hollywood in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Robots with guns
Comment In the meantime the sci-fi industry, with Hollywood's help, has had a ball with robot-based stories such as Terminator, I, Robot et al. Written at a quiet café on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK and dispatched to silicon.com via a corporate WLAN [07 Aug 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Hollywood fears the geek
Comment Techies are now so feared by the public they are being cast as the master-villains in Hollywood blockbusters, says Steve Ranger. So having a geek super-villain means Hollywood reckons a large proportion of the cinema-going public are now jealous... [18 Jul 2007]
Yahoo! gives in to 'Google envy'
Comment After underwhelming the only reviewers who really matter these days, the MBAs on Wall Street, the (now very wealthy) Hollywood guy gets to wave goodbye to Silicon Valley's geeks and return to hang with his old showbiz buddies in Bel Air. [19 Jun 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: VoIP reality check
Comment Hollywood understood this relationship early on and it still drives the industry towards the joint goals of higher-definition pictures, special effects and surround sound. Written at home and dispatched to silicon.com from a free wi-fi node in... [26 Mar 2007]
Leader: Good news for CIOs and techies
Leader IT pros have been told they need to sign Hollywood-style agents to find them cushy jobs and negotiate their contracts - a long way from where they were 10 years ago, circling adverts in the newspaper. [20 Oct 2006]
Minority Report: Apple in your living room
Comment By comparison the recent Unbox movie download service from Amazon has a catalogue of well over 1,000 movies and TV shows from six major Hollywood studios and several independent studios and TV networks. [09 Oct 2006]
Leader: How Europe learned to stop worrying and love PCs
Leader What has Hollywood been telling us for decades? If the public has lost its fear of computers, maybe it's time for Hollywood to come up with some better role models for the next generation of techies - and their computers. [20 Jun 2006]
3GSM Diary: Ballmer n Branson, O2 guerrillas and Craig David
Comment This writer knows nothing about Blogstar but it carries the strap 'Hollywood goes mobile! You know a tech show has heated up when you leave a session having witnessed Steve Ballmer getting all excited and Virgin boss Richard Branson joking around... [15 Feb 2006]
Minority Report: Disney, Pixar and Apple - what happens next
Comment More significantly, the move cements Jobs' position as the most influential business leader in the ongoing convergence of content and online delivery and establishes him as a major Hollywood player (to coin the industry parlance) as the film... [03 Feb 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The MP3 Wars, part 2
Comment Written and edited on BA 219 flying London to Denver and dispatched via a free hotel wi-fi service in Boulder, Colorado Just when we might have thought the MP3 wars were over and all the problems had gone away, up pops a new point of vexation for... [27 Jan 2006]
Terry Semel
AS Profile Hollywood-veteran-turned-online-tycoon Terry Semel has proved to be the indefatigable driving force behind this revival. Yahoo! is back, big time. The company has gone from strength to strength since its stock reached an all-time low during the... [23 Sep 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Goodbye TV?
Comment But it still damaged the movie houses and impacted Hollywood for quite a while. It has also become the mainstay of Hollywood sales via VHS and DVDs. Written in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, via free Wi-Fi [09 Sep 2005]
Las Vegas cheat-busting: The truth about tech detection
Comment The stuff they show on TV regarding visual recognition is mostly Hollywood," said Stanley. "The house always wins". Whatever films or books you may have seen or read about beating the Las Vegas casinos - through fair means or foul - reality will... [19 Aug 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Hollywood's real threat
Comment Might it be that bands of amateur moviemakers usurp Hollywood in the future? From a London hotel with free Wi-Fi and LAN I have always felt that death comes from a direction we are not looking, by a mechanism we don't contemplate and at a time that... [07 Jul 2005]
Leader: Is file-sharing sacking too heavy-handed?
Leader He was invited because he had been served legal papers earlier this year by Hollywood film body the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), accusing his DVD-Core website of being a BitTorrent hub that encouraged and facilitated illegal file... [04 Jul 2005]
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