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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last
Comment In some instances I had five active CRT screens as my workspace, backed up by the most powerful computers available at the time. Written while flying from London to Rome and dispatched on arrival at my hotel via a 3G HSDPA data service. [22 Jul 2008]
iPhone 3G, terrorists and tech, file sharers vs ISP
Comment I tried three more times during the day on two computers with two different browsers. It seems seven days can't pass without the government giving our readers something to rant about… see why one reader thinks we're in "deep sh*t" below. [15 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Quality by design
Comment People were apparently crammed into hot and dirty offices with broken chairs, and generally poor accommodation standards including trailing wires, a lack of new paint, and computers and screens that looked as though they were scrap-heap souvenirs. [09 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment If schools used and taught computers using open source software then perhaps students would see the possibilities in a career in IT. Instead of teaching important stuff, like how computers work, what's inside the box, how to put one together, what... [03 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com... dirty computers, lie detectors, T5 tech, mobile ASBOs
Comment Dirty computers This week, readers get worked up over rude mobile users - should they be slapped with an ASBO? Also, dirty NHS keyboards get an airing, benefit cheats hunted out with lie detectors and the T5 "tech not to blame" fiasco all attracted... [15 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08
Round-Up Faced with a 30 June deadline to stop shipping computers with Windows XP, the world's PC makers are getting creative. Technically, the computers will be Vista Business or Vista Ultimate machines that have been factory downgraded to XP at the... [02 May 2008]
Are we losing the security war?
Comment Today, I look at my slide deck from Milan and see that we have entire internet relay chat networks controlled by the criminal underground economy, that cyber crime could be almost as big as the value of the global illegal drug trade - no one... [29 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…
Comment I would have liked to complete your survey of "what was your first home computer" but it only lists computers from the early to mid 1980s, ignoring the fact that home computing actually started in the late 1970s, with computers such as the Nascom... [24 Apr 2008]
Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket
Comment That growth is partly because smart operating systems are filtering down from desktop computers and laptops into handheld middle-tier devices, as users demand that desktop and internet applications bridge the divide between computer and phone. [23 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum
Comment For some younger members of the team we had to explain that in the golden age of home computers the idea was you could actually use these - at the time very expensive - pieces of hardware to create your own programs. [22 Apr 2008]
Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user
Comment Its hardware and software, its case designs for laptops, desktops and other computers form the focus of its marketing. The Macs don't suffer in comparison with other computers because they look good. Mac bashers fall back on the same old arguments... [17 Apr 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment I refer to the latest threat report from Symantec, they are seeing a shift away from hacking individual computers to web-based threats. Scott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer hacking and botnet attacks by criminals, terrorists and... [15 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: Time for 'listed' computers?
Comment It's some old news that has me fascinated this week. Really old news. Ancient even.silicon.com has been to visit Bletchley Park, home of the World War II codebreakers and Colossus - the world's first electronic codebreaking machine - which smashed... [20 Mar 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment Compromised bot networks of personal computers continue to make headlines in greater numbers and with increasing sophistication and effectiveness. This month in the US one hacker pleaded guilty to creating a network of more than 400,000 computers... [27 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08
Round-Up The Seattle giant has also told users who encounter problems to turn their computers off and then on again, and if they still experience issues to upgrade their software or contact the appropriate vendor. [22 Feb 2008]
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