You are here: silicon.com > Tags

50 stories on

job peter cochrane

Sort by: Date | Relevance


Dear silicon.com... dirty computers, lie detectors, T5 tech, mobile ASBOs

Comment ¦ The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group ¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die.¦ Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action If medical staff are still risking the lives of patients by not being clean then there...

Tags: rim, blackberry, nhs, mobile

[15 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity ¦ Video Cheat Sheet: Data Breaches ¦ Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain ¦ India's high-tech...

Tags: iphone, blackberry, femtocell, vista

[01 May 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays

Comment Our hardware is fast enough and does a good job but the software load is excessive. Written while flying from London to Greece on BA632 and dispatched from a free wi-fi service in Athens. Just over a year ago I undertook the complete renovation of...

Tags: operating systems, software, design

[16 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food

Comment The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe After that experience I'm sure they would go back to the drawing board and do a much better job. Copy dispatched via a free wi-fi hotel service in Athens. If I could be God for a day there are many things I...

Tags: pilots, design, testing, t5

[14 Apr 2008]

Android laid bare, dressing for success, grown up social networking...

News Peter Cochrane's Blog: Protestors clueless on wireless health risks iPhone on the Edge 'disappoints' Apple co-founder Even the spectre of a mobile phone mast outside your bedroom window is nothing to fear according to silicon.com's columnist Peter...

Tags: android, outsourcing, india, linkedin

[27 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation

Comment The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe 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.

Tags: television, revenue, radio, broadcast

[26 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars

Comment The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe 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]

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

Comment The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe Written in the bar of a London hotel and dispatched via a free wi-fi service from Canary Wharf in the capital's docklands. Scare stories about mobile phones cooking our brains come and go as regularly as the...

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

[04 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... HMRC search costs, Vista SP1 moans and fingerprints for visas…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Trying to explain ¦ From CIO to consultant: One year on ¦ Health warning to overweight IT managers ¦ Photos: Apple's...

Tags: hmrc, police, school, vista

[17 Jan 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Trying to explain

Comment It does a better job than I can. Written at my home in Suffolk UK and dispatched to silicon.com from the Wild Strawberry Café in Woodbridge which combines great coffee and cookies with free wi-fi Throughout my life I have stumbled upon wonderful...

Tags: video, www, wi fi, talk

[14 Jan 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Surfing at home, 'Big Brother' IT and batteries on planes…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Bill Gates Q&A: On why 'it's all about software' ¦ Cheat Sheet: CRM ¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Aerial bombardment ¦ IT at your service ...

Tags: plane, broadband, school, us

[10 Jan 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Data security... e-learning a bit of a bore?... ID cards debate... skip vista?

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jammers galore ¦ Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam ¦ Photos: Satellite mapping through clouds e...

Tags: vista, data, id cards, hmrc

[13 Dec 2007]

Dear silicon.com... cashless concerns, battle of the OSes, iPhone fans...

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Blind security ¦ Photos: Who's in the iPhone queue? Make it a right of all people, where a job makes it practical, to have...

Tags: os, governement, pm, iphone

[15 Nov 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Damn metrics

Comment Management by very large numbers of metrics always leads to a layered dishonesty where people do their job as best they can, and then report up what the system is demanding. About 20 years ago I was drawn into a public debate and enquiry on the...

Tags: education, metrics, peter cochrane, management

[28 Aug 2007]

Dear silicon.com... young and old, clueless managers, life without Facebook

Comment Peter Cochrane's Blog: Know-nothing managers Bravo Peter! Even better, we enjoyed getting the job done. The rest were macho numb-skulls with good teeth, a head for numbers, a loud mouth and an overwhelming desire to move on to the next job.

Tags: facebook, cyber crime, kids, ageism

[23 Aug 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Know-nothing managers

Comment Most managers had done the job, had worked their way up and understood the operations, technology and customer. Written at the Membury Service Station on the M4 Motorway whilst transiting from Cardiff to Woodbridge.

Tags: business skills, technical skills, management

[20 Aug 2007]

Email impossible to escape - even on holiday

News Read the latest missive from tech guru and silicon.com columnist, Peter Cochrane, as he blogs from around the world. According to research, holidays often take second place to the day job for a lot of IT managers, with many failing to take their...

Tags: blackberry, holiday, email

[02 Aug 2007]

Editor's Blog: The Facebook sweepstake

Comment Now quite a few of us like these kind of internet age uber-experiments but at a silicon.com editorial board dinner last night the subject came up of just how useful these networks are or will end up being.silicon.com columnist and well-known...

Tags: privacy, linkedin, facebook, social networking

[31 Jul 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: How I boosted my mobile signal

Comment Of course this involves a loss of gain from the optimum realized for TV use but for those enthusiastic enough, it is an easy job to trim down and reposition the elements according to the approximate shortening ratio 850/950 depending on the...

Tags: mobile signal

[18 Jul 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wi-fi radiation scare

Comment A new team of investigators got on the job but couldn't prove any link at all. Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched to silicon.com via the City of Westminster free (for a trial period) wi-fi service

Tags: peter cochrane, wi-fi health risk, wi-fi

[29 May 2007]

Sort by: Date | Relevance


Site Map    


Quick Sitemap Links: