spectrum in comment and analysis
Off the peg or tailor made?
Comment At one end of the supplier spectrum would be companies offering one-stop-shop hosted systems that are quick to deploy, flexible to use, easy to access and relatively low cost. Fundamental changes are afoot in enterprise apps. [16 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jelly
Comment The good news is that it can only all get better as we migrate further up the spectrum from 2.4GHz and 5GHz toward 60GHz and higher. You know how it is: you're in a coffee shop working online and using the free wi-fi service. [13 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.04.08
Round-Up The intro rather gave it away: it's the ZX Spectrum, that diminutive, rubber-keyed pixie of computational delight. Almost a third (31 per cent) of the more than 900 respondents in the silicon.com poll said the Spectrum - an eight-bit computer... [25 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…
Comment Winner: The ZX Spectrum! ZX Spectrum crowned king of computer classics Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket ¦ Peter... [24 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum
Comment This question formed the basis of our latest reader poll - which saw the ZX Spectrum voted as the most popular of the 10 pieces of antique hardware we listed. While many approved of the ZX Spectrum being crowned king - including one reader who... [22 Apr 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment There is the regular loss of confidential personal data by large companies and government agencies, such as HMRC, or, at the more sophisticated end of the spectrum, advanced identity theft from persistent bots and new exploits that seek to... [27 Feb 2008]
Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century
Comment The auction of the last great chunk of US broadcast spectrum gets under way in the new year. The availability of this prime communications spectrum is one of the biggest band grabs of the century heralding "truly next-generation advanced wireless... [17 Dec 2007]
Q&A: Graham Linehan, writer and director of The IT Crowd
Comment Either a ZX81 or a Spectrum. With the second series of The IT Crowd done and dusted, silicon.com caught up with Linehan to find out more about the show and his experiences with techies… silicon.com: Why do you think IT is funny? [12 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: Olympics as tech showcase?
Comment He mentioned there have been discussions in parliament and the DTI about freeing up spectrum, the idea being that by 2012 London - and by wider inference the UK - can show off its position in tech. I've written and read a lot in the past few years... [07 Feb 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.02.07
Round-Up The more sandal-inclined end of the political spectrum has raised concerns about the landfill effect of Vista and has blamed Microsoft's operating system for forcing consumers to ditch IT equipment in favour of more whiz-bang models which can cope... [02 Feb 2007]
Prepare for some 'digital tension'
Comment Where the European economy is concerned, the EU must support a regulatory environment to foster ICT investment, spectrum policy being a critical issue, Harbour pointed out. As global competition in IT picks up pace, Europe is being left behind. [27 Sep 2006]
Motorola gets serious about the enterprise
Comment Meanwhile Symbol sells switches that operate with the whole spectrum of spectrums, cellular and WiMax among them. Why did a handset maker splash out $3.9bn to buy a company that has created bar-code scanning technology? [21 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No more copper - fibre rules
Comment As a post-graduate student in the 1970s, I attended a broad selection of courses beyond the normal engineering and science spectrum on the basis that I would most likely have to manage people, money and projects at some time in my life. [07 Sep 2006]
Radioactive: Which way for wireless broadband?
Comment In the US, Sprint Nextel has a swathe of 2.5GHz spectrum that it must use by 2009 and WiMax is one of the technologies it is evaluating. The eventual choice mobile operators make with regards to wireless broadband will be governed by which spectrum... [27 Jul 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: More wireless equals more wires
Comment In the old wireless regime we carefully planned and limited the use of space and spectrum, and often completed extensive propagation and interference trials as part of that process. Bandwidth in the wireless spectrum is fundamentally limited, and... [04 May 2006]
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