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

Comment And by all means they should keep looking everywhere except at the older generation. The latest in the debate over music downloaders and sharers also got a lots of comments, while women in IT - or lack of them - sparked a huge debate.

Tags: file-sharers, home office, women

[17 Apr 2008]

People are mugs over identity theft

Comment That news may well find favour beyond the present generation of Linux programmers and the traditional Information Taliban. Identity theft is rife. Perhaps it's time individuals took a leaf out of business's book and adopted a personal information...

Tags: social networks, fraud, identity theft, security

[08 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for the truth

Comment It threatens the generation of content and the provision of a valued service. Over the past few years I must have seen a dozen new search engines claiming to be the answer to a maiden's prayer. Each has been based on single, or combined, parameter...

Tags: artificial intelligence, search, web 2.0

[31 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation

Comment It threatens the generation of content and the provision of a valued service. We now have in our midst a new generation who are becoming radio- and TV- free. Written on JetBlue 0038 flying from JFK to Rochester NY, and dispatched via a free hotel...

Tags: television, revenue, radio, broadcast

[26 Mar 2008]

LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking

Comment N is for Next generation N is for Next generation During 2007, LinkedIn doubled in size in all of its major regions including Europe and signed up its millionth UK member in October, making Blighty the largest market outside the US.silicon.com...

Tags: linkedin, network, online, facebook

[28 Feb 2008]

Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation

Comment The next generation of usage and users are going to download videos, stream soaps and so on and it's not speed that matters. Mary Turner heads up the operations of ISP Tiscali UK, occupying the CEO's chair since September 2003.

Tags: bandwidth, broadband, tiscali, talking

[21 Feb 2008]

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...

Tags: music, web 2.0, industry, web

[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.

Tags: india, bpo, skills, offshore

[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...

Tags: nasscom, india, outsourcing, offshore

[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...

Tags: outsourcing, tupe, accenture, public sector

[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...

Tags: wi-fi, mobile, laptops, thin client

[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...

Tags: artificial intelligence, christmas, applications, play

[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.

Tags: mobile, spectrum, wireless, next generation

[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...

Tags: itanium, servers, chips, named

[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

Tags: skills, e-learning, management, education

[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.

Tags: new media, convergence, video, internet

[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.

Tags: security, botnets, trojans, viruses

[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...

Tags: internet, saas, hosting, networks

[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...

Tags: government, home office, mobiles, apple

[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.

Tags: social networking, management, skills, discover

[29 Oct 2007]

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