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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom

Comment Written during an intensely boring conference session and dispatched via a free wi-fi node outside Liverpool St Station in London later the same day. Between 10 and 20 years ago designers and architects made assumptions about the use of office...

Tags: data centres, green, energy, power

[16 May 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die...

Comment Written in a coffee shop in Ipswich UK and dispatched via a company wi-fi service. In the same vein I have attended conferences and company events over the past two years where the attendees have been given 4GB memory sticks, earphones, thumbprint...

Tags: storage, innovation, technology costs

[14 May 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity

Comment Dispatched via a free wi-fi service. First drafted on flight BA633 from Athens to London and finished on BA093 to Toronto a week later. Before 9/11, I regularly travelled the planet with a full toolkit as well as other objects that are now...

Tags: travel, airports, security

[29 Apr 2008]

Are we losing the security war?

Comment W is for Wi-fi Now security experts admit traditional approaches can't keep pace with the growth in malware. What can be done to turn the tide, asks Simon Moores. A short cyber crime story on Al Jazeera TV on Sunday made me realise that this year's...

Tags: security, e-crime, cyber crime

[29 Apr 2008]

Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities

Comment Office insights…   Flexibility the key for women in IT   Workers, wi-fi and coffee shops: The perfect blend   Wanted: Women must save IT industry   Long-hours tech culture hits morale  ...

Tags: cio agenda

[18 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays

Comment Written while flying from London to Greece on BA632 and dispatched from a free wi-fi service in Athens. It is now largely complete and, of course, bristles with technology: a new heating system, fire and burglar alarm, radio and TV, broadband and...

Tags: operating systems, software, design

[16 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food

Comment Copy dispatched via a free wi-fi hotel service in Athens. Written at London's Heathrow airport after a confused journey through the newly opened Terminal 5. If I could be God for a day there are many things I would put right for humanity and planet...

Tags: pilots, design, testing, t5

[14 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... iPlayer vs ISPs, rip off outsourcing, social networking…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Photos: Satellites free the roads from snow and ice ¦ The Naked CIO: Boardroom stereotypes ¦ silicon.com Classics: A London pub crawl… with...

Tags: isp, bbc, government, outsourcing

[10 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... T5 chaos, mobile maladies, and laptop losses…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Photos: High-tech Bangalore ¦ The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel ¦ Photos: Road testing wi-fi at 320kmph ¦ Peter Cochrane...

Tags: laptop, t5, heathrow, mobile

[03 Apr 2008]

Editor's Blog: My Freecycle identity crisis

Comment Here, silicon.com reporter Natasha Lomas road tests wi-fi on trains. Recently I had a bed I wanted to get rid of - one that was, I felt, too good to spend the next 1,000 years rotting in landfill. So I decided to have a go at Freecycling it instead...

Tags: email, avatar, identity, freecycle

[01 Apr 2008]

How did the Heathrow T5 launch go so wrong?

Comment Wi-fi at the airport To many, the travails of Heathrow's new Terminal 5 (T5) won't come as a huge surprise with the airport's infamous delays, lost baggage and struggling infrastructure often making the headlines.

Tags: airport, testing, baa, ba

[28 Mar 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08

Round-Up Passengers on select high-speed TGV trains in France travelling eastbound from Paris at speeds of up to 320kmph can enjoy a fledgling wi-fi service for free. The company envisages passengers being able to use the portal and onboard wi-fi to read up...

Tags: ofcom, wi-fi, train, plane

[28 Mar 2008]

Box-tickers risk serious data breaches

Comment W is for Wi-fi In reality, good security requires fundamental organisational change, says Danny Bradbury What constitutes good security today? Simply throwing a firewall at your system won't cut it, says Ross Anderson, professor of security...

Tags: risk, data leaks, security, compliance

[28 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... green carrots, cloud nine chats, open source ponderings …

Comment Surely wi-fi for laptop users would be sufficient? So, from the sinking ship of the carbon footprint to flying high and still being able to chat, readers let rip on the week's tech happenings. Sinking ships

Tags: green it, flight, mobile, open source

[27 Mar 2008]

The CIO shopping list

Comment Wi-fi is the hottest area within mobile and wireless, followed by "flexible/remote working" technology. Pressure to justify IT budgets and get better value for money from tech investment are the key issues driving tech spending over the next year...

Tags: cio agenda, tech, agenda, list

[26 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation

Comment Written on JetBlue 0038 flying from JFK to Rochester NY, and dispatched via a free hotel wi-fi service. When I was a child there was no television. Radio was strictly LW, MW and SW. My oldest children can remember black-and-white TV but there were...

Tags: television, revenue, radio, broadcast

[26 Mar 2008]

How to detect data leaks

Comment W is for Wi-fi Data leaks are a growing problem. Yet most firms don't know how sensitive data is getting out, let alone how to stop it. Tools exist to shore up those vulnerabilities, says Anthony Plewes.

Tags: security, data protection, data leaks, comply

[19 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars

Comment Written on flight VS003 from London to New York and dispatched via a free JetBlue wi-fi service at JFK airport. There are many theories about how one technology or brand wins the global market over another.

Tags: formats, blu-ray, dvd, storage

[17 Mar 2008]

Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up

Comment W is for Wi-fi Thieves hacked into the company's wi-fi network regularly between 2005 and 2007, stealing 45 million credit card details, many of which were UK customers. Putting a ring of steel around corporate data is only part of the answer.

Tags: threat, data theft, social engineering, security

[10 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Protestors clueless on wireless health risks

Comment Written in the bar of a London hotel and dispatched via a free wi-fi service from Canary Wharf in the capital's docklands. Schools, colleges and universities advise against - or even ban - the use of wi-fi, and services are closed down as a...

Tags: health risks, wi-fi, wimax, wireless

[04 Mar 2008]

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