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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]

The ISO is right to back Microsoft's OOXML

Comment But the exchanges have been particularly highly charged because the outcome has hard-nosed commercial implications. OOXML is thus a natural vehicle for organisations to look to as they drive more towards XML-based storage for documents.

Tags: xml, office, microsoft, standards

[04 Apr 2008]

Outsourcing - life after the contract

Comment As the European Strategy Services Unit report demonstrates, the hard work begins once the outsourcing contract has been signed. The all-too-common assumption is that once the contract has been signed, the hard work is over.

Tags: contracts, legal, outsourcing, objectives

[12 Mar 2008]

Why you should be outsourcing your data centres

Comment Capital costs and the drive for cost flexibility Global companies have understood for years that managing the complexities of running a global IT organisation is hard - without needing to become experts on real estate, infrastructure management and...

Tags: data centre, outsourcing, green, advances

[04 Feb 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Getting thinner fast

Comment Other innovations include a wider trackpad with a slew of new interface innovations and the offer of an optional solid-state replacement to the ubiquitous hard drive. First it was the floppy drive, then the IrDA port, quickly followed by PCMCIA slot.

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

[28 Jan 2008]

Dear silicon.com... More data breaches and Google vs Wikipedia…

Comment Twenty or so years ago losing a hard disk drive containing citizen information would not have been possible without a truck. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site.

Tags: driver, google, hmrc, encryption

[20 Dec 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The last CD

Comment When travelling internationally I carry a mirror of my laptop in the form of a 120GB pocket hard drive stashed in my luggage, while at home I enjoy several terabytes. Most people I know now travel with a memory stick and an MP3 player or pocket drive.

Tags: broadband, mobility, hardware, memory

[25 Oct 2007]

Dear silicon.com... McInternet, FON in the UK, safety first, e-fraud...

Comment the chance of doing a few drive throughs for a coffee and some connectivity. Or document formats that are themselves a kind of encoding to make it hard to read them except in the program that made them.

Tags: bt, wi-fi, fon

[11 Oct 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 07.09.07

Round-Up There was a deafening cheer from Microsoft's marketing legions this week as the news broke that the Zune now stands a good chance of making serious inroads into the hard drive-based MP3 player market currently dominated by the iPod.

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[07 Sep 2007]

Television 2.0 cometh

Comment The biggest competitive challenge is the need to drive the per-household cost of installation down to the point where it is cost-effective to deploy to millions of households. These challenges are being actively addressed today by every member of...

Tags: internet video, quadruple play, iptv

[04 Jul 2007]

Leader: Save the world - stay at home

Leader As flexible working grows, so will workers dependence on public transport - after all, while it's hard to work at the wheel of a car, it's not hard to do so on a train seat, especially now wi-fi is increasingly available on the UK's public...

Tags: teleworking, mobile working, remote working, flexible working

[04 May 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security twitch

Comment So, should you get up and walk away from your laptop or PC the screen goes blank and the hard drive is locked down as soon as you are more than three to five metres away. Written in Dublin after a long working day and dispatched from Lower Ufford...

Tags: pda, device security, laptop, mobile phone

[11 Apr 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 26.01.07

Round-Up The Round-Up finds it hard enough to drive while balancing a plate of hot food and a can of beer, without other drivers further complicating matters during the morning rush hour. Rob Chapman, CEO of The Training Camp, said: "Despite numerous...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[26 Jan 2007]

Leader: Why Vista's going to be a hard sell

Leader Businesses will no doubt be reassured by features such as BitLocker, which encrypts data on the hard drive, anti-spyware tools and access and authentication controls. Improved productivity from better search, and from the collaboration features in...

Tags: windows vista, vista

[30 Nov 2006]

Q&A: Microsoft UK MD Gordon Frazer

Comment We also see massive improvements in security because BitLocker enables you to encrypt the contents of your hard-drive. Microsoft's new UK MD, Gordon Frazer, has been in his role for just over three months after relocating from South Africa, where...

Tags: gordon frazer, microsoft

[03 Nov 2006]

Minority Report: Apple in your living room

Comment Apple plans to sell it in the US for $299.iTV may also allow you to download content directly - Disney's Iger hinted as much during a Goldman Sachs conference shortly after the iTV pre-announcement, when he let slip that the device has a hard...

Tags: movie downloads, itv, apple

[09 Oct 2006]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Budgets made simple

Comment Can we use a single set of figures to control costs and drive performance improvements? It is hard to understand the rationale behind the figures The latest acronym in business applications - CPM - promises to make budgeting a bit less painful.

Tags: budgeting, business intelligence

[06 Oct 2006]

Leader: Nokia pulls an Apple

Leader And, like Apple, Nokia is a gorilla of the tech world - when you sell a third of the world's phones, you can drive a hard bargain for getting content with the sort of pricing and rights deals that customers and CFOs might like.

[10 Aug 2006]

Why does Sharon Stone use Mitel?

Comment According to Nate Elliott, analyst at JupiterResearch, the advent of PVRs - devices such as the TiVo, which allow individuals to record vast amounts of TV easily to a hard drive - means more and more of us are skipping traditional ads, forcing...

Tags: mitel, product placement, nokia, cisco

[01 Aug 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Good-bye CDs

Comment Average file sizes were growing in response to computers' bigger hard drives, larger quantities of RAM and greater operating system speeds. And finally, the leading machine designers dropped the floppy drive facility from PCs and laptops in favour...

Tags: blueray, hd dvd, floppy disc, cd

[14 Jul 2006]

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