest machine, a Powermac pizza box, bought in 1994 still works as a mail server. Comments came flying in on this, some cheering for the winner, while some were a little miffed their favourite...

Tags: mac, zx spectrum, rfid

[24 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'

Comment Breach of copyright is a whole different box of frogs, since no one will ever die or be physically injured as a result of it. The latest in the debate over music downloaders and sharers also got a lots of comments, while women in IT - or lack of...

Tags: file-sharers, home office, women

[17 Apr 2008]

Box-tickers risk serious data breaches

Comment At the heart of the debate lies the disparity between the box-tickers, who do just enough to satisfy the regulators, and those who put in extra effort, says Mark Lobel, principal in advisory services at consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Tags: risk, data leaks, security, compliance

[28 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation

Comment Written on JetBlue 0038 flying from JFK to Rochester NY, and dispatched via a free hotel wi-fi service. When I was a child there was no television. Radio was strictly LW, MW and SW. My oldest children can remember black-and-white TV but there were...

Tags: television, revenue, radio, broadcast

[26 Mar 2008]

Virtualisation cuts carbon and servers

Comment It depends on what hardware you're consolidating," says Martin Niemer, senior product marketing manager for EMEA at virtualisation pioneer VMware, who argues that IT departments will be able to squeeze more productive CPU cycles from one box than...

Tags: green, data centres, servers, virtualisation

[21 Dec 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The last CD

Comment My latest terabyte cost just less than £200 complete in a box with power supply and interfaces. Ask yourself this simple question: when was the last time you burned a CD and can you even remember the floppy disk?

Tags: broadband, mobility, hardware, memory

[25 Oct 2007]

Luis von Ahn

AS Profile Described as a "real guy to watch" by one of the panel, Luis Von Ahn is one of the people to blame for those little boxes filled with hard-to-read letters that you have to type into a box when you sign up for websites.

[12 Oct 2007]

James Murdoch

AS Profile The judges were impressed with the introduction of the Sky+ Box home hub, which could compete with the PC server's position in the consumer market as a single device for music, video and internet access.

[12 Oct 2007]

Interview: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain

Interview: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain

Comment Is this the 'Tesco in a box' project? In this exclusive interview with silicon.com, Tesco group IT director Colin Cobain - just crowned CIO of the year at the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards 2007 - talks about the supermarket giant's...

Tags: colin cobain, tesco

[25 Sep 2007]

Editor's Blog: Ranking everything

Comment If this list (see grey box below) considered green credentials, who'd come out top? I noticed a story this morning about the favourite brands in the UK. It wasn't dominated by big tech and internet names - think Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook.

Tags: ipod, brands, broadband

[13 Sep 2007]

Data breach laws 'make companies serious about security'

Comment Earlier this month an influential House of Lords committee said the introduction of a data breach law in the UK would be one of the most important advances the UK could make to improve internet security, and silicon.com recently launched its Full...

Tags: law, data, full disclosure

[03 Sep 2007]

It's not easy being green

Comment The IT industry is jumping on the green energy bandwagon. But, asks Quocirca's Clive Longbottom, how effective are the tactics they're promoting? Green is the new black, it would seem. With many organisations now trying to 'out-green' the...

Tags: alternative energy, energy crisis, green it

[25 Jul 2007]

Retail CIOs aiming to ditch legacy of IT complexity

Comment A prime example of this trend is global retail giant Tesco, which recently unveiled its plan for a standard set of processes and technologies - dubbed 'Tesco in a box' - that it will be able to use at any of its global sites.

Tags: cio50, retail, cios

[02 Jul 2007]

Data centre in a box

Comment The payload does not have to be Sun hardware - there is nothing to stop you filling the racks with gear from competing vendors as long as it fits within the 200 kilowatts power and cooling limit of the box.

Tags: sun, data centre

[18 Jun 2007]

Minority Report: Steve Jobs fails to wow

Comment Thirdly, Apple, like Mozilla, generates significant revenues from Google by having the search giant's search box integrated into its browser. Despite the hoopla over the iPhone and iPod, Apple struggles to drum up excitement over its core Mac...

Tags: iphone, mac os x, leopard, steve jobs

[15 Jun 2007]

Retail CIOs aiming to ditch legacy of IT complexity

CIO Analysis A prime example of this trend is global retail giant Tesco, which recently unveiled its plan for a standard set of processes and technologies - dubbed 'Tesco in a box' - that it will be able to use at any of its global sites.

Tags: post office, ric francis, retail

[06 Jun 2007]

Colin Cobain

CIO Profile As part of this global expansion, Tesco is now aiming to simplify the business by rolling out standardised business processes and IT systems across its international operations - a hugely ambitious programme, dubbed 'Tesco in a box'.

[06 Jun 2007]

Freecycle Diaries: Serendipity at last

Comment I assemble the ragbag assortment of items left on the table and compose what sounds like the ingredients for a BBC home makeover show… x TDK FE90 blank cassette tapes (unopened) x clip frames (1 x 6"x4", 2 x 7"x5") x boxes of glass baubles...

[08 May 2007]

Opinion: Global services' level playing-field

Comment When you open the box on that beautiful new Apple computer the first words emblazoned on the wrapping paper are 'Designed by Apple in California', yet hidden away on the bottom of the box is the innocuous statement 'Assembled in China'.

Tags: infosys, tcs, wipro, india

[02 May 2007]

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