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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Moving office
Comment Broadband, wired and wireless LANs, analogue and digital TV went in a treat. Written at my hotel in Orlando during a weekend stopover between assignments. Dispatched to silicon.com via free wi-fi from the unreal atrium of a world only possible, it... [11 Jul 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Jammers not listeners
Comment We are building a wireless world - everything from car keys to mice, keyboards, LANs to telephones, positioning systems, ID and security systems are all wireless. Written and edited on the M5 between Bristol and Birmingham and dispatched from a... [28 Feb 2006]
Leader: Lessons from Aramiska's failure
Leader Some community broadband groups used Aramiska for backhaul, typically stringing together groups of homes and businesses using wireless LANs. The sudden failure of satellite broadband provider Aramiska at the end of last week once again focuses... [01 Feb 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: VoIP wins
Comment I've connected to the internet via wired or Wi-Fi LANs in hotels, office buildings and restaurants. After a personal trial, Peter Cochrane has found VoIP makes mobile working cheaper and easier than ever. [17 Feb 2005]
Leader: VoIP comes of age
Leader Mobile operators look to be next up for the VoIP challenge, as the technology starts to be used over wireless LANs. Voice over IP is hardly new. It's been lauded for years as a way for businesses to save money on long-distance and international... [08 Feb 2005]
Wireless: The new hotspot for VoIP
Comment GoRemote allows users to log on to wireless, dial-up or wired LANs from different providers with a single sign-on and receive a unified bill. Just as voice over IP is becoming widely used over wired connections, the technology is also starting to... [18 Jan 2005]
CIO Agenda: The 2005 technology shopping list
Comment Steve Ritchie, CIO at Investcorp, said it's still a little way off while Bill Gibbons, CIO at Abbey Group, said the benefits of wireless LANs will continue to be over-hyped in 2005. To find out, we polled 12 members of silicon.com's CIO Jury about... [14 Dec 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Out-of-the-box options
Comment Switches that control the traffic on local area networks (LANs) and routers that connect LANs to each other forming wide area networks (WANs) have been around for years. With widespread adoption of the internet in the 1990s, routers were... [09 Jul 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Free net access for all
Comment On corporate LANs and WANs in the UK I find reasonable speeds of up to 2Mbps, but for the poor old UK broadband home customer the average connection speed is not 256Kbps to 560Kbps as advertised, but as slow as a mere 33Kbps due to the contention... [17 Jun 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking... VPN remote access
Comment We have GPRS, dial-up via local access points, Wi-Fi hotspots as well as IPSec VPNs which provided access across any connection including third-party LANs (providing their firewalls were not too stringently configured). [15 Jan 2004]
Leader: Permission the key to Bluespamming and GSM tracking
Leader How strangers push information to our most personal devices is a touchy subject.silicon.com readers have in the past spoken out against spam texted to mobile phones over SMS (Bluejacking could also be termed texting, we've been told) and use of... [26 Nov 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Holistic security
Comment From the laptop and PC through Wi-Fi, wired LANs, servers, ISPs, networks, mainframes and storage, the concentration of interest is in viruses, worms, Trojan horses and all forms of cyber-attack. A one-dimensional, internet-centric approach to... [26 Nov 2003]
Leader: What Yahoo's video rewind tells us
Leader The former suffers from lack of penetration via DSL, cable or satellite, the latter from firewall configurations and IT departments wary of carrying gigabytes of video over critical LANs. Although yesterday's announcement from Yahoo! [31 Oct 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Itanium 2, managing LANs and the Info Pro
Comment There are some words that periodically turn up in news articles and vendor marketing material. This is likely to be one of those occasions as last week saw vendor Intel introduce the latest products in its Itanium 2 family of 64 bit processors. [16 Sep 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: DIY v DIFM networks
Comment B2B activity enjoys high-speed networking across corporate LANs and has expanded world trade while simultaneously realising vast operational savings. Most types of successful networks have seen an element of end user innovation, says Peter Cochrane. [26 Jun 2003]
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